{"id":436613,"date":"2022-04-23T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-its-so-much-fun-watching-elon-musk-embarrass-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T17:56:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:56:50","slug":"why-its-so-much-fun-watching-elon-musk-embarrass-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-its-so-much-fun-watching-elon-musk-embarrass-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why it\u2019s so much fun watching Elon Musk embarrass Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3229d088504\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3229d088504\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-its-so-much-fun-watching-elon-musk-embarrass-twitter\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_its_so_much_fun_watching_Elon_Musk_embarrass_Twitter%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why it\u2019s so much fun watching Elon Musk embarrass Twitter&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_its_so_much_fun_watching_Elon_Musk_embarrass_Twitter%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why it\u2019s so much fun watching Elon Musk embarrass Twitter&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sometimes it seems that Elon Musk learned the art of public relations from Tony Montana of \u00a0\u201cScarface\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake way for the bad guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire troublemaker loves a public brawl and doesn\u2019t mind playing the villain, and at the moment he has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> all atwitter at the prospect of his taking over the company \u2014 a $43 billion lark that Musk seems to have undertaken in a fit of pique at the social-media giant\u2019s seemingly arbitrary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to free speech and content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 80 million followers, Musk is a very active user of Twitter \u2014 too active at times, in the view of the SEC, which has put him under a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2022\/04\/musk-tells-judge-that-gag-order-would-trample-on-his-first-amendment-rights\/\">partial gag order<\/a> as the result of ill-considered tweets with the power to move the stock market. Musk doesn\u2019t like the way Twitter runs its business, so he wants to make it his business.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s board <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/sergeiklebnikov\/2022\/04\/15\/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-to-fend-off-elon-musks-takeover-bid\/?sh=47f0b72f6421\">rebuffed his solo effort<\/a> to take the company over, but Musk didn\u2019t give up: He\u2019s been knocking on doors on Wall Street looking for big-money partners such as Morgan Stanley or Apollo Global Management to back his hostile takeover. On Thursday, he said <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/business-news\/elon-musk-secured-financing-buy-twitter-deal-rcna25372\">he had secured $46.5 billion<\/a> in financing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-xaea-12.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Armed with 80 million followers, Elon Musk \u2014 seen here with son son X \u00c6 A-Xii \u2014 has become an expert at using the platform to convey his wide range of political and economic points-of-view. \" class=\"wp-image-21991547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-xaea-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-xaea-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-xaea-12.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Armed with 80 million followers, Elon Musk \u2014 seen here with son son X \u00c6 A-Xii \u2014 has become an expert at using the platform to convey his wide range of political and economic points-of-view. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for TIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twitter annoyed the wrong billionaire: A social-media feud that is also an opportunity to make a pile of money is precisely the sort of thing Elon Musk lives for. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk isn\u2019t exactly a full-time troll: He did manage to build a major automobile company almost from scratch, taking Tesla from three guys with a big idea to a firm that today has a market value <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tradestation.com\/insights\/2021\/04\/08\/tesla-overvalued-comparison-gm-ford\/\">20 times that of General Motors<\/a>, jump-starting the electric-vehicle market into existence worldwide. His SpaceX company does important work for NASA and has added some pretty cool stuff to the rocketry repertoire, such as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/science-environment-36002424\">landing a spacecraft vertically on a boat<\/a> at sea. He has some other projects in the works \u2014 from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/es_ES\/blog\/hyperloop%20\">hyperloops<\/a> that could replace most airline <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to his nonprofit artificial-intelligence work \u2014 and he was, at the close of business on Friday, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/business\/money\/2022\/04\/06\/elon-musk-declared-worlds-richest-person-as-net-worth-of-wealthy-slips-to-127tn\/\">the wealthiest man in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who calls himself a \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/14\/how-free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-would-transform-twitter\">free-speech absolutist<\/a>,\u201d wants to make Twitter a more free and open platform. What has spooked many of his critics \u2014 especially those within the company \u2014 is not that he plans to make the platform a moderation-free digital Wild West in which Islamic State snuff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> are treated as though they were brownie recipes but rather that he proposes to make public some aspects of the company\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/04\/16\/elon-musk-twitter-algorithm\/\">decision-making processes and some of its algorithms<\/a>, creating real transparency in the operations of what is today a corporate black box.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/parag-agrawal-jack-dorsey.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Both current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (left) and former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey (right) initially welcomed Musk's large-scale stock purchase and potential seat on its board. Dorsey recently criticized the board, saying it's &quot;consistently been the dysfunction of the company.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-21991566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/parag-agrawal-jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/parag-agrawal-jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/parag-agrawal-jack-dorsey.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Both current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (left) and former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey (right) initially welcomed Musk\u2019s large-scale stock purchase and potential seat on its board. Dorsey recently criticized the board, saying it\u2019s \u201cconsistently been the dysfunction of the company.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-biden-4.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"In 2020, Twitter blocked New York Post stories about the contents of a laptop owned by Hunter Biden (above), which included emails that showed his financial relationship with a Ukrainian energy firm. \" class=\"wp-image-21991587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-biden-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-biden-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-biden-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-biden-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>In 2020, Twitter blocked New York Post stories about the contents of a laptop owned by Hunter Biden (above), which included emails that showed his financial relationship with a Ukrainian energy firm. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is likely to embarrass Twitter, whose employees exploit the arbitrary and opaque character of its operations to pursue private social and political vendettas, e.g. trying to suppress the\u00a0New York Post\u2019s coverage of Hunter Biden\u2019s shenanigans (which you can now read about, years after the fact, in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0and the\u00a0Washington Post) before the 2020 election, when they would have embarrassed Joe Biden and possibly helped Donald Trump. I wrote the case against Trump \u2014 literally: My book,\u00a0\u201cThe Case Against Trump,\u201d was published in 2016 \u2014 but it is very difficult even for me to imagine a plausible rationale for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-55597840\">denying Donald Trump a Twitter account<\/a> while the Taliban has free access to the platform. Twitter\u2019s only reliable free-speech principle is that it shuns anything that causes California progressives to run around shrieking with their dresses over their heads.<\/p>\n<p>What Musk proposes is not taking away Twitter\u2019s ability to regulate content on its platform but rather to disinfect that process by dragging Twitter\u2019s inner workings out of the shadows and into the sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty to criticize about Twitter, which is the vast open sewer of our public life. And there is plenty to criticize about Elon Musk, too. I do not think that Musk is likely to make Twitter any worse than it already is, because I do not think that is possible: The basic architecture of Twitter \u2014 anonymity, immediacy, the way a following is built \u2014 ensures that Twitter brings out the worst in its users. Twitter rewards hysteria, performative outrage, and tribalism, and has very little use for thoughtfulness, nuance, or consensus-building. A good version of Twitter simply would not be Twitter. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-joe-biden-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Twitter blocked the stories about Hunter Biden right before the presidential election when they would have embarrassed Joe Biden and possibly helped Donald Trump.\" class=\"wp-image-21991686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-joe-biden-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-joe-biden-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/hunter-joe-biden-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Twitter blocked the stories about Hunter Biden right before the presidential election when they would have embarrassed Joe Biden and possibly helped Donald Trump.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-6.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Donald Trump was banned from Twitter in January 2021, just after the attack on the US Capitol. But the Taliban still has free access to the platform.\" class=\"wp-image-21991613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/donald-trump-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Donald Trump was banned from Twitter in January 2021, just after the attack on the US Capitol. But the Taliban still has free access to the platform.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watching Elon Musk take on Twitter is like watching a hockey <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> or sitting through the Oscars: The beatdown will be the fun part, no matter who wins.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kevin D. Williamson is the author of \u201cBig White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the \u201cReal America.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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