One of the reasons why I left Twitter (aside from its huge security holes) was the systemic repression of alternative viewpoints, all while Twitter arrogantly crowned itself the arbiter of what counted as disinformation and dodged the platform vs. publisher question. With Musk promising a freer-speech environment, would I now go back? No. I'm done with social media, and my life is so much better without it. So, with apologies to Mr. Musk, fuck Twitter.
UPDATE: courtesy of Instapundit, we now know the above, while plausibly Trumpish, was not from Trump himself. A fake. Not the first time I've been had, and certainly not the last. Apparently, the clue to the fakeness was "Trump's" claim that he was going to be reinstated. Trump has made clear that he would not be going back to Twitter, and with his own platform, Truth Social, booming as it is, why would he go back? Then again, you never know with Trump. If Musk were to say that Trump was always welcome back, Trump might take him up on the offer, despite now knowing that Twitter is swarming with bots.
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