This is the one semi-reasonable retort presented here. Let's say that Twitter does go to something like "all legal speech is allowed on Twitter" policy. What happens to their business?
Well, nobody can predict the future.
Maybe their business prospects instantly crash and burn.
But I think that Twitter is the unofficial brain of the planet and there's no alternative for all of the grifters out there. Celebrities, journalists, and corporations might talk a big game, but would they walk the walk? They would have to be willing to go without the network of attention they've built up.
The question might become, "Can Musk mentally withstand a few days/weeks of intense derision until something else hits the news cycle"?
Well, nobody can predict the future.
Maybe their business prospects instantly crash and burn.
But I think that Twitter is the unofficial brain of the planet and there's no alternative for all of the grifters out there. Celebrities, journalists, and corporations might talk a big game, but would they walk the walk? They would have to be willing to go without the network of attention they've built up.
The question might become, "Can Musk mentally withstand a few days/weeks of intense derision until something else hits the news cycle"?