Power to the people!
Elon Musk is No Friend of Freedom of Speech.
In defence of Zulie Rane’s idea to take Twitter.
Zulie Rane is one of the most beloved writers on Medium. She is well-known for her kindness towards helping new writers and for her beautiful and inspiring beliefs about how everyone that has a writing voice, should use it and make in turn the world better. But not only this, she also has a highly analytical and methodical mind, and all her pieces ooze with value, whichever one you happen to read. This week, she decided to write about the Musk-Twitter take-over, but from a perspective that so far the never ending pieces about the topic have failed to address: what would happen if users rebelled, and what would that look like?
But several users decided instead to misread the purpose of the piece, searching for some always-sweet controversy and headed to the comments’ section armed with the classic spikes and torches of a witch hunt. Zulie’s perspective was very clear:
“If, hypothetically, you wanted to ensure someone like Elon Musk never earned his $44 billion back, here’s how you occupy Twitter.”
Nevertheless, the reply comments include name-calling, finger-pointing, door-slams, and sheer outrage.
