Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

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I think the conservative celebrations are premature. But you do you.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything comes full circle

Did the purchase go through yet? Elon was going to use his Tesla stock to pay for the purchase but the bottom dropped out of Tesla stock yesterday, probably because of the anticipated huge stock dump. The Tesla board can kick him off since he appears to be manipulating stock prices which is a breach of his fiduciary duty.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything comes full circle

Did the purchase go through yet? Elon was going to use his Tesla stock to pay for the purchase but the bottom dropped out of Tesla stock yesterday, probably because of the anticipated huge stock dump. The Tesla board can kick him off since he appears to be manipulating stock prices which is a breach of his fiduciary duty.

Yes, I'm sure the board will do exactly that!

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Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

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LOL

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Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

That's because the p tape is not in the same category as the laptop. The fact that you think the p tape is "liberal content" shows your inability to distinguish things properly. You only see things as favorable and not favorable to you.

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Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

Does Musk even identify with one party? Making the Twitter code more or less open source would allow users to see for themselves whether a posting is from a bot or not. Wouldn’t discussions be more democratic if the people have open info and decide for themselves rather than someone (or an AI) deciding what is good or bad. Some “good” actions have unintended consequences. A lot of censoring right now seems like it has the same effect as trying to keep a lid on a boiling pot.

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Anonymous wrote:

Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

Does Musk even identify with one party? Making the Twitter code more or less open source would allow users to see for themselves whether a posting is from a bot or not. Wouldn’t discussions be more democratic if the people have open info and decide for themselves rather than someone (or an AI) deciding what is good or bad. Some “good” actions have unintended consequences. A lot of censoring right now seems like it has the same effect as trying to keep a lid on a boiling pot.

I think the vast number of normals leaving the platform and the vast numbers of fascists joining it tells you all you need to know. And yes, since he’s a dishonest sack of crap who loves the far right, he’s a right winger.

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Anonymous wrote:

Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

Does Musk even identify with one party? Making the Twitter code more or less open source would allow users to see for themselves whether a posting is from a bot or not. Wouldn’t discussions be more democratic if the people have open info and decide for themselves rather than someone (or an AI) deciding what is good or bad. Some “good” actions have unintended consequences. A lot of censoring right now seems like it has the same effect as trying to keep a lid on a boiling pot.

I think the vast number of normals leaving the platform and the vast numbers of fascists joining it tells you all you need to know. And yes, since he’s a dishonest sack of crap who loves the far right, he’s a right winger.

Sad because if the idiots on one side leave and only the idiots on the other side stay, no one is actually fighting the good fight. Each side will bubble wrap themselves and make more of their own cocoons. Democracy ends in dark silence through censorship and book banning.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

Does Musk even identify with one party? Making the Twitter code more or less open source would allow users to see for themselves whether a posting is from a bot or not. Wouldn’t discussions be more democratic if the people have open info and decide for themselves rather than someone (or an AI) deciding what is good or bad. Some “good” actions have unintended consequences. A lot of censoring right now seems like it has the same effect as trying to keep a lid on a boiling pot.

I think the vast number of normals leaving the platform and the vast numbers of fascists joining it tells you all you need to know. And yes, since he’s a dishonest sack of crap who loves the far right, he’s a right winger.

Sad because if the idiots on one side leave and only the idiots on the other side stay, no one is actually fighting the good fight. Each side will bubble wrap themselves and make more of their own cocoons. Democracy ends in dark silence through censorship and book banning.

Both sides word salad.

Normal people seem to be leaving twitter in droves (already! Even though he wouldn’t take ownership for months if the deal goes through). No one wants to support a fascist billionaire snowflake. Twitter will largely be left to the fascists.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Is this guy stupid or trolling? Why did he not buy the #1 for much much less?

He clarified this in a subsequent Tweet:

Because Twitter was censoring conservative content due to rules it was not applying to liberal content (Hunter laptop vs. p tape for example), this led to apps like Parler and Truth Social, which are going to further radicalize people in isolated echo chambers and turn people even further to the right. For some reason Elon sees this obvious point but some of you are not that astute.

That's because the p tape is not in the same category as the laptop. The fact that you think the p tape is "liberal content" shows your inability to distinguish things properly. You only see things as favorable and not favorable to you.

You are right because the P tape was a fabrication by Democrats and the laptop actually existed. They are not in the same category. The fact that Twitter left the P tape alone and swung the ban hammer liberally for the laptop proves the PP's point.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything comes full circle

Did the purchase go through yet? Elon was going to use his Tesla stock to pay for the purchase but the bottom dropped out of Tesla stock yesterday, probably because of the anticipated huge stock dump. The Tesla board can kick him off since he appears to be manipulating stock prices which is a breach of his fiduciary duty.

Yes, I'm sure the board will do exactly that!

He agreed to the SEC to have a babysitter review his tweets about Tesla in lieu of a big fine. Tesla board complained he was causing too much instability with the stock price. Yesterday he personally lost $30 billion of stock value when Tesla crashed. Today he’s made about 12% of that back.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything comes full circle

Did the purchase go through yet? Elon was going to use his Tesla stock to pay for the purchase but the bottom dropped out of Tesla stock yesterday, probably because of the anticipated huge stock dump. The Tesla board can kick him off since he appears to be manipulating stock prices which is a breach of his fiduciary duty.

You guys are so desperate to find any hope to stop this from going through!

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Anonymous wrote:Also, both Apple and Google stores require app developers to moderate content. Elon will need to moderate content, lest Twitter become flooded with kiddie porn

Elon Musk has made it clear that any illegal postings will not be tolerated. Goes without saying that any CP should be removed and IP logs turned over to law enforcement. The majority of this country thinks that this takeover is a good thing.

This is a nice sentiment, but it's coming from a man who flagrantly violated public health regulations that were implemented by an elected government (and largely supported by the people of Alameda County). Musk has shown he doesn't believe in following democratically passed laws that he disagrees with.

Go back to government 101. None of the “public health regulations” were laws. Or were voted on. Ever. That was the problem. Your side argued that it was done in the name of “science” so it didn’t need to be democratically supported. These were fundamental disagreements, and one side has continued to win in the courts. Hint: the winners have not been the unelected bureaucrats you want Musk to blindly follow.

Seems you may need Government 102, because county health departments and local governments are absolutely empowered (by law) to issue public health regulations and orders. In fact, here's the governing statute in California:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?article=1.&chapter=2.&division=101.&lawCode=HSC&part=3.&title=

Also, in most counties the public health officer is an elected official.

FWIW, even Tesla understood the orders to carry the force of law (they just claimed they disagreed with the county sheriffs interpretation of a statewide order from the governor):
https://www.businessinsider.com/alameda-county-officials-tesla-violated-lockdown-rules-hope-comply-2020-5

Government is far more complicated than whatever you might have learned in fourth grade social studies. Most of us like living in a society with some modicum of rules and enforcing power. Most of us don't want to live in a world where we elect officials to make decisions and then have some rich cyber-bully decide he's above the law.

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Anonymous wrote:Early signs of where Twitter will go under Musk - non-political users like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry lose significant numbers of followers as ordinary people are deactivating the accounts, which right wing extremists like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bolsonaro see significant upticks from the RWNJs flocking to the site. Twitter will become what Truth Social tried and failed to be.

It will be interesting to see what this does to twitter’s ad revenue.

Taylor Swift's twitter follower #'s: lost ~10k followers out of ~90Million. That's roughly 1/100th of 1% of her total followers. Though she seems to have been losing followers in the previous weeks. Don't follow her so I have no idea why.
https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/taylorswift13

Katy Perrys: lost ~5k followers out of 110Million. That's less than 1/200th of 1% of her total followers.
https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/katyperry

Like so many things, it depends on what one's definition of "significant numbers of followers" is. It's possible that Katy Perry will de-activate her Twitter account that's she's had for 13+ years and leave over that loss but the data seems to suggest that these mega stars will be able to handle losing 5 or 10k followers. And the people that unfollowed will likely be back anyway. Let's be honest here...

Katy Perry lost 200,000 followers, not 5,000.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-says-mass-deactivations-musk-news-organic-rcna26182

She still has 110 million followers. In the grand scheme of things, that’s a blip on the radar.

Do you also think it’s nothing that Marjorie Taylor Greene picked up 95k followers?

As for Perry, Swift, etc., it is a dramatic swing for two days. The level of deactivations and new account creation was high enough that it got Twitters attention and they felt it was worth analyzing. So you can keep trying to minimize it, but it is still a sign that a lot of people are very uneasy about the idea of participating in a platform run by Musk and giving him access to their personal data.

A bunch of republicans joined due to the news of Elon taking over and wanting free speech. It makes sense to me. I think Tucker Carlson even came back.

Yes, because they think that Twitter will now let them engage in the kind of indecent, hateful behavior that wasn’t tolerated the past few years.

I mean, the awful, racist, misogynistic and violent tweets at Vijaya Gadde that started moments after Musk went after her yesterday tell us we need to know about what Twitter will be if Musk has his way.

Yah - No wonder Twitter staff are upset … already Twitter’s moral voice of reason is under siege by Musk and conservatives …
Elon Musk boosts criticism of Twitter executives, prompting online attacks. The targeting of employees by Musk’s massive Twitter megaphone is a major concern for workers

Elon Musk has tweeted criticism of top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, raising further questions about her future at the company

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-condemns-twitter-lawyer-vijaya-gadde-1701343


Here’s the article that Musk tweeted angrily in response to …
Twitter’s top lawyer reassures staff, cries during meeting about Musk takeover
Vijaya Gadde, a key executive involved in decisions to remove former President Donald Trump and ban political advertising, expressed uncertainty about the future of the platform.

Gadde, who has worked at Twitter since 2011, is the key executive charged with overseeing Twitter’s trust and safety, legal and public policy functions. She is seen internally as Twitter’s “moral authority” and the executive tasked with handling sensitive issues like harassment and dangerous speech.
Gadde played a leading role in negotiating the deal between Twitter and Musk, according to one person familiar with the dynamics.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/twitters-top-lawyer-reassures-staff-cries-during-meeting-about-musk-takeover-00027931


Musk keeps going after Twitter staff - no wonder they are afraid …
Twitter executive accuses Musk of MISOGYNY for criticizing firm's top lawyer- but Elon continues attacking Twitter and points out Trump's Truth Social is beating it


After Twitter buyout, firm’s India-born top lawyer attacked by conservatives
https://www.mid-day.com/technology/article/after-musks-twitter-buyout-firms-indiaborn-top-lawyer-attacked-by-conservative-trolls-23224705

I guess she should have done her job in a more even-handed manner. Clearly if ISIS is allowed on but Trump isn’t? Problem

QFT. Anybody who thinks it's bad that she's gone doesn't truly believe in Democracy. This is good for all parties and the left will come to see that. Right wing racists should not be allowed to target "black twitter". Transphobes should leave the LGBTQ+ folks alone and if they get out of line they should be banned. Most of the right just wants a fair platform.