It just occurred to me that Elon Musk is now running Twitter pretty much like how Sinclair Davidson ran his (alleged) exercise in "free speech" (the old defunct Catallaxy blog): they both claim to defend it [free speech], but not to the extent that you can freely rubbish them or their special friends without knowing when the arbitrary hammer would strike to ban or restrict someone just for annoying them.
Musk's behaviour is increasingly erratic and petty: and by the way, if the richest man in the world can't afford a good security minder for him and his family, who can? It seems a significant number of people I like to follow have left Twitter now, as hanging around to be treated by the owner like you're a mere cat toy is degrading.
It has reached the stage that I have to investigate Mastodon. Not that I post tweets, but yes, there really needs to be a general strike against using the site.
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