Twitter, for all its imperfections, has been the closest anyone has ever come to creating a genuinely free and open public square. Free speech -- folks, this is it. This is what it's like. Guess we couldn't handle it. That's fine. Wrap it up, Elon. We're done here.

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 3, 2022

Some web-servers and an app owned by a private company were once like what a public park could have been if any city had ever built one.  

The academic hatred of politics. The myopia of the library rat who's never been in a schoolyard. Better or worse than Borges and Nietzsche, who worshipped soulful barbarians, the ballers in the playground, from the window? Better than Musk? The same shit: moralizing authoritarianism.

Musk, Oct. 27th

Dear Twitter Advertisers

I wanted to reach out personally to share my motivation in acquiring Twitter. There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong. 

The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society. 

Nov. 4th

Why is small talk even legal!?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

Vincent Bevins, Feb. 24th, 2021. "I'm sorry but,What?"