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What to Expect from a Musk Led Twitter

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  In short? It becomes just like a CITY! Seriously. The Smart City theme is everywhere. Even here.  Elon Musk now owns Twitter.   Anyone would swear it were some Armageddon level event; an end of the world scenario? Threats of multiple migration toward exodus; political meltdowns and so on.  People are forgetting a few critical points, there: 1: Musk is a POST Ideological figure.   His concern is about FREEDOM. Liberation from needless cost, concern, red tape and so on.  Now, whilst of course no science, tech or business can be truly 'neutral' at a moral level, it is spectacularly unfair to paint Elon as some agent for the resurgent right wing.  FREE speech means just that: FREE (as in, unfettered) but also SPEECH (as in aiding communication, commerce and evading the destructive trolling of old) .  Ergo.. 2: Twitter becomes a truly 'open' space.  Much like what we said about Facebook last week: think upon a social media platform as a virtual ...