“What this advertising boycott is going to do is it’s going to kill the company,” he said.

Nobody owes you anything, you idiot. Businesses have the right to decide not to advertise with you, people have the right not to go to your platform, groups have the right not to host their content there. Your business was a convenient and vaguely congenial place for everyone to meet, but that’s not true anymore.

At this point there is zero doubt left that Musk is an idiot.

All he did was being born rich and being lucky with his investments so far.

I can’t imagine being a multi billionaire and being such a miserable attention whore

Elon seems more and more like an escaped mental patient…

I think the stress is really getting to him, I feel kinda bad for him actually…

Or, I would feel bad for him, if he wasn’t a complete dickhead.

You know, at this point, any sensible company will take a single look at Musk’s tantrums and decide that advertising on Twitter is a massive legal liability they cannot afford. Not only is their public image in danger because the content is so badly moderated and offensive content is allowed, but Musk threatens to sue them if they even consider terminating their existing campaigns. Heck, this is to say nothing about the impersonators. The only way for brands to stay safe is to get the hell out and just state that they have no official presence on Twitter. Staying on Twitter is just a disaster waiting to happen.

One day, Elon will no longer exist. That will be a good day for humanity. But sadly he’s just a symptom of the billionaires-exist problem. If a matter-energy conversion device ever gets invented and hopefully democratized, money will become meaningless – and it will drown people like him in their own narcissism.

Elon Musk finally learns the real truth that no one really wants to say: There is no such thing as free speech in the United States.

If saying an opinion gets you fired from your job, or gets advertisers pulled from your site: guess what, that opinion might as well be banned from being posted.

Being held at virtual gunpoint from corporations is no different from being held at actual gunpoint from governments. This is why right-wingers complain about bannings, because, well, they have a point. Even left-wingers get hit with this too, as certain Palestine supporters that aren’t careful enough with their wording are finding out.

I’d rather at least have the government say “To promote social cohesion and understanding, saying X opinion about Y groups of people, and stating Z false information will no longer be allowed”. Don’t get me wrong, that’s still invasive as hell and a horrifying precedent to set, but having to walk on eggshells for fear of virtual lynch mobs that can pop up at will and say “He said X he said X fire him and uproot his life or we will drag you through the mud and make you lose precious consumer money!!!” with little rhyme or reason, never stopping until their existence in society is ruined is not something that a society should support either.

That is simply vigilante justice via keyboard instead of handgun.