Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
What is interesting to me is that the a great many established accounts on Twitter would love to leave the platform due to it being owned by Musk. They don’t/can’t/haven’t left Twitter due to network effects. How long these users remain on Twitter is a measure of the power of Twitter’s entrenched position. The only real policy on Twitter is whatever Musk wants at a given time. No one should expect consistency in policy enforcement on Twitter.
The ones complaining about media manipulation are the ones manipulating the media.
The ones complaining about coups and violence are the ones attempting coups and committing violence.
The ones complaining about rigged elections are the ones rigging the elections.
The ones complaining about pedophiles and groomers are the ones committing those acts.
Every time. Every. Single. Time.
They are extremely consistent in being extremely dishonest.
To be clear dominance is where one player owns market majority. That is not Twitter. There is lots of evidence on this. Twitter might dominate Truth Social but it still lags far behind Facebook, TikTok, and probably Instagram.
Vendor lock-in is where the cost to switch to an alternative is supremely expensive, such as rebuilding infrastructure from the ground up. That is radically different than the stupidity of not knowing what your options are.
That's one of the reasons Musk acquired Twitter.
If Musk really wanted more attention and adoration like a child he should have gone where the children are and instead purchased TikTok.
At this point it's a cult and the adulation of Musk and whatever he does or says is good. No doubt Musk loves it.
For example, everybody knows Musk is a pretty much non-existent father. He was called lying about stuff no sane person would even try to lie (like for example that his newborn died in his arms... which his wife denied). And yet, any time he shows his latest child with him, all those cult members are posting pictures, texts etc. praising how a wonderful father Elon is. And he shares and likes these messages !