Comment by Maximum Liberty on Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

[Maximum Liberty]

I’m going to speculate based on inadequate knowledge because that’s what comments are for.

I see Musk’s investments being tied together by addressing risk to human survival. We have to electrify cars to avoid global warming. We have to get humanity off earth. Etc.

The only way Twitter fits in to that theme is if he believed that the threat to open and civilized dialogue in the leading economy in the world was somehow threatened by the content moderation policies of the two biggest social media companies, and that the threat would result in government policies that were so much worse for technology and growth that humanity would stagnate before reaching the stars. That feels like a long stretch to me. But maybe it doesn’t inside Musk’s head.