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CHRIS ROPER: Elon Musk and the extremes of ego
The entrepreneur’s play for social media platform Twitter is no attempt to safeguard free speech. It’s about the power to impose his way of thinking on everyone else
21 April 2022 - 05:00
Once in a generation, a special person comes along — someone kissed by the gods; whose every venture turns to gold. Someone who is so incredibly annoying, so full of himself, that major corporations want to kill him. One such person is Elon Musk.
I can’t have been the only one who read the recent news that the Twitter board is considering giving Musk a poison pill and thought: “Whoa! That’s a bit extreme. I mean, none of us condones violence. But really, in this case, who would blame them?”..
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