It would be quite the improvement over the reality.

Harris looked like he could handle himself.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

This wasn't even the 1st of April: [Link]

Red and Blue Army!

Twitter has already crumpled several careers; more freedom of speech for attention desperate celebrities and politicians is just giving them more rope.

There has to be a degree of moderation yes, else everything ends up lowest common denominator. Those looking to perpetually, intentionally agitate will likely will weeded out, alongside rule ensuring adherence to law. Beyond that I'm sure he'll push forward with ID being connected to accounts which will get rid of an awful lot of the nonsense, dissuade a decent percentage of cowards from mouthing off, shut down bots etc. In theory it should encourage more considered debate and diversity of opinion but time will tell - after all it is Twitter!

Yes, I'd agree that getting rid of bots will make a real difference and that an independent and balanced fact check type system will likely still be in place to highlight or downgrade otherwise popular posts that are blatantly false (though i think there should be a high threshold to what is considered false, to avoid it being too opinion based).

There are (less popular) social networks out there that actively encourage commonality and elevate common ground rather than either put people at loggerheads or make simplistic echo chamber outlooks overly attractive which is the current business model. That would be a useful departure from what we currently see, but ultimately as Musk has significant control it will probably come down to using it whatever way he feels is personally beneficial to himself and his businesses.

One nation conservatives, like me, stand on the central political ground. We are centre right, whilst people like Blair are centre left. Both often have more in common with each other than those on the extremities.

When I speak of the "right" I am describing those on the extreme who self identify that way, or who try to camouflage themselves in cute marketing terminology, like "nationalist", "alt-right", "patriotic-alternative", etc.

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I don't know how old you are, but I spent the first half of my life with a Tory Party that might have been traditional, but also had morals and standards of what being in public life meant. That was a one Nation party.

I respected that Party and voted for it many times. Thatcher destroyed some of that respect, even if there were things she did that were absolutely necessary. It was Thatcher who, in my opinion, and with hindsight, started us on the course which brought us to where we are today. Her "there's no such thing as society", privatisation of essential national assets and the selling off of council houses, can now be seen as the precursors of many of today's ills.

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