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太长了，先放前四段的。
A Global Town Square is A Terrible Idea, Elon
Blissful ignorance of other people’s politics is far better for society than hate-generating tweets.
Blissful: completely or extremely happy
Blissful holiday/children
He remains characteristically confident and optimistic.
Immodest: have too high an option of yourself
新闻稿：press release
一贯的不谦虚：characteristically immodest
推特的新老板：Twitter’s new pro-pri-e-tor
Elon Musk
Describes his social network as important to the future of civilization.
Rather,相当
Which rather takes the shine/ sheen off civilization.
In one’s opinion,
What civilization requires is a common digital town square where a wide range of beliefs can be debated.
The storms of bad temper (that greeted musk’s takeover) swirled around the same theme.
Twitter, newly sentimentalized as a precious democratic forum, ‘
Has fallen into the hands of a bad actor.
Outrage at：many people expressed outrage at the court’s decision.
Ingeniously
Disguise: they try to disguise the truth. she usually goes out in disguise to avoid being bothered by her fans.
Tens of thousands of
The outraged and fearful
Has fled to
Ingeniously disguised alternatives
Such as sth, a social network where users send not tweets but toots.
Echo chamber effect: when one experiences a biased and tailored experience that eliminates opposing viewpoints and differing voice. Due to social media algorithms that ensure we only see media that fits our preferences, we have found ourselves in a comfortable, self-conforming feed.
In his statement, Musk warned that the alternative to a town square was a society divided into far right-wing and far left-wing echo chamber that generate more hate and divide our society.
表示反对：
In fact this has things precisely backwards.
The idea that society needs a town square is a fallacy of recent invention.
It is a common fallacy that women are worse driver than men.
It is not necessary that citizens debate with one another on digital networks of vast scale. Successful democracies require voters to live in relative ignorance of one another.
Citizens/voters
