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Why Are People Upset About Elon Musk Buying Twitter?
So what’s the big deal? Elon Musk will now be the head of the largest American car company, the largest private aerospace company, and the brain-chip startup. He’ll also have the power to tweet as he pleases. The purchase will give him political leverage – and that could help him in other endeavors. What’s not to like? In this article we’ll discuss the implications of Musk’s decision to purchase Twitter.
Elon Musk is a troll
There are many reasons to believe Elon Musk is a troll. Musk has a stake in Twitter, but his snide remarks about others are not only offensive, they are also wrong. Musk is not just a troll, he’s a bully. He has dissed politicians, oligarchs, and even someone who saved children from a cave. And what makes him worse is that he’s a bully.
For example, Elon Musk is constantly attacking the government. He carps at stimulus spending and derides public health measures taken by Washington. Meanwhile, he has paid less tax to the US government than the average worker. In fact, he was the richest man in the world in 2018, and yet paid no income tax. Meanwhile, his companies received government subsidies. Elon Musk’s ire only grew stronger as the “new Trump” became president.
He’s a prolific Twitter
Elon Musk has become a prolific tweeter, and his political views have come under fire from many sources. He has called President Trump an oligarch and made his intentions to buy Twitter clear, comparing it to TikTok and Truth Social. Musk has also criticized Twitter employees, including CEO Evan Spiegel and Legal, Policy, and Trust Lead Vijaya Gadde. Musk’s tweets were deemed a veiled barb at the Silicon Valley, but they didn’t make him a bad person.
Musk has over eighty-two million followers on Twitter. He often spars with critics, and his frequent tweeting has led to a federal gag order. One of Musk’s most popular tweets was about taking Tesla private – an assertion later found to be untrue by securities regulators. Musk’s serial tweeting has also brought him legal troubles in the past, but his lack of tweets is not necessarily indicative of his intentions or his opinions.
He’s a troll
Some people claim Elon Musk is a troll after he tweeted that he was buying Twitter. This tweet sent the shares of the social media giant into freefall. However, it is hard to argue that Musk is not a troll. Elon has an impressive list of accomplishments. After all, he owns Tesla, has three children (including a baby girl named Y), and has a net worth of $265 billion.
Musk is a puerile bully who insults his political opponents with derogatory nicknames and is very puerile. In response to Musk’s tweets about Twitter bots, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of the company, reacted by sending a poop emoji. But there’s a bigger problem at play here.
He wants to control Twitter
Elon Musk wants to take over Twitter, but how? Musk said that he hasn’t decided if he’ll be able to do so, and that he thinks the social networking site is a “public square.” He also wants to make the Twitter algorithm publicly available, which would allow anyone to iterate on it. He’s reportedly received several criticisms for this plan. But many users are skeptical.
Some people believe that it is unwise for the billionaire to try and own a social media platform, but the reality is much more complex. The billionaire CEO of Tesla Inc. has long expressed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) enslaving humans. While the merits of this approach can be debated, he does put himself in a better position by owning Twitter. In a recent TED conference in Vancouver, Musk said that he wanted to make Twitter a more open platform for users to communicate with each other.
He wants to defend hate speech
The billionaire founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, wants to defend free speech and protect democracy. But, what is his motivation? And will his idea actually make the platform less hateful? The founder of Tesla is associated with the extremist professor Stefan Molyneux, who claimed that nonwhites are less intelligent than whites. Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an expert on radical ideas, has long followed such trolls.
Last year, right-wing social-media site Parler was nearly banned from the internet after users began promoting violent messages and organizing a Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. Apple and Google removed the app from their online stores, and Amazon stopped providing web-hosting services to the site. But Musk wants to defend free speech beyond US law, and it may be possible to do that by changing Twitter’s algorithms and policies.
