Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia

EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t mistake intent for ability. Elon doesn’t feel cost or expense, he’s that rich. So while we can all laugh at the money it takes to wreck the communication platform called twitter, a person so rich could be doing exactly what they want; silencing and platforming anyone they choose, while swaths of people can be silenced or deplatformed for Saudi investors all while Elon muddies the waters of “free speech”. The cost is what we laugh about but consider the actions of someone who could dump that money for their own political ends and at the end of the day their feet still haven’t touched the ground.

  It’s not a surprise if he were to eyeball Wikipedia and the thought should be a terrifying.

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