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What is a Thunderbird? According to Wikipedia: "In Algonquian mythology, the thunderbird controls the upper world..." Its wings create thunder, while its eyes shoot lightning. What does this have to do with email, exactly?
So here we have the color purple, an angry (vicious?) creature that looks like it is devouring your communications, and, as usual, a triangle in a circle. Nothing new under the sun.
I could care less about who is in charge of Twitter or if there is such a platform.
Twitter is a private corporation and therefore has no legal obligation to provide nor promote "free speech." To imply that it has this authority is to flatter it, over-state its power, and misrepresent it as having any interest in or obligation to the US Constitution, which it clearly does not.
That said, prior to Musk, the Twitter owners/leaders behaved terribly by "de-platforming" voices and sources of information. In so doing they debased themselves, demonstrating that they have no moral compass and demolishing what little trust there was in the technocracy and its faux institutions.
Musk claims to intend to restore "trust" in Twitter (I guess for those naive bubble people who obediently believe everything they read on the Internet). I could care less if he means what he says.
But Musk's stated positive mission is there for all to witness. So I don't get why he's being pilloried for it. What's all the clamor about? Just another stage-play from the Drama Dept, I imagine.