Of course you write this post to have the discourse - but it is Elon's website and he can do what he wants with it I suppose. I don't think any era of Twitter has had very consistent moderation decisions and I don't think it matters much in any era - either now or when conservatives were making hay about it around covid. It seems clear that the prevailing political views of the owner are influential, but not dictatorial, and that's about as good as it gets in our world.
That said I am all for yelling at elon to try to get him to change the policies, which works a lot of the time, and seems like a pretty reasonable way to manage the margins of these things.
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Of course you write this post to have the discourse - but it is Elon's website and he can do what he wants with it I suppose. I don't think any era of Twitter has had very consistent moderation decisions and I don't think it matters much in any era - either now or when conservatives were making hay about it around covid. It seems clear that the prevailing political views of the owner are influential, but not dictatorial, and that's about as good as it gets in our world.
That said I am all for yelling at elon to try to get him to change the policies, which works a lot of the time, and seems like a pretty reasonable way to manage the margins of these things.