> Twitter being for-profit before the acquisition and Musk prioritizing profit less than his predecessors
Being unable to turn a profit is not the same as not prioritising profit.
If he’s so unconcerned with making a profit, then why weasel out from paying rent, the fired employees, and all the rest? Why be so adamant about a payed subscription? Why complain of advertisers leaving?
More importantly, why does a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” kowtow to an autocratic government if he’s not even concerned with profit? And why does he keep banning his own critics?
> ye olde Twitter's regular practice of of suppressing or deleting content worldwide at the whim of the US government
Here are eight more sources and a study. Surely they won’t all be “notoriously biased outlets” writing hit pieces, or is the definition for that “writes something negative about Musk”?
Being unable to turn a profit is not the same as not prioritising profit.
If he’s so unconcerned with making a profit, then why weasel out from paying rent, the fired employees, and all the rest? Why be so adamant about a payed subscription? Why complain of advertisers leaving?
More importantly, why does a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” kowtow to an autocratic government if he’s not even concerned with profit? And why does he keep banning his own critics?
> ye olde Twitter's regular practice of of suppressing or deleting content worldwide at the whim of the US government
Disputed by his own lawyers.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/06/tech/twitter-files-lawyer...
> this hit piece from a notoriously biased outlet
Here are eight more sources and a study. Surely they won’t all be “notoriously biased outlets” writing hit pieces, or is the definition for that “writes something negative about Musk”?
https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/twitter-censorship-increases-u...
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/twitter-promised-to-fig...
https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...
https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...
https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/elon-musk-turkey-twitte...
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-twitte...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...
https://censortrack.org/study-twitter-censorship-shockingly-...