Football stadium is a better metaphor for twitter than public square. It’s just that the field itself is shrunken to nothing and the spectator sport is watching the stands across from you.
National Sousveillance League.
This is not a freeze-peach buyout proposal so much as a “use the stadium for hockey instead of football” type proposal. But since there’s no actual arena in the center, it amounts to “sell tickets to my kind of people and encourage the current fans to go build a different thing”
It’s a private sports league company, so they can do what they want, and I’ll take my stock cash-out and go, but I am pretty sure that more people want to play the current sport than the one Elon wants to see being played here, which means net shrinkage not expansion
I mean there’s a reason besides technical incompetence that things like Parler and Gab never really took off. A right-leaning thing that panders to free speech conceits of the classical-liberal-to-fascist half of the spectrum is a really boring non-spectacle
If you mean things like Cloudflare cutting them off from CDN support etc, that’s a case for antitrust actions perhaps, or something like common-carrier/net neutrality type protections. Then they can sink or swim on their own ability to actually run social platforms.
I struggle to reconcile the sudden move against Parler by AWS . Another hit was the withdrawal of payment gateway providers. I'd expect a judgement of malfeasance followed by a court order before such utility services are withdrawn.
But that would need to respect a business as an ongoing concern – at least to fund legal expenses. I suspect Musk's proposal will be celebrated by some as the "if they won't let you build it, acquire it instead" attack.