His generation’s finest innovator wants to add a social media platform, free of censorship, to the list of his trophies. But do not buy that, because as soon as Elon Musk unveils whatever he has in mind, he will attain a stable equilibrium state and that is censorship.
The problem is not the censorship. The real issue is people pretending that they do not censor. So before you plan to join Musk, understand that he will do the needful, sooner or later.
Censorship is global. In Russian websites over the weekend, the #1 trending video was the shooting of Russian Prisoners of War by Ukrainian soldiers. Magically, that video is severely restricted in our part of the internet. It is the same way Russia blocks videos of bombed hospitals in Ukraine, in Russia, even as they trend in our part of the web.
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Elon Musk is brilliant but there is one thing he cannot achieve: a zero-censorship social media platform. Since they censored me, I have stopped writing about the Ukraine war as there is no need wasting time on issues I cannot freely express my views. Will Musk provide that freedom? My answer is IMPOSSIBLE.
Apathy toward social media is growing with a recruiting dynamic that has drawn popular voices to jump the bandwagon of its criticism, and the idea of creating an alternative platform devoid of propaganda and censorship as a solution to social media platforms’ undoing.
The latest recruit is Elon Musk. On Saturday, the world’s richest man started a series of tweets accompanied by polls on Twitter, where he revealed that he is seriously thinking about starting a social media platform.
The SpaceX founder and CEO started the conversation with a poll asking whether Twitter algorithm should be open source. 82.7% of the 1.12 million responders voted yes at the close of the poll.
Elon Musk Is Considering Starting His Own Social Media Platform
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