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David Schwartz criticizes Elon Musk for his intention to absorb Twitter
Ripple chief Technology Officer David Schwartz commented on Elon Musk's recent tweet, and expressed his opinion on the recent attempt to seize Twitter by the head of Tesla.
Ripple's CTO accused the billionaire of wanting to use the social media giant to "better relate to the political speeches he prefers."
The word of Ripple's technical director against the word of Elon Musk
David Schwartz responded to yesterday's tweet by the Tesla boss, in which the billionaire offered his vision of the optimal moderation policy for any social media platform.
Musk recently offered to buy Twitter at $54.20 for more than $41 billion in cash to make the company private. Prior to that, he also tweeted that he was seriously considering creating his own social network, which shows that the richest man in the world may want to expand his influence beyond the areas in which he currently works, which are space, electric cars and Internet connectivity.
It seems that most people on Twitter support Musk and his attempt to take over Twitter; however, many are against it, and the CTO of Ripple is one of them.
Responding to Musk's aforementioned tweet that "10 percent of the left and right" are "equally unhappy," Schwartz criticized the idea. He stated that it benefits "unreasonable people" and "will punish reasonable people" on social networks.
This is an incredibly bad policy that works absurdly badly. He rewards unreasonable people and punishes reasonable ones. And if there's one lesson to be learned from economics, it's that people respond to incentives.
In a tweet published later, Ripple's CTO stated that Musk's goal is not to create the best conditions for freedom of speech.
Schwartz believes that in fact, the billionaire, as a major shareholder of Twitter, is trying to change Twitter's moderation policy in order to get better conditions for political sayings that he approves of and "worse attitude" to political speeches that he does not support.
However, he is not trying to make Twitter a better place for free speech. He is trying to promote Twitter's moderation policy in order to treat political statements that he approves better and treat political views that he disapproves worse. 1/2
In addition, Schwartz said that Musk may have low competence in matters of moderation in social networks and has never talked to anyone from this area.
Indeed, it seems that Musk has literally never talked to anyone who has ever dealt with the problems of moderation on social networks, and just lists offhand all the policies that seem good to those who do not understand the problems at all.
