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by brookst 1329 days ago
Read Matt LeVine’s stories; I think he has the best take.

In short: Musk made an offer for the lulz because how many people can joke about $44B, got trapped in it, loves Twitter, hates Twitter, figures there’s something there, wants out, wants to go big, ask again tomorrow.

He’s rich enough that he can afford to be erratic and cavalier, none of his past statements should be taken as predictive of future actions. He’s already gone from “all moderation is censorship” to “of course we don’t want the dystopian bell scape that complete laissez faith would produce”. Tomorrow he might run the firehouse through CCP’s censors. For the lulz.

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_Musk made an offer for the lulz_

Seems to me Musk got bored waiting for the EPA to give a go-ahead for Starship and things got wayy out of hand.

Have any journalists had the same insight?