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Musk is way over his head.

If you view the 4chan forums, they're already plotting racist, anti-semitic content and rejoicing. Advertisers will not be happy real quick.

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Right wing provocateurs are already having their supporters posting the n-word, racist and anti LGBTQ content since Elon took over.

It is going to be fun watching it implode.

none of this is fun

Twitter was a bad idea - a global town square - humanity is not ready for such a concept.

A small minority will always be the one to fark up things for others - see griefing in MMO and why moderators and banning is needed.

You may not have noticed, but they've been posting that for years.

There has been a significant uptick today[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ncri_io/status/1586007698910646272

Fair enough. I still think conservatives (and liberals, for different reasons) are vastly overestimating how much Musk will protect free speech. Slurs will obviously still be banned (likely automatically; I don't see why the platform relies on human moderation in those cases). These people are just getting a fast-track ticket to not-allowed-on-Twitter.

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