Or He Could Be Running Tesla....

Twitter is so amazing because the richest, most powerful people in the world who could be doing absolutely anything with their time CANNOT stop logging on and getting kicked in the balls

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) December 16, 2022

Like he could just log off and go fly to the Riviera and sunbathe, and he's ON TWITTER having the worst night of his life completely by choice.

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) December 16, 2022

...or SpaceX or Neuralink or The Boring Company....

Lol

(“Promoted”) pic.twitter.com/AcmqLFo9n5

— Stina Sternberg (@StinaSternberg) December 16, 2022

...or just retweeting the Motley Fool.

Some Twitter thoughts:

1. Elon Musk owns the company and has the right to do what he wants with it (within the law).

If he wants to come up with flimsy pretexts to suspend critics, he can do that. There's not much point to examining the rationale he uses to backfill his whims.

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 16, 2022

The EU would like to remind Musk that Twitter is an international company:

News about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying. EU’s Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our #MediaFreedomAct. @elonmusk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.

— Věra Jourová (@VeraJourova) December 16, 2022

And interestingly, in Germany, "freedom of speech" can run into "Freedom to do whatever the hell you want as an internet platform."

#Pressefreiheit darf nicht nach Belieben ein- und ausgeschaltet werden. Unten stehende Journalisten können auch uns ab heute nicht mehr folgen, kommentieren und kritisieren. Damit haben wir ein Problem @Twitter. pic.twitter.com/Cliuih8Gyq

— Auswärtiges Amt (@AuswaertigesAmt) December 16, 2022

"#FreedomOfThePress must not be switched on and off at will," the ministry tweeted. "As of today, the journalists below can no longer follow, comment or criticize us. We have a problem with that."

That should be a US policy, too. Funny that it isn't. (I know that sounds like "socialism," but it's perfectly within the confines of basic contract law to allow users of the platform certain fundamental privileges that would limit arbitrary suspension without notice or viable recourse.) In the meantime, there's no such thing as bad publicity:

actual #bestofdyingtwitter 🤌🏼 pic.twitter.com/9yscRVfR74

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 16, 2022