Reposted from Dilip Simeon’s blog<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Elon Musk is the king of trolls in an age of troll politics \/ What better owner for Twitter than master of the ill-advised tweet?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Posted: 27 Apr 2022 07:43 PM PDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even while hammering out the final details of his \u00a335bn ($44bn) purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk took some time out this weekend to tweet. He likes tweeting, does the world\u2019s richest man, usually from what he calls his \u201cporcelain throne\u201d (that detail disclosed on Twitter, naturally enough). This one was a photo of Bill Gates<\/strong><\/a>, zeroing in on the 66-year-old\u2019s modest paunch and placing it next to a cartoon of a pregnant man. To that ensemble, Musk added this sentence of supreme wit: \u201cin case u need to lose a boner fast\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/26\/elon-musk-king-of-trolls-purchase-twitter-dangerous<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Elon Musk, master of the ill-advised tweet? by Marina Hyde<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quite where we\u2019ll be in six months\u2019 time as far as Twitter is concerned remains tantalisingly unclear, but it seems difficult to imagine it will be either a more or less pleasant space. It\u2019s a social media platform. I\u2019m not sure what further evidence humanity needs before we cotton on to the idea that such a thing might be an intrinsically toxic concept. Of course, there will always be some people who think it just hasn\u2019t been done right yet. Like communism, or a British version of The Daily Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, if Musk\u2019s takeover goes through, he\u2019ll assume control of a platform where the people on the right are incredibly angry about free speech, and those on the left are incredibly angry about hate speech. Which is to say: they have so much in common. As the tech visionary Jaron Lanier has long been excellent at pointing out<\/strong><\/a>, the best way to keep people on platforms is to make them angry. So the platforms are designed to make them angry\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/26\/twitter-elon-musk-ill-advised-tweet-angry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reposted from Dilip Simeon’s blog Elon Musk is the king of trolls in an age of troll politics \/ What better owner for Twitter than master of the ill-advised tweet? Posted: 27 Apr 2022 07:43 PM PDT Even while hammering out the final details of his \u00a335bn ($44bn) purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk took some time out this weekend to tweet. He likes tweeting, does the world\u2019s richest man, usually from what he calls his \u201cporcelain throne\u201d (that detail disclosed on Twitter, naturally enough). This one was a photo of Bill Gates, zeroing in on the 66-year-old\u2019s modest paunch and Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1],"tags":[227,230,228],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-elon-musk","tag-hype-symptomatic","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}