Bonus Column
Elon Musk must be given a chance. I am not an Elon Musk fan whatsoever! I do live by the thesis of you must give people a chance to show and tell especially under these conditions. So much is at stake I feel because of the significance that Twitter has in our ‘‘digital based society’’. We must allow him a short period aka ‘‘the honeymoon period’’ to let him do what he does.
Musk you can argue is a forward based individual. He is not a backward type of person. You can have a spirited debate that he is a visionary. I see him as someone ‘‘ahead of the curve’’. There is time to give him the chance anyone deserves to show and tell without jumping to all of the conclusion’s folks will in this time. Please pump the brakes on the balderdash that many have tossing out. We do not have any idea of what is running through his mind at this moment. Let’s take our time before we toss out a verdict.
In this time in my humble the bulk of society makes decisions based on emotions/ideological premise and not an objective one. We now live in a world of subjectivity not objectivity. The media is not based on journalism in this modern period. Much of what we see is aggressively politically slanted. In this time of any aggressive left and aggressive right we just view the world from a bubble. I would say Musk doesn’t make decisions based on emotions.
Twitter is the online town square in this time we live in especially covid. Society still has not gone back fully to pre covid due to this ongoing covid show that is ingrained in our society. As someone who has been on Twitter from its genesis, I am hoping that Twitter goes back to their initial roots. It was very useful for music marketing and being able to get our voice out via this idea of the virtual town square. I am still very much enamored with idea of twitter. However, since leading up to the covid era Twitter was not the Twitter I liked.
I hope that Mr. Musk takes it back to 2009-2010 when Twitter was a newborn and ready to take on the world. Time to leave out all of the censorship which was so prevalent under the last administration that Mr. musk removed as soon as he officially took over. That one-dimensional thought stream that Twitter had become was not a place you got a diversified thought structure. Another critical issue I hope Mr. Musk tackles is the platform paying the music industry rightsholders for use of their music. Mr. Musk purchased Twitter for 54.2 billion which is more valuable than any major label. I know for a fact that the independent music world of millions was crucial in breaking Twitter to the world in its infancy. I was part of that vanguard.
In closing, Mr. Musk now has the authority to take Twitter back to its roots. He has the resources but more importantly the vision to do this. It is time to turn Twitter back from a fiefdom of censorship to one where people are not tossed if they have a difference of how they view the world for whatever reasons. Twitter is a Defacto propaganda tool that Mr. Musk must turn back to its roots. I know that web is online and global, but Twitter was birthed in the former land of free which is devolved to a communist country under the Biden Administration. For those who question my statement go read that 29-page book called the Communist manifesto. Now what will your mind allow you to do.