Maybe in the social circles you stick to, but there are plenty of /other/ people (i.e. more than a "few") that are quite happy that the 80% of employees doing their jobs were let go. [1]
'Matt Taibbi, a journalist who worked on the “Twitter Files” series of articles about old business decisions at Twitter, has said he’ll no longer use the social media platform. Taibbi is apparently frustrated by Twitter’s recent decision to heavily restrict all links and tweets about Substack following that company’s announcement it would be launching Substack Notes, a short form social network and potential competitor to Twitter. Any Twitter user who even tries to retweet a post from Substack is met with a notification, “some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter,” a move that has angered many users, including Taibbi.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/07/twitter-fi...
Not specifically. That's why I linked to content from him, and not his profile page.
We accept speech we don't like to avoid this very trap.
Oddly enough, he tends to favor hate groups and dictators: “Twitter’s compliance with government demands for censorship or surveillance has risen [during Musk’s tenure] to over 80%, from around 50%.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna81961
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/elon-musk-free-speec...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zm9q/elon-musk-twitter-naz...
Few would argue that it works better now than before
> Perhaps its just that people don’t like his personality, I suppose it's more complicated:
- he promised "freedom of speech" and Twitter has rather become "freedom of hate"
- he is taking constantly controversial political positions, usually favoring dictators, and this doesn't resonate very well in the western world
Maybe people just wish he would have stayed the way he was: a sort of fascinating "Doc Brown" rather than yet another average billionaire pushing political ideas through his wealth and popularity.