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>Being controllable by one guy who does dumb stuff on a whim?

The entire twitterverse has been complaining loudly about how terrible twitter is for years before Musk considered buying it. The problems are inherent to the product-space, not the owner.

Musk simply came in and screwed with the brand. His ownership didn't really affect the toxicity of the platform as far as I can tell (although he has definitely contributed to it with his personal usage, e.g. dogecoin shilling). If anything, he actually took heat off the overall toxicity by shifting attention to his own actions.




> His ownership didn't really affect the toxicity of the platform as far as I can tell

This is not at all my experience. The new thing with the 'blue check' replies makes it much, much worse.

He let a bunch of right wing extremists back on, as well as various and sundry other bozos.

Now he's given Tucker Carlson, the guy Fox fired for being too racist, a platform again.




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