Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He is already being sued for a variety of issues related to how he is handling Twitter. The conspiracy has to go all the way around into suggesting that he intentionally wants everyone to think he is a fool, at expense of his other businesses, to make decisions even average people believe to be clueless and destructive, when he could arrange for that to happen much more subtly.

    Seems simpler to me to just believe he is a fool. This whole conspiracy seems to come from sheer disbelief that someone so wealthy could be so stupid. But it seems to me it proves that wealth and competence or intelligence aren’t correlated after all.

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      Exactly. It’s Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

      Stupidity alone more than adequately explains what Elon is doing to Twitter.

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      1 year ago

      He is connected to Thiel who is connected to US intel. Perhaps decisions were made that Twitter is too influencial and influenced by users during elections? Just a theory.

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        If anyone might be deliberately trying to kill Twitter, maybe it’s whoever financed it. Wouldn’t they realize that Elon offered for Twitter far more than it was worth and that repaying it is very unlikely?