Oh, I agree that it was a bad idea for Musk to say that. It isn’t how one maximizes Twitter’s profits; scandalized European regulators can create expensive problems and advertisers won’t want to be associated with such language. These might be sacrifices that a principled person would accept in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, but Musk isn’t such a person. I’m not really sure why he does what he does. However, he’s not wasting my money so I can just sit back and enjoy the show.
(Also, if a principled person were to risk huge sums of money in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, could he be a little more eloquent? There’s an art to using profanity well, and this isn’t an example of that art.)
Oh, I agree that it was a bad idea for Musk to say that. It isn’t how one maximizes Twitter’s profits; scandalized European regulators can create expensive problems and advertisers won’t want to be associated with such language. These might be sacrifices that a principled person would accept in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, but Musk isn’t such a person. I’m not really sure why he does what he does. However, he’s not wasting my money so I can just sit back and enjoy the show.
(Also, if a principled person were to risk huge sums of money in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, could he be a little more eloquent? There’s an art to using profanity well, and this isn’t an example of that art.)