Commentary I have no idea what Elon Musk plans for Twitter now that he has turned down a seat on the board of the social media company. (Social media? How did these companies get that name? They are anything but social. They should be called anomie media, as in “lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.”) Maybe Musk himself doesn’t know what he plans. He could sell his stock or he could make an attempt to buy the company to run it. Who knows? That latter may be a case of what we used to call in the schoolyard “no backsies.” Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal seems to have as much respect for the Bill of Rights as Pol Pot. Sound like an exaggeration? Maybe a little, but in 2018, Agrawal said Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how times have changed,” according to …
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