Normally I'm inclined to give benefit of doubt on product vision to founders/company even for social products. Opinionated design beats "user-driven" design. But when you start throwing terms like "public," "town square," "citizen" and "democracy" around, the game rules change.
I don't think the *current* real public wants what Elon claims it wants. But hey, exits and entries can make the two line up. So let's see how the "public" shifts in response to the Menckenian democracy being implemented here.
HL Mencken wrote the following in "Bayard v Lionheart" in the Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920.
(This thread has veered from poetry to art to more prosaic matters. Politics can be all of those at once. And do not get smug thinking this was about the USA alone.)