{"id":5660,"date":"2022-04-25T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:12:41","slug":"elon-musk-buys-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Buys Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">It&#8217;s Not Good News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>He has said he intends to give fascists a platform on it, there is no good reason to doubt his intent to do that, and he now has (or soon will have) the power to do it. The conclusion here seems inescapable, at least in the short-to-medium term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expect Chaos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t say exactly what chaos to expect, but expect it. And don&#8217;t expect it all to be easily predictable chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expect Surprises<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Musk has more money than sense, and he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2018-226\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2018-226\">burned himself<\/a> before. This is one reason why I expect chaos. Musk will act impulsively, this will bite him, then he will act impulsively in an attempt to counter the harm his earlier impulsiveness caused him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This may even play out in ways that the fascists haven&#8217;t thought through: what if he decides climate change denial is a threat (it runs counter to Tesla&#8217;s business model, after all) and bans it from Twitter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Not Good News He has said he intends to give fascists a platform on it, there is no good reason to doubt his intent to do that, and he now has (or soon will have) the power to do it. The conclusion here seems inescapable, at least in the short-to-medium term. Expect Chaos I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalist-scum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}