Is that really a reason to hate the man? “Hate” is a strong and emotionally loaded word.
* taking the company private, and off the stock market, so decisions are no longer made with short term valuation / stock price movements in mind
* sacking the vast majority of bureaucratic staff, who have shown themselves to be politically biased. Suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story would NEVER have happened on an impartial social network
* trying out new ideas. Twitter was haemorrhaging money and was technically stuck in a rut
* sacking the board and C-suite (for the gross failures described above)
A lot of people will have their noses put out of joint by Musk’s moves so far. But there are tens, possibly hundreds, of millions of ordinary people out there who will feel they can trust the network again, since Musk’s changes. These people are not extremists, or racists, or bigots - they are just people who have right-of-centre views and who value fairness and freedom of expression.
Well, no, if not for the $800M lawsuit settlement (a one-off), they'd have made $580M profit in 2020.
> technically stuck in a rut
Being under an FTC consent decree where every feature has to be thoroughly documented, analysed, and approved re: user privacy before launch tends to slow development down.
Ol' Musky has made the first almost infinitely worse ($1B interest/year) and cannot do anything about the second.
He experimented with some changes to Twitter, and his style is to rapidly try different things and see what works. I would expect him to continue like this. I hope he does. He's one of America's greatest innovators. This is how he works.
The screenshots of code thing wasn't so he could pick over the lines and analyse their style. It's so he had hard evidence of engineers who weren't writing code (many companies have them) and fire them immediately.