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MisterEChops t1_j0biskz wrote

No, of course not.

At the best of times, Twitter is a dumpster fire shithole

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bigperm8645 t1_j0cf1yk wrote

Couldn't have said it better. When I want to be pissed off, over to Twitter

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ooru t1_j0bpmld wrote

Betteridge's Law of Headlines: "Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered 'No.'"

Elon can't do what he wants to do with the platform (i.e. let hate speech have equal footing with everything else), because laws exist, and no matter how rich he is, he must follow them.

80% of his users are in the EU, and they have very strict hate speech and defamation laws. Besides the bills that keep piling up and the lawsuits he's about to face over not paying severance to those who left, he will eventually have to face European governments' orders.

Couple that with the fact that he's shown a lot of people just how much of a turbo-bigot he is, and he's never going to attract the same number of people Twitter had before. The tricks he used to make his other companies work won't work here (and evidence indicates his success was probably somebody else's ideas that he stole).

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Jugales t1_j0bf5y4 wrote

No. It will be whatever replaces TikTok in the US, and maybe still TikTok outside of the US

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