by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
"Garbage in, garbage out" is an old business axiom implying that if you use garbage in the creative or manufacturing process, chances are you will wind up creating garbage. Conversely, quality inputs would be far more likely to create quality outputs.
However, Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, apparently does not subscribe to the notion that using commonsense might benefit his struggling social media acquisition. He is, after all, the Elon Musk, and he will do things his way, thank you very much.
The old Twitter showed uncommonly good sense nearly two years ago when it permanently banned Donald Trump from the platform after he openly condoned the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6th as they stormed the Capitol and tried to bring down democracy. When Musk announced that he was trying to buy Twitter earlier this year he made some preemptive noises about allowing Trump back on his favorite social media site, but Musk eventually backed off saying that the matter would be left up to a "special moderation board." Musk apparently changed his mind last week and decided to put the matter to a special poll on Twitter.
Donald Trump, while promising not to leave his perch on his own "Truth Social," asked his supporters to go over to Twitter and vote for his reinstatement - but even with Trump's overt support, the matter barely passed with just 51.8% of respondents signaling a preference for Trump to return to his former favorite social loudspeaker.
But it was enough for Musk to bellow this morning that "the people have spoken" and announce that he was reinstating Trump's Twitter account.
Boys and their toys! Elon Musk gave $44 billion for his Twitter toy, and now, mere weeks later, he has almost completely destroyed it. By all means bring Trump back in, Elon. If you are going to produce garbage you might as well go for the gold standard!
R.I.P., Twitter.
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