re: #9 Charles Johnson

The weirdest, most unbalanced thing about this Twitter deal is that the lives of hundreds of millions of Twitter users were not even a teensy tiny bit of anybody’s concern. People who spent years building audiences, promoting and supporting businesses, doing activism for important causes - none of it mattered in the slightest.

You’re right, it wasn’t a concern, because we’re the product. We, the Twitter user base - we’re what Musk paid that $44B for. Literally the whole point of buying Twitter was to have a captive audience of hundreds of millions of people that he could influence with his right-wing woo. No one involved in the transaction cares one whit about any of the actual people involved, except for the value we bring as users of the platform.