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Elon Bans Comedy

Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool
Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool (Getty Images)

ELON DURING A RECENT CONFERENCE CALL: Hey gang, soooo I just spent the GDP of a small nation on a major tech platform that also happens to be a global cess pool for misinformation and propaganda. I’ve also made vague rhetorical gestures to the fact that bots are bad and have said I’d clean this place up when I took over. So, uh, yeah, what do we think is the most effective way to do that? Hmm…ban parody accounts, you say? You mean the accounts that everybody knows are fake and therefore don’t pose any sort of informational threat to anybody? That’s interesting. Is there any way this is both ineffective and counterproductive to our espoused “freedom of speech” goals? It’s not? Oh, okay. Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s do it right now. [Warning: This is, in fact, a parody]