[michaelwww]

I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.

[rybosome]

The shit hitting the fan on election night will not be limited to Twitter. Expect chaos in meatspace, exacerbated in part by Twitter.

[alwillis]

Right.

There are some people who may decide to not vote due to what they’re seeing on Twitter in places where it may matter.

[commandlinefan]

I think it’s depressing that droves of people are leaving Twitter because they believe that they might tone down all the censorship.

[michaelwww]

I get what you're saying but I don't think it's that depressing or surprising, but that's a big discussion better had in other places.

[Zigurd]

It also isn't as if Elon was just thumbing his nose at naysayers. A day earlier he pledged to advertisers Twitter would not become a "free for all hellscape."

Now that's the new tagline.

[michaelwww]

It will be easy to switch to another platform and there will be tools to help as this post indicates. 4chan users are having fun saying the N word on Twitter and Le Bron James is complaining about it. And this is only day 2. I certainly think people should be able to exercise free speech, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to it. I can go somewhere else if Twitter gets too depressing.

[fazfq]

>The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it.

What exactly is he supposed to do? I don't see how Nov 8 is megacorp's business.

[michaelwww]

> What exactly is he supposed to do?

When Twitter is flooded with threats of violence and calls to form mobs will he just do nothing? Is that what you are suggesting? He can take the site dark if he wants and he may have to.

[wrycoder]

How about closing Twitter for three days, starting two days before the election. Twiliday for the staff!

[mjmsmith]

I'd be reassured just knowing that he won't use his megacorp megaphone to amplify obvious misinformation about the results of the election, but given the last 24 hours, even that appears to be too much to hope for.