I still think Twitter's change of ownership was simply a move to get the public whom would leave for Truth Social to instead stay or rejoin Twitter and keep everyone on the plantation.
First you loosen up the control mechanisms (remove censorship). Everyone comes back and rejoins. You let them have some time to get used to and enjoy the social media experience. Next you counter move to eliminate or stifle the free flow of ideas. You have other contingencies (out of band ways to pressure or neutralize) in place to make sure nobody dares talk about the true controllers, and on the fringes you eliminate problem voices that are too good at criticizing the lieutenants to the true leadership.
I still think Twitter's change of ownership was simply a move to get the public whom would leave for Truth Social to instead stay or rejoin Twitter and keep everyone on the plantation.
First you loosen up the control mechanisms (remove censorship). Everyone comes back and rejoins. You let them have some time to get used to and enjoy the social media experience. Next you counter move to eliminate or stifle the free flow of ideas. You have other contingencies (out of band ways to pressure or neutralize) in place to make sure nobody dares talk about the true controllers, and on the fringes you eliminate problem voices that are too good at criticizing the lieutenants to the true leadership.
Feels like a Trojan horse to me.
Time will eventually reveal what is true.
It feels like Elon is playing both sides. He will do some things that are viewed as really good, then does stuff like this.
Or a method to combat bots got used by a clever state actor to fight its critics