And the ability to do this is bad, but it's also just normal capitalism which Elon supports. I'm okay with capitalism shifting capitalism supporters.

It's also a choice that Twitter made long ago to be funded primarily by advertisers. You'd think the guy that blew billions on the site might have noticed that during the due diligence he most certainly did

Except it shifts the ones with power towards authoritarianism, not reflection.

I mean, it's just freedom of association. There are only very limited circumstances where a company can be forced to advertise somewhere (only example I can think of is tobacco and alcohol companies required to pay for anti-smoking/drinking/etc PSAs as part of legal settlements).

Which is fine when it's about people listening to you, but bad when livelihoods depend on it. We can do better.

livelihoods? didn't he fire most of the employees at Twitter? what about their livelihoods?

> you'd think that in becoming a billionaire, he'd have picked up a few rules of business.

Are you telling me that in your opinion Musk doesn't have elementary knowledge about business?

he signed a deal to buy twitter and didn't realise he'd have to buy it.

he told his advertisers to go f*ck themselves then sued then for not using his personal blog to advertise.

it seems that the businesses he has the least involvement in tend to do better, but what do I know, I'm just a poor rando.

Well, either that, or he's doing a very good job of cosplaying as such a person.