{"id":7965,"date":"2022-11-19T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/elon-musk-needs-to-learn-that-more-debate-does-not-mean-more-truth-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:39:33","slug":"elon-musk-needs-to-learn-that-more-debate-does-not-mean-more-truth-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/elon-musk-needs-to-learn-that-more-debate-does-not-mean-more-truth-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk needs to learn that more debate does not mean more truth | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beneath the billionaire\u2019s blurry vision for Twitter lies the notion that it\u2019s good to have a \u2018marketplace of ideas\u2019 <\/p>\n

At the end of last month, just after Elon Musk had bought Twitter, I wrote that having him responsible for an important part of the world\u2019s public sphere<\/a> could turn out to be \u201clike entrusting a delicate clock to a monkey\u201d. This struck some readers, especially those with tech backgrounds, as intemperate, but everything that has happened since suggests that it was bang on the money.<\/p>\n

The world has watched transfixed as the monkey flails around wondering what to do with his shiny new plaything. He can do whatever he likes with it, so we watch breathlessly to see what he tries next and speculate endlessly on whether this stunt or that one will do the trick. We are like spectators watching a chess grandmaster playing some practice games \u2013 trying this gambit or that; moving pieces on a board; tearing up the board and refashioning it as a sphere; and so on. The fact that the pieces on this chessboard are human beings \u2013 with mortgages, dependents, health insurance, etc \u2013 is nowhere mentioned, except by Maria Farrell in her splendid, excoriating essay<\/a> on the takeover. She too has been through a narcissistic acquisition and knows what it\u2019s like for real people.<\/p>\n

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\nBeneath the billionaire\u2019s blurry vision for Twitter lies the notion that it\u2019s good to have a \u2018marketplace of ideas\u2019
\nAt the end of last month, just after Elon Musk had bought Twitter, I wrote that having him responsible for an important part of the world\u2019s public sphere could turn out to be \u201clike entrusting a delicate clock to a monkey\u201d. This struck some readers, especially those with tech backgrounds, as intemperate, but everything that has happened since suggests that it was bang on the money.
\nThe world has watched transfixed as the monkey flails around wondering what to do with his shiny new plaything. He can do whatever he likes with it, so we watch breathlessly to see what he tries next and speculate endlessly on whether this stunt or that one will do the trick. We are like spectators watching a chess grandmaster playing some practice games \u2013 trying this gambit or that; moving pieces on a board; tearing up the board and refashioning it as a sphere; and so on. The fact that the pieces on this chessboard are human beings \u2013 with mortgages, dependents, health insurance, etc \u2013 is nowhere mentioned, except by Maria Farrell in her splendid, excoriating essay on the takeover. She too has been through a narcissistic acquisition and knows what it\u2019s like for real people. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beneath the billionaire\u2019s blurry vision for Twitter lies the notion that it\u2019s good to have a \u2018marketplace of ideas\u2019 At the end of last month, just after Elon Musk had bought Twitter, I wrote that having him responsible for an important part of the world\u2019s public sphere could turn out to be \u201clike entrusting a …<\/p>\n

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