| Lesenswerter Kommentar von Nilay Patel (The Verge) |  |
Der Chefredakteur von The Verge, Nilay Patel, hat die Übernahme von Twitter durch Elon Musk kommentiert. Auszug:
You can write as many polite letters to advertisers as you want, but you cannot reasonably expect to collect any meaningful advertising revenue if you do not promise those advertisers “brand safety.” That means you have to ban racism, sexism, transphobia, and all kinds of other speech that is totally legal in the United States but reveals people to be total assholes.
So you can make all the promises about “free speech” you want, but the dull reality is that you still have to ban a bunch of legal speech if you want to make money. And when you start doing that, your creepy new right-wing fanboys are going to viciously turn on you, just like they turn on every other social network that realizes the same essential truth.
[https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation]
Sehr scharfzüngig, aber auch sehr treffend, finde ich. Mal schauen, ob Musk und sein Ego die Firma (und womöglich auch seine anderen Unternehmen) vor die Wand fahren werden…