Musk Rat

Elon Musk has pole-vaulted over the shark.

Not content with being the first person to found an automobile company in America to compete  successfully with Detroit's Big Three since the heyday of American Motors, the billionaire entrepreneur, no the owner of Twitter, has banned reporters' accounts in retaliation for providing "assassination coordinates" against his person.

What? Let me explain.  There is a Web site that follows Musk's private airplane in real time.  Musk didn't like being followed around online, so he banned the site's Twitter account.  He then turned against numerous journalists by banning them, including CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, for reporting this information - information that is already available without the help of reporters - when all they did was mention that this site tracking Musk's plane exists.  In other words, Musk was accusing these reporters of being the ones who are making it easy for someone who wants to kill him to find him. 

It got worse.  Musk also banned these reporters from Twitter because he said they "doxxed" him - "doxxing" is the practice of giving out someone's address and telephone number - when these reporters did no such thing.  They did, however, write articles criticizing Musk and some of his business decisions, and so his ban of these reporters was clearly meant to punish them for insulting him - which flies in the face of Musk's promise to make Twitter a haven for all free speech.

But after a Twitter poll taken to gauge users' thoughts n the matter, 59 percent of Twitter users who responded voted for reinstating the reporters, which Musk has done this morning - except for Keith Olbermann, who says he might sue.

I was ready not to post anything on Twitter until reporters were reinstated, and now that Musk has done so, my 24-hour boycott is over,  But if Musk goes even farther, I just might quit Twitter altogether - in which case I'll be down to promoting this blog on LinkedIn and Tribel.  And don't be surprised if I appear on the new social media site Mastodon soon.