Archived version: https://archive.li/Yg8r8
My favorite part:
But while his reaction the day after learning that X was commandeering his handle was extreme frustration, Vaught told Ars that the platform will remain his primary form of social media.
“it’s highly annoying, but Twitter is still my preferred social media,” Vaught said. “That’s how I communicate and learn my news about what’s going on. Nothing else compares.”
His only “minor protest” to X’s action, he said, was to cancel his Twitter Blue subscription.
Vaught is mostly a Musk fan, as he’s interested in Musk’s electric cars and space developments. He said that this experience with X hasn’t tainted his opinion of Musk or his relationship too much with X as a platform. He’s holding out hope that Musk has a long-term plan for where Musk is taking X, but like many users, he’s struggling to adjust to the rebranding.
Well he’s clearly a jerk who doesn’t know when he should just stay silent but I guess this can partly be explained by the fact that he obviously has some form of autism/asberger or something.
I just don’t see anything that major in there. I can think of several worse people who don’t seem to be getting this level of hate so I find it curious what it is about Musk then that he does.
Firstly, being on the autism spectrum (not saying he is or isn’t) doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole, and I’m sure many people who are on it and aren’t assholes will tell you that this take is insulting.
Secondly, when you say there is nothing major on there, you have to keep in mind his level of reach and influence. If your neighbour says “this new Covid thing is going to just blow over, there’ll be no cases soon’”, you can say “OK buddy, hope you’re right but it’s not looking likely”. When Musk says it, he directly contributes massively to the misinformation that has killed a lot of people and changed the whole damn world for the worse
Yeah I agree that with a platform of this size it comes with huge responsibility aswell knowing your words have a real world consequences. Maybe that’s the explanation to the widespreat hate. People much worse than him generally don’t shitpost on social media so we’re not thinking about them
Because whenever there’s a fire, he throws gasoline on it like it’s his life goal to butt heads with the world. And he shows no respect to others, like suddenly taking a user’s username without asking and breaking stuff with no remorse.
Is he statistically the worst person in the world? Probably not. But he does his best to make people feel like he is.