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Time will tell us, but the evidence shows that Mr. Musk has no intentions of making
a profit from it. So, what it actually is!
Elon Musk,
the owner of Tesla, the electric car company and also has a SpaceX, is making it
possible to buy the most renowned social media platform with a bid of $44
billion.
He struck a
deal to buy Twitter with a promise to decrease restrictions on the platform,
but these remarks lead to a question of what his approach means for the “digital
town square.”
After the deal
had been announced, the human rights activists were concerned about hate speech
on Twitter and its power over him, as he is called the “free speech absolutists.”
In a statement after signaling the deal,
he defined free speech as “the bedrock of a functioning democracy.”
Elon Musk idea of free speech
According to
human rights activists, a lack of moderation could lead to a rise in hate speech.
Many users
are also asking whether this means suspended accounts will be allowed back or
not. This mean is the most high-profile person account Donald Trump.
Uncertainty Is On Place Ahead:
What will go
in which direction is uncertain on a higher level?
The 11-
member board of Twitter unanimously agreed on the offer of Elon Musk’s $44 bn.
Jack Dorsey,
co-founder of Twitter, is happy that the platform “will continue to serve the
public conversation,” even though he previously said that he does not like “anyone
own or run Twitter.”
He further
said that
“Solving for
the problem of it being a company, however, Elon is the singular solution I
trust; I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”
But the Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal said in a meeting with employees where he shows his concern about the uncertainty in words, “Once the deal closes, we don’t know which direction the platform will go.”
Can We Call It Elon Musk’s Twittocracy Of $44 Billion?
When the
announcement of the deal of $44 billion Twitter to Elon Musk, the world was in
shock, and critics sharp their pends. The South African-born CEO of Tesla, the Boring
Company, and the richest person on Earth have been honored with “2021 person of
the Year” by Time Magazine, even while acknowledging his track record.
The record
comprises various allegations of atrociously sexist and racist conditions in his
US factories and the allegation of violating local pandemic regulations to keep
workers at work.
Time mused
on in words,” the vast expanse of human misery can seem an afterthought to a man
with his eyes on Mars.”
But critics
are not only limited here as a Colombian university professor remarked that “people
keep nattering on about a certain uninteresting person, who bought an uninteresting
social media platform, and all said that person wants is this kind of attention.”
She further said,
“it is very enabling, almost as if the world learned nothing from Trump.”
Critics On His Concept of Free Speech:
Let’s start
with Elon Musk’s concept of free speech, which he relentlessly invoked to
justify his latest conquest, “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning
democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future
of humanity are debated.”
Live-tweeting
is the favorite moment of Musk’s pastimes, would seem to be less vital to civilization-
or contrary, who bribes a college student $5,000 to delete a Twitter account cannot
chaunting himself to be the supporter of free speech.
The account is
@elonjet, where fresh graduates track Musk’s private jet utilizing publicly available
data, and after his refusal of $500, Elon blocked him.
Blocking is
one aspect, but the owner of Tesla has also been watched leashing out to the
politicians and others- often in inappropriate and sexual ways- for their
suggestions that billionaires should pay taxes.
And while now
Musk is poised to become the god of twitter, the policy of “free speech is only
for me, not for you” will soar to the next height.
Will it Result in People Leaving Twitter?
Musk said that
even his strongest critic will remain on Twitter does not seem effective “because
that is what free speech means.” However, some of his critics have threatened
to leave Twitter, while others have already left.
British
actress Jameela Jamil said she thinks Twitter to “become an, even more,
lawless, hateful, xenophobic, bigoted, misogynistic space.” And she informed
her followers that this would be her last tweet.
Meanwhile,
Caroline Orr Bueno, a University of Maryland postdoctoral researcher, said that
she would stay on the platform, where she has more than 450,000 followers.
“We have no
idea what it will look like under Elon Musk’s leadership.”
“What we do know is that if all the decent people leave, it’ll get bad here a whole lot faster,” she added.
In the end, the satire would be Musk is hardly a regular norm for the laughable course of capitalism in the USA, where largely looms the tyranny of the elite and widespread human misery, with appropriate words of Time Magazine- as the functioning democracy.
And
Musk has vowed to make Twitter better than ever with its changing algorithm and
authenticating all humans; none of this is human at all.
