Sufficient incompetence can be indistinguishable from malice. For example, it's possible Elon may have fired all the teams that review and push back on government complaints -- effectively ensuring that any large government can report and block tweets through a portal that has no reviewing staff. Even if true, the fact that Elon did this through ineptitude would not change the final result, namely that foreign governments can now block Tweets in the USA at will, with little oversight and pushback from Twitter.
Perhaps such incompetence will be corrected. But it is definitely worrying that Twitter has continued to keep the content blocked even after multiple news articles brought it to public attention. To me that takes it from "whoopsy daisy we made a mistake" to "we do not intend to/are not capable of correcting this mistake." One can apply the principle of charity too liberally.
Perhaps such incompetence will be corrected. But it is definitely worrying that Twitter has continued to keep the content blocked even after multiple news articles brought it to public attention. To me that takes it from "whoopsy daisy we made a mistake" to "we do not intend to/are not capable of correcting this mistake." One can apply the principle of charity too liberally.