From the Editorial Board: The problem with having all the money in the world, it seems, is that your attention span quickly dwindles. Today’s billionaires are revealing themselves to be restless creatures, unwilling to fully sustain their enterprises.
Elon Musk poses with the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2018.
While some forms of speech — most notably, explicit threats of violence — obviously need controls on all channels, the bar should be far higher than previously was the case at Twitter, especially when it comes to conservative points of view.The emergency posed by the pandemic and the need for accurate public health messaging certainly complicated what always have been difficult issues in this free society. But squelching reasoned, dissenting voices did us no good whatsoever. It rarely does.
Moreover, many of the irony-free Twitter users who made public declarations of their exit, only to then stick around for fear of missing out, have become tiresome. There is much to admired about a bold individual fighting against legions of less courageous folks who only want to follow the courage of their convictions if they know an entire school of fish is swimming the same way.
The craziness continued. On Sunday, Musk posted a Twitter poll asking users if he should step down and promising to abide by the answer. He was told to go. By Monday, he said he wanted to change the universe of who was eligible to vote, making a mockery of a free election he had set up himself. Not so long ago, Bezos talked of reimagining the storied paper as a center of technology and media innovation. Now he is far less visible on matters pertaining to the newspaper. “Bezos is focused on other things,” Max Tani wrote recently in the publication Semafor, “literally too far out in space, as one Post employee noted, to pay much attention.”
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