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It blows my mind how CEO's can make such obviously shortsighted and stupid decisions.
Elon is elonning Twitter's reputation faster and faster every day.
In this context what does Elonning mean? Context makes it seem negative but it’s hard to find failed companies in Elon’s past?
Elonning is when you make obviously really bad decisions and run something into the ground as a result of those decisions.
It's not hard. In fact, the recent Twitter rebrand to X was the result of previous failed attempts to make X.com a thing.
Tesla is getting a lot of hate for false advertising. He got kicked out of Paypal. I remember him getting heat for overpricing a SpaceX service for Ukraine. Plus his dad hates him.
Theres a lot of evidence about his failed ventures out there
Boring company/Hyperloop.. where are all the underground vacuum tunnels? Oh yes.. they don't exist. Because it's a stupid idea.
Also holder of the title of the largest loss of personal wealth ever.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_losses_of_wealth
Don't forget the daughter who hates him.
Hyperloop?
The subway for rich people!
I mean the alternative possibility is that people dislike Elon and are trying to inflate small things into big ones.
Not that I don't actually suspect hate speech hasn't increased on his platform since he fired most of the staff anyway, but a company does have the right to defend itself legally against accusations and decide it in court.
It's like if you made a company and I had a claim that you were eating babies during lunch. Your defense against me would be a lawsuit in court.
Ok, but if you fire the team responsible for making sure no babies are consumed, and your company cafeteria menu suddenly has a section called All Baby All Day, the only people who will defend you are probably also eating babies at home.
The situation of one of the largest social media platforms in the world, and the proliferation of hate speech in it, are not small things. That place has had real political impact.
Yeah, he has the right, sure. Nobody says he doesn't, nobody says he shouldn't. But right now it's in the media. It's stupid. Now there's more attention drawn to this, and if they lose (though Elon's musk will likely try to bleed them dry rather than try to straight up win) it's now not just a claim, it's a claim backed up by law. He has very little to gain with this stunt.
Just because you have a right to do something, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Something that Elon clearly doesn't understand.