[lentil]

He admits the company will die if advertisers pull out, and his solution is to document it and let the world know that the advertisers were the reason the company died.

Curse you advertisers for ruining his company!

[kmlevitt]

He seems to contradict himself. On one hand he says “fuck you“ to anybody pulling advertising like he’s throwing caution to the wind because he just doesn’t care, but on the other hand, he says the company is doomed if advertisers pull out, and that seems to really upset him.

So… Twitter is shutting down? There’s really no other plan other than blaming advertisers for pulling out, and ranting about how earth will judge them?

[Balgair]

> So… Twitter is shutting down?

One can only hope!

[reportgunner]

You're taking the "fuck you" out of context, blackmail is the keyword here.

> "If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself,"

[drewcoo]

More charitably, he's cornered, lashing out, and not making sense. None of us do when we're cornered.

His team is probably trying to figure out how to spin everything even as we write here.

On a positive note, he's reacting a lot like the rest of us and not like a totally gone sociopath - there's a human inside that billionaire!

[houseatrielah]

I pay Disney to make movies not to conspire with others to police global speech.

[FriedrichN]

When in doubt, blame your customers for not wanting your product. He's a true libertarian free speech absolutist alright.

[ulfw]

Even if this WERE true, it is an owner/CEO-all-but-in-name-only's job to make sure their owned company doesn't die.

So he fails on that too.

[Freedom2]

The impact to free speech will be insurmountable!