Buy Twitter Just to Shut it Down

in FreeSpeech2 years ago

There is some speculation that Elon Musk will buy Twitter. There's other speculation about Musk starting his own micro-blogging platform to compete against Twitter.

Really though such a thing is not a binary choice. What I would like to see happen is someone whether it be Elon Musk or someone else with the money buying Twitter and then shutting it down while launching a new micro-blogging site. To me Twitter is just too toxic to try to ameliorate. It would be better to just shift the user database to a brand new site and start new. The old posts can be archived on a subdomain of the new site but I would lock it so nobody including the new site administrators can edit it. When people complain about the radical upheaval all that would need to be done is to point out that is what a centralized site gets you but Twitter has always been built on open source so go do your own thing and stop complaining.

Buying Twitter just to shut it down while starting a new platform doesn't mean abandoning the trademarks and other intellectual property. Twitter.com could be used to sell drones made to look like birds. The URL could be redirected to another site. Elon Musk could buy Twitter and have the twitter.com site look like that South Park parody is now a legitimate Neuralink product for the memes.

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Any place very very (VERY) large groups of humans gather is going to be filled with nonsense just like Twitter is. In short, if Twitter somehow was bought and shut down or if another new Twitter emerged its likely we eventually get to the same issues we encounter with todays Twitter/Facebook or any other large site of the same nature..

If I accept the premise that outliers make a large group toxic then should I believe that hive.blog having a growth of active members is a bad thing because it would inevitably become a worse platform?

Depends on what you mean by growth (HIVE is awesome but has plenty of room for different levels of growth). In any group that is large enough there will be toxic people. Naturally the bigger the group the larger the potential for toxic people. Which is why we see so many on Twitter and Facebook or any other top media site we can name such as YouTube. There is a quote that for some reason escapes me at current time but the underline message is, if we put three people on a deserted island , two of those people will find a reason to "group" against the third. HIVE or any other form of social media site isn't going to break the mold of Humans being Humans.