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It genuinely surprises me how many Musk defenders don’t get this. I understand the principle his no-moderation policies come from but the reality is that Twitter is going to become (even more of) a political cesspit. No brand is going to want to be associated with it.

It's going to become 4chan-lite.

There's just too much risk in investing into a platform that will allow anyone to post unmoderated content that corporations just want out of Twitter altogether.

Twitter was politically neutral before a few days ago? This seems more like a reaction to the Current Thing, which is "Elon man bad."

They've replaced Emmanual Orangestein with Elonnuel Goldstein.

What was Twitter last week? What was Twitter when they banned a sitting president of the United States?

It's only now political because Elon owns it?

You mean a sitting president who flagrantly violated their TOS? If anything it was political that they waited so long to ban him, not that they banned him when they did.

Exactly. Contrary to Thailand for example, the president does not get special privileges from private organsiations.

People who ask for that are beyond the idea of democracy