{"id":624018,"date":"2022-04-26T10:39:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the.ink\/p\/elon-musk-is-a-problem-masquerading"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T10:39:40","slug":"elon-musk-is-a-problem-masquerading-as-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/04\/26\/elon-musk-is-a-problem-masquerading-as-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is a problem masquerading as a solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?&#8221;<\/p><p>Thus begins my quickly turned around guest essay in this morning&#8217;s New York Times about Musk, the arsonist-to-firefighter pipeline, and why truly free speech is what the Musks of the world fear.<\/p><p>Check it out here:<\/p><div class=\"tweet\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1518889626127196161?s=21&amp;t=IjHS-6pQcIaHVtCz3bWldw&quot;,&quot;full_text&quot;:&quot;&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way,&#8221; writes <span class=\\&quot;tweet-fake-link\\&quot;>@AnandWrites<\/span>. &#8220;We can have nice things. But we&#8217;re going to have to learn to see through the fraudulent stories that elevate figures like Musk into heroes.&#8221; &quot;,&quot;username&quot;:&quot;nytopinion&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;New York Times Opinion&quot;,&quot;date&quot;:&quot;Tue Apr 26 09:48:01 +0000 2022&quot;,&quot;photos&quot;:[],&quot;quoted_tweet&quot;:{},&quot;retweet_count&quot;:20,&quot;like_count&quot;:69,&quot;expanded_url&quot;:{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/nyti.ms\/38kp1CW&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1cf35b35-8165-43bd-81b4-3b76f2009442_1050x550.jpeg&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?&quot;,&quot;domain&quot;:&quot;nyti.ms&quot;},&quot;video_url&quot;:null}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1518889626127196161?s=21&amp;t=IjHS-6pQcIaHVtCz3bWldw\" ><div class=\"tweet-header\"><img class=\"tweet-user-avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/twitter_name\/w_36\/nytopinion.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter avatar for @nytopinion\"><span class=\"tweet-author-name\">New York Times Opinion <\/span><span class=\"tweet-author\">@nytopinion<\/span><\/div>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way,&#8221; writes <span class=\"tweet-fake-link\">@AnandWrites<\/span>. &#8220;We can have nice things. But we&#8217;re going to have to learn to see through the fraudulent stories that elevate figures like Musk into heroes.&#8221; <a class=\"expanded-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nyti.ms\/38kp1CW\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_600,h_314,c_fill,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1cf35b35-8165-43bd-81b4-3b76f2009442_1050x550.jpeg\" class=\"expanded-link-img\"><span class=\"expanded-link-title\">Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution<\/span><span class=\"expanded-link-description\">What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?<\/span><span class=\"expanded-link-domain\">nyti.ms<\/span><\/a><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1518889626127196161?s=21&amp;t=IjHS-6pQcIaHVtCz3bWldw\" ><div class=\"tweet-footer\"><p class=\"tweet-date\">April 26th 2022<\/p><span class=\"retweets\"><span class=\"rt-count\">20<\/span> Retweets<\/span><span class=\"likes\"><span class=\"like-count\">69<\/span> Likes<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/the.ink\/p\/elon-musk-is-a-problem-masquerading\">The.Ink<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?\u201d Thus begins my quickly turned around guest essay in this morning\u2019s New York Times about Musk, the arsonist-to-firefighter pipeline, and why truly free speech is what the Musks of the world fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740462,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624018\/revisions\/740462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}