On Friday a Twitter bell tolls -- it tolls for you. [View all]
Twitter wasn’t healthy then, isn’t now, and never will be. Elon Musk will make it worse in ways we clueless innocents haven’t yet figured out.
Heather Mallick
By Heather MallickStar Columnist
Wed., Oct. 26, 2022
At 5 p.m. Friday, the world’s richest man, the famously lovely and sunny-tempered Elon Musk, must complete a U.S. $44-billion deal for Twitter or else a judge in Delaware will take it very much amiss. Twitter badly wants to be bought, a bad sign in itself…There are many problems ahead. One is that despite his vast wealth, Musk did not have enough cash on hand and had to turn to foreign investors like Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, Qatar Holding, and Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange. Their total stake is about US$7 billion, reports the Guardian.
…. Like all social media, Twitter wasn’t healthy then, isn’t now, and never will be. But Musk will make it worse in ways we clueless innocents on the site haven’t yet figured out. He is a free-speech extremist.
It isn’t just that Trump, antisemites, and white supremacists will be back on Twitter, it’s that you will be fish food for people like that and for a company that doesn’t actually believe anyone is entitled to privacy or limits on speech. This may well happen on Friday.
Some of you have posted 100,000 tweets over the years and still think yourselves sane. Delete them. In particular, delete your DMs (direct messages). Make haste.
Come Friday, your digital blackmailable life may be served to Mister Musk on a plate.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/10/26/on-friday-a-twitter-bell-tolls-it-tolls-for-you.html
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