{"id":5517,"date":"2022-04-27T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/what-better-owner-for-twitter-than-elon-musk-master-of-the-ill-advised-tweet-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T07:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:38:25","slug":"what-better-owner-for-twitter-than-elon-musk-master-of-the-ill-advised-tweet-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/what-better-owner-for-twitter-than-elon-musk-master-of-the-ill-advised-tweet-marina-hyde\/","title":{"rendered":"What better owner for Twitter than Elon Musk, master of the ill-advised tweet? | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ultimate shitposter has bought up Twitter, and its denizens are angry \u2013 how entirely appropriate<\/p>\n

Speaking a few hours ago about Twitter purchaser Elon Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey declared<\/a>: \u201cI trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.\u201d Bless. This feels like the first flashback scene we see in a dystopian drama after the words \u201cSIX MONTHS EARLIER \u2026\u201d Quite where we\u2019ll be in six months\u2019 time as far as Twitter is concerned remains tantalisingly unclear, but it seems difficult to imagine it will be either a more or less pleasant space. It\u2019s a social media platform. I\u2019m not sure what further evidence humanity needs before we cotton on to the idea that such a thing might be an intrinsically toxic concept. Of course, there will always be some people who think it just hasn\u2019t been done right yet. Like communism, or a British version of The Daily Show.<\/p>\n

Anyway, if Musk\u2019s takeover goes through, he\u2019ll assume control of a platform where the people on the right are incredibly angry about free speech, and those on the left are incredibly angry about hate speech. Which is to say: they have so much in common. As the tech visionary Jaron Lanier has long been excellent at pointing out<\/a>, the best way to keep people on platforms is to make them angry. So the platforms are designed to make them angry. You might consider the anger worth it for your version of advertising (I myself will post this column on Twitter), but even then it is a weirdly grim cost of doing business that just conceivably ought to be weighed far more carefully than it is.<\/p>\n

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n

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\nThe ultimate shitposter has bought up Twitter, and its denizens are angry \u2013 how entirely appropriate
\nSpeaking a few hours ago about Twitter purchaser Elon Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey declared: \u201cI trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.\u201d Bless. This feels like the first flashback scene we see in a dystopian drama after the words \u201cSIX MONTHS EARLIER \u2026\u201d Quite where we\u2019ll be in six months\u2019 time as far as Twitter is concerned remains tantalisingly unclear, but it seems difficult to imagine it will be either a more or less pleasant space. It\u2019s a social media platform. I\u2019m not sure what further evidence humanity needs before we cotton on to the idea that such a thing might be an intrinsically toxic concept. Of course, there will always be some people who think it just hasn\u2019t been done right yet. Like communism, or a British version of The Daily Show.
\nAnyway, if Musk\u2019s takeover goes through, he\u2019ll assume control of a platform where the people on the right are incredibly angry about free speech, and those on the left are incredibly angry about hate speech. Which is to say: they have so much in common. As the tech visionary Jaron Lanier has long been excellent at pointing out, the best way to keep people on platforms is to make them angry. So the platforms are designed to make them angry. You might consider the anger worth it for your version of advertising (I myself will post this column on Twitter), but even then it is a weirdly grim cost of doing business that just conceivably ought to be weighed far more carefully than it is.
\nMarina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ultimate shitposter has bought up Twitter, and its denizens are angry \u2013 how entirely appropriate Speaking a few hours ago about Twitter purchaser Elon Musk, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey declared: \u201cI trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.\u201d Bless. This feels like the first flashback scene we see in a dystopian drama …<\/p>\n

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