{"id":1366,"date":"2022-12-19T03:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2022-12-19T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T03:21:45","slug":"musk-rat-love-elons-reign-at-twitter-is-like-a-marx-brothers-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Musk Rat Love — Elon\u2019s Reign at Twitter is like a Marx Brothers Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

December 18th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

www.zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Well, Elon finally did something popular. He posted a tweet this afternoon, a poll, the sole question in which was, \u201cShould I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.\u201d<\/p>\n

At last glance, with some 9 million votes cast, he was trailing badly, with Yes getting 58% of the vote. Now, it\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess as to whether that\u2019s an actual legitimate count, and if Musk plans on honoring the results or not. He discarded one vote he lost badly on, blaming the overwhelming majority of votes on bots.<\/p>\n

In any event, his aim isn\u2019t to restore order in the wake of the chaos he has created. He wrote, \u201cNo one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor.\u201d Hmm. Has anyone thought of asking Jack Dorsey? Oh, wait. The former Twitter CEO is running a rival social media known as Nostr. He is professing puzzlement at Musk\u2019s antics, but in private he has to be laughing his ass off, to coin an internet phrase.<\/p>\n

Mind you, in just the last 24 hours, Musk banned accounts that promoted or even linked to rival social media sites. He wrote, “we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.” One interesting omission there: TikTok. They are the Yellow Peril Panic of the week in right wing circles, and it\u2019s strange that Musk didn\u2019t pander to them.<\/p>\n

The EU wasn\u2019t amused by all this, even if the rest of us were. Per Brad Reed at Raw Story: \u00c9ric Freyssinet, the deputy director of France’s Cyberspace Gendarmerie Command, warned Twitter CEO Elon Musk that his company could lose protections against both civil and criminal legal liabilities if it really enforces this policy.<\/p>\n

“Any attempt to remove my tweets that link to my other social media accounts, not violating any law, would actually make Twitter an editorial media, and no longer a social media platform, with civil and criminal liability for *any* illegal content therein,” he explained<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, dear. Just Kanye West\u2019s posts about Jews would qualify as illegal content under EU rules. Hate speech is against the law in that civilized corner of the world. Even in the US, editorial media\u2014papers, cable news networks and so forth, steer clear of libelous and\/or defamatory content, or like some of the less disreputable outfits that dabbled in it last year, they could face ruinous lawsuits of, oh, say, $1.6 billion. I\u2019m sure you can think of a few examples, and none of them sound very happy about those suits right now.<\/p>\n

After that, Musk jaunted off to Qatar to watch the final of the World Cup, aka the Merde! Bowl. He got photographed with Jared Kushner and Qatari leaders, which brought to mind Mos Eisley spaceport from Star Wars. You know the one. \u201cYou will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” The only thing missing was The Former Guy.<\/p>\n

Imagine you get a call tomorrow morning from some clerk at Twitter headquarters. \u201cMusk just walked out! It\u2019s bedlam! It\u2019s chaos!\u201d You might ask what Musk walking out had to do with the bedlam and chaos, since it\u2019s a bit like saying the traffic light just turned red and that\u2019s why there\u2019s a full moon. The clerk, sobbing convulsively, screams \u201cSave us, Obi-Wan! You\u2019re our only hope.\u201d (Yeah, I know, you start with one quote from that damn movie and it metastasizes\u2026).<\/p>\n

OK, snow\u2019s ploughed, gifts are under the tree, wife just left you for a television repairman. You say, what the fuck? Demand an iron clad contract that says you get a few million for three months work no matter what, put on a firefighter\u2019s gear, and wade in.<\/p>\n

What would you do first?<\/p>\n

I would do an instant reset. Undo every change that Musk made that still survived his mercurial moods. Invite every employee that Musk canned or forced out back, at the same pay, and with a promise for a fat bonus if at the end of your three month period, they had managed to right the ship. Bring back the voluntary council that Musk just canned earlier this week and tell them to get cracking on rules that were consistent and, even more importantly, able to be applied consistently. Hate speech, disinformation, doxxing and defamatory attacks would once again result in suspension.<\/p>\n

Reset to last known version that worked. And then carefully build from there. If you have to move slowly and cautiously, so be it. We\u2019ve seen what brash and impulsive rule looks like. It looks like the Qatari mens\u2019 soccer team.<\/p>\n

Musk should help to further degrade the cult-like faith people have that those who are rich and famous must therefore be wise and capable of strong leadership. Gawd knows America has no shortage of overprivileged libertarian cnuts that show, if anything that the exact opposite is true. Billionaires are not your buddy, and don\u2019t care about your interests and needs. In fact, they\u2019re sure that if they had, they wouldn\u2019t be billionaires in the first place. Stop worshipping them.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, keep watching Twitter. It\u2019s the best Marx Brothers movie they\u2019ve made in 75 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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