An Australian business is the latest in an ever-growing list of companies taking Elon Musk's Twitter to court over alleged unpaid bills after the US billionaire paid $US44 billion for the social media platform last year.
It does feel a little like “capture and kill” by Musk. Previous Twitter management wasn’t great, but the outsized influence of the platform has been well noted. It’s place in organising against dictatorships and preventing censorship (previously) has also been probably a net positive. All of that is gone with Musk at ENORMOUS cost.
When you overpaid…you might as well run it down quickly and move on.
Meanwhile he takes down the “left’s propeganda tool” but unwittingly spurs the further adoption of decentralised tools.
It does feel a little like “capture and kill” by Musk. Previous Twitter management wasn’t great, but the outsized influence of the platform has been well noted. It’s place in organising against dictatorships and preventing censorship (previously) has also been probably a net positive. All of that is gone with Musk at ENORMOUS cost.