He did remove the censors in a way that makes the site unappealing to a lot of people, but at the same time 1,000x’d the amount of discussion on previously censored topics.
Like the discussions on there look like something out of 4chan these days.
A generous interpretation might be that Elon thought that re-enabling public discussion in certain verboten topics is important enough to light a big wad of cash on fire.
It’s not hard to predict that letting people talk about those things openly will scare off a lot of people. I would be surprised if he is surprised.
I think it’s peculiar how much of the commentariat denies that he is doing things for ideological reasons.
Like, quite obviously the best thing he could do for profit is to shut up and quit talking publicly about politics.
I believe that people are actually making real world Tesla purchasing decisions based on his public persona, and this could have a major impact on Tesla and likely already is. Not to mention public support for and excitement about SpaceX seeming to be below what it used to be despite continued advances on their part technically.
I don’t think it’s completely crazy to suspect he’s controlled opposition or something like that, but the idea that he is doing what he is doing for money is ridiculous in the original severity of the word.
Like the discussions on there look like something out of 4chan these days.
A generous interpretation might be that Elon thought that re-enabling public discussion in certain verboten topics is important enough to light a big wad of cash on fire.
It’s not hard to predict that letting people talk about those things openly will scare off a lot of people. I would be surprised if he is surprised.