Banning TikTok is silly. Twitter — and new owner Elon Musk — is what everyone should be worried about.
There are few sane headlines of late when it comes to social media. And if there are, they’re probably about Facebook, which is just a sign of how weird things have gotten.
There’s a legitimate argument to be made there, knee-jerk though it may be. And it’s entirely possible that the supposed security implication isn’t even the part anyone should be focused on. We just don’t know what tomorrow’s dumb thing will be, and that’s the scary part. Musk has had no problem disclosing Twitter’s preacquisition internal communications. How long will it be before he decides to just spew out someone’s direct messages for the lulz? Or because they were tracking his corporate jet via publicly available means? Or because they dared to disagree with the king?
And the conversation gets even starker when Fourth Amendment expert Orin Kerr weighs in on the Stored Communications Act. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Just ask Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust and Safety. He’s currently in an undisclosed location, having been forced to flee his home as a result of Musk’s despicable antics.
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