 So, back in April of last year, Jack Dorsey, who created Twitter, endorsed Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform. Writing in April of 2022, quote, in principle, I don't believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at the protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company, however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness. Fast forward to today and Jack Dorsey is now backtracking because he acknowledges that Elon Musk has been a complete disaster for the platform that he created. CNN explains. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey backtracked Saturday on his earlier endorsement of Elon Musk as the right choice to lead the company. Speaking out against the billionaire who, for the past six months, has led Twitter through a series of largely self-inflicted crises. Asked on BlueSky, Dorsey's new Twitter-like social media venture, whether he believed Musk has been the best possible steward of Twitter, Dorsey said flatly, no. Dorsey added that Musk should have walked away from acquiring Twitter for $44 billion and faulted Twitter's board in hindsight for trying to compel Musk to follow through with the deal despite Musk's attempts to back out of the purchase last year. Quote, it all went south, Dorsey said, but it happened and all we can do now is build something to avoid that ever happening again. So that is his polite way of saying, yeah, his takeover has been a complete fucking disaster and I was absolutely wrong about Elon Musk. And I feel like what he said about Elon Musk just makes me believe that this man is a weirdo, right? He created a platform that is good. I mean, Twitter even before Elon Musk has brought a lot of us lots of misery, right? But I mean, he created something that without a doubt is used by a lot of people and it has been, I think good for democracy overall. It gave voices to people in authoritarian countries who wouldn't otherwise be able to get the word out. So I mean, Twitter has been instrumental in elevating political discourse in a multitude of ways, even if it kind of feels on this smaller level that it brings us all down. But at the same time, like to think that Elon Musk would extend the light of consciousness is just bizarre. Like I, for one, I honestly didn't think that Elon Musk would be as big of a disaster as he is. My response to Elon Musk acquiring Twitter, if you go back and watch those videos was, yeah, I'd prefer that he didn't do that. But I mean, at the end of the day, I don't necessarily think that he would substantially change the way that the platform functions, because this is a businessman who wants to make money. So all this talk about free speech and all this bullshit, he is going to make some minimal changes, some tweaks around the edges, but largely keep things the same. But I was wrong in the sense that it got worse. Like to be this supposed warrior for free speech, and we now see more censorship on the platform is not necessarily something that I expected. I just assumed that there would be less bans for right wingers, less enforcement of hate speech policies. And there has been, but like to the extent that he has turned the platform into a hellscape, especially for marginalized people, namely trans people. That's the understatement of the sanctuary because he destroyed the fucking platform and it's basically parlor. That's what it is. Now, what's bizarre is that Elon Musk is still pretending to run Twitter in this altruistic neutral way, so as to promote the political viewpoints of everyone and encourage discussion. But that hasn't happened. And he's turned Twitter into a right wing hellscape specifically by fostering that kind of environment. Like Twitter is the way that it is currently because of what he did, who he interacts with. I mean, now verified users who are mostly conservatives or Elon sims are promoted by the algorithm. So you'll see them more and their posts are not good, but that's what the algorithm is pushing. He also interacts almost exclusively with right wingers like Tim Pull, Libs of TikTok, and he even pays for exclusive tweets for Libs of TikTok. This is a hate account that inspired a bomb threat against the Boston Children's Hospital, over lies that they spread on that very platform. But Elon Musk, the owner of this platform is paying for that person's tweets when they should be banned. He also purged leftist accounts. He censored posts at the behest of right wing governments, censors posts at the behest of literal Nazis trying to hide their calls for genocide. I talked about that last week. And in addition to all of that, the platform barely fucking functions. But yet in an interview with Bill Maher, he talked about his takeover of Twitter and he discussed it in a way that suggests that none of us saw what transpired over the last several months. Let me tell you what I mean by that. Let's watch. You know, my concern with Twitter was to that it is somewhat of the digital town square. And it's important that there be both the reality and perception of trust for a wide range of viewpoints. And there was a lot of censorship going on. And we sort of uncovered a lot of that with the Twitter files, including a lot of government-driven censorship, which seems like that's got to be a constitutional violation of what was going on there. But so since I'm like an avid Twitter user, I could detect that something's not right here. And so that's really why I did that position. It wasn't because I thought this was an easy way to make money or something like that. Man, this is being mayor of Twitter town, Tweet town or whatever. It's definitely like there's a lot of arrows pointed at you, flying at you. Of course. See, what he said there is only persuasive, one, if you're naive and two, if he didn't already purchase Twitter and wasn't already running it into the ground. But as avid Twitter users currently criticize him for running the platform into the ground, rather than listening to their constructive criticism, he tries to portray himself as like some sort of a persecuted victim who's just trying to restore civility to the town square and lift up everyone's voices. But you can't say that because that's not what happened. You're not running Twitter in a neutral way and you're not promoting free speech. You are a sensorious bastard and you're as bad as the previous Twitter regime was. This is what your own Sims tell you. Barry Weiss even called you out for this. So anyone with the brain who uses Twitter can see that Elon Musk very clearly has been bad for the platform. I mean, how many people has he fired when he went there? How many actual engineers who are needed for the platform to function stably? Has he let go because what they criticized him or something? It's just it's ridiculous. So I mean, it's I'm glad that Jack Dorsey is finally acknowledging that this was a huge mistake. But at the same time, it shouldn't have taken him this long. But I mean, I'm glad. Welcome to the party to the party Jack. I'm glad that you see that Elon Musk is a complete fucking moron now. But with that being said, Jack Dorsey created another platform. And that is blue sky and I'm on there and a lot of other lefties are on there. And it's much, much better than Twitter. It's still not to the point where we can abandon Twitter for blue sky because it's in its beta phase. And there's a lot of missing functionality. But in terms of just like the environment there, that actually feels like a real town squared, that actually feels like you can have conversations, engage with other people who might disagree with you. And it's not going to get super ugly. It's not going to lead to somebody, you know, harassing you. It's just it's a much better platform. I'm sure that as it grows, that will change as well. But one thing I can guarantee is that it's almost impossible for blue sky to be ran as poorly as Twitter with Elon Musk at the helm. So either way, it's just funny that Jack Dorsey went from trusting Elon Musk only with Twitter to now saying, Oh my God, yeah, he's been a disaster too. Yeah, he's been a complete fucking disaster. And it just shows you that just because you have money doesn't mean that you're smart and you're competent.