TBH, I think Musk suspending all opposition accounts in the US would be beneficial. A remarkable number of non-Nazis have found excuses to keep using Twitter, and this would solve that problem.
That’s not how he’ll do it. He doesn’t need to suspend accounts; all he has to do is reduce their visibility. Specifically, he can adjust the algorithm so that centrist voters—those most likely to switch—no longer see popular tweets from the opposition. That is de facto censorship.
I was thinking the same when Erdogan arrested Istanbul’s mayor and presidential rival. We are not far behind the same tin-pot dictatorship. They all play from the same handbook.
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