I think putting this policy in place is actually good for Twitter's bottom line.
People will be promoting all kinds of competitors and trying to get people on Twitter to retweet those things.
A competitor is some site that acts as a third party, not the actual media article or primary thing to link to. So Twitter having this model makes business sense.
Does it makes Elon Musk a hypocrite? Of course it does!!! Capitalism restricts free speech, and even compels other speech. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtkvG1JnPk
Anytime an employee (e.g. a news anchor) has to stay away from topics, repeat talking points, or get fired and replaced by an organization, that is capitalism at work. They are an employee being used as a mouthpiece, not a human being saying what they really think.
Capitalism and private ownership of large organizations is not about freedom. The concept of ownership is literally about restricting other people's freedoms to do as they wish with what you own, and compelling employees to do this or that, or get fired.
There's this weird assumption that capitalism somehow encourages free speech. And guys like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are therefore associated with it, and allowed to spew garbage about Free Speech, because they're billionaire capitalists. Um, no. To go in depth, watch this interview I did with Noam Chomsky last year:
People will be promoting all kinds of competitors and trying to get people on Twitter to retweet those things.
A competitor is some site that acts as a third party, not the actual media article or primary thing to link to. So Twitter having this model makes business sense.
Does it makes Elon Musk a hypocrite? Of course it does!!! Capitalism restricts free speech, and even compels other speech. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxtkvG1JnPk
Anytime an employee (e.g. a news anchor) has to stay away from topics, repeat talking points, or get fired and replaced by an organization, that is capitalism at work. They are an employee being used as a mouthpiece, not a human being saying what they really think.
Capitalism and private ownership of large organizations is not about freedom. The concept of ownership is literally about restricting other people's freedoms to do as they wish with what you own, and compelling employees to do this or that, or get fired.
There's this weird assumption that capitalism somehow encourages free speech. And guys like Elon Musk and Donald Trump are therefore associated with it, and allowed to spew garbage about Free Speech, because they're billionaire capitalists. Um, no. To go in depth, watch this interview I did with Noam Chomsky last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HovxY1qBfek