I’d call him a serial incel.
Of course all that money buys him entry but only for so long.
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Of course all that money buys him entry but only for so long.
Who knows what Musk was thinking or what the actual agreement he signed as it's confidential.
What we do know was that he signed the purchase agreement without doing any due diligence of reviewing any documents and that he could've backed out of the deal by paying a $1B termination fee, which could've saved him $43B. But his Ego wouldn't let him so he just bought company and we all are seeing what he's doing with it currently, not a pretty sight.
The worse thing is his arrogance in his tweets bullying and misleading people, considering his slash and burn approach in the first weeks of his arrival and how many users deactivated their accounts and advertisers left.
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The agreement was up for public viewing since it's filed with the SEC.
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Wow- what a double standard we have here
1. Apple didn’t do any of those analysis- it was actually brought to the government by none profit.
Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties, despite the company's promises to hold itself to the 'highest standards,' report says
Ex-employees told The Information that Apple kept working with suppliers, despite repeated labor law violations, when cutting ties was more costly.
www.businessinsider.com
Apple and Foxconn confirmed they broke a Chinese labor law by employing too many temporary workers at the world's biggest iPhone factory
Investigators from China Labor Watch went undercover for as long as four years to uncover working conditions in Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory.
www.businessinsider.com
Foxconn Admits that it Employed 14-Year-Olds at a Plant in China
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Co. has confirmed that it employed children as young as 14 at a plant in China, in a fresh blow to the company that has been attacked over its...
So allow me to ask since 2012- how many cases needs to happen for Tim to take action?
Looks like nothing really has changed since 2012
Care to look into labor protest? From 2013 to just now.
Has anything changed?
Yes you are so up and arm against Elon but refuse to put Tim Cook under same microscope.
Seems like bias to me.
Suyin was only banned after 3 years. Hooray.
As of today Zhengzhou still employ thousands of 16 years old student under so called internship who works up to 11 hours per shift.
Yes that is progress. It okay to turn a blind eye because it doesn’t go against your political view.
People are actually physically being abused here. And it’s of no consequence to you.
Pathetic.
You know, you’re right. This is actually about Musk thinking he can just whine and moan Apple into doing that.
Looks like Zuckerberg also complained.
www.bloomberg.com
Meta Slams Apple for ‘Undercutting Others’ With Ad Policy Change
Meta Platforms Inc. criticized Apple Inc. for changing its App Store terms to take a portion of social-media advertising revenue, saying the iPhone maker was “undercutting others in the digital economy.”
www.bloomberg.com
Nice story telling, but all untrue.
We know what the terms of purchase are - they were filed with the SEC because its a purchase offer for a publix US-listed company.
He could not have backed out for a mere $1b, because it required proving material adverse effects, or other conditions.
When he started buying twitter equity, the overall peer market (as represented by nasdaq 100 index) was at its peak. When his purchase was made public, the market had slid double-digit percentage. It continued to slide into summer.
The valuation of Twitter, if pegged to NDX, had eroded significantly more than $1b. If the contract and math was that simple, that would have been the route to go.
Unless government bans it, hate will always be possible on the internet. I don’t see many arguing for that so that would seem to be a moot point.
The $1 billion termination fee was in case the US government for example decided to stop the purchase. It wasn’t a fee Musk could pay to terminate the transaction just because he got cold feet.
I answered a specific question about personal preference. Nothing more.
However, one can also discuss and have opinion on how other companies and individuals act, regardless of government action. The idea that something shouldn’t be discussed (or that such discussion is moot) simply because there is or there isn’t government action is ludicrous. If someone burns a book, which isn’t illegal, I will say that whoever does it is an imbecile and that they shouldn’t do it.
Wrong again. The “speech” is a cover, (for gullible people taking things at face value)
The real ire is economics. 30% of subscription fee is a chunk of change. Going off the app store entirely means even loss of install base and even bigger potential chunk of change.
Its a 1-sided public spat, motivated by money.
Wow- what a double standard we have here
1. Apple didn’t do any of those analysis- it was actually brought to the government by none profit.
Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties, despite the company's promises to hold itself to the 'highest standards,' report says
Ex-employees told The Information that Apple kept working with suppliers, despite repeated labor law violations, when cutting ties was more costly.
Apple and Foxconn confirmed they broke a Chinese labor law by employing too many temporary workers at the world's biggest iPhone factory
Investigators from China Labor Watch went undercover for as long as four years to uncover working conditions in Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory.
Foxconn Admits that it Employed 14-Year-Olds at a Plant in China
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Co. has confirmed that it employed children as young as 14 at a plant in China, in a fresh blow to the company that has been attacked over its...www.industryweek.com
So allow me to ask since 2012- how many cases needs to happen for Tim to take action?
Looks like nothing really has changed since 2012
Care to look into labor protest? From 2013 to just now.
Has anything changed?
Yes you are so up and arm against Elon but refuse to put Tim Cook under same microscope.
Seems like bias to me.
Suyin was only banned after 3 years. Hooray.
As of today Zhengzhou still employ thousands of 16 years old student under so called internship who works up to 11 hours per shift.
Yes that is progress. It okay to turn a blind eye because it doesn’t go against your political view.
People are actually physically being abused here. And it’s of no consequence to you.
Pathetic.
I think the original point that was being made was more about Musk's state of mind at the moment and whether it's indicative of poor mental health, but I'm glad you managed to change it into a line of attack and a change of topic all in the space of two posts, that efficiency is admirable and it's certainly accomplished its job of making the person you disagree with go on the defense which has successfully made him look weak and made you look virtuous.
It is all rather off-topic, though, so perhaps you'd like to respond to the user's other point which you previously ignored in favor of this distraction?
It's an interesting point, so I look forward to your response @Krispykrme!
This just goes to show that so much of the reaction to Elon taking over Twitter is based in political malice, and on nothing else. So many people hoping a platform fails because they don’t like the CEO…I just find it baffling.
As many others have pointed out..none of these folks were bothered that terrorist organizations were allowed to be on Twitter. But when American political personalities they disliked were allowed back on…that was a step too far!
These folks want to protect against disinformation? How about the people who were banned that said the evidence showed the COVID vaccine DIDN'T prevent infection? Well, that is true. Those that said there were no legitimate adverse reactions to the vaccine? Well, the authorities, and the Pharma companies, are now admitting that yes it’s real.
The problem is that “disinformation” these days means “things my opponents say and I choose not to believe”. THATS the problem with so many of these folks saying they just don’t want to allow “disinformation”. These people completely lack self-awareness. THAT is what’s dangerous. And THATS why they don’t want to loosen speech restrictions on Twitter.
Sure and I’m free to point out that your worry about the possible future existence of a hate-free internet is being worried about something that won’t come to pass anyway.
That would be so awesome if he brought back Blackberry and made it a true privacy device.
Or webOS (Palm) would be pretty sweet. Or the Linux OS that I can’t remember the name of it right now.
So Apple is against free speech that they don't like. I don't care much for Elon but if he is opening Twitter to all despite their views, he has my support.
Freedom of speech is the hallmark of this country. Not allowing it is going against it. It's shameful people want to cancel folks they dislike.
Freedom of speech is the hallmark of this country. Not allowing it is going against it. It's shameful people want to cancel folks they dislike.
Haha. Elon is a great man. Such a good character, intelligent, articulate, and stands up for what’s right.
Yeah, no, not accurate at all. All I see is Florida telling you that you can't say "gay" and Disney can't have rainbows, and libraries have to have the local fundamentalist Evangelical Mullahs approve any books they want to have, they fire public officials who tell the truth about pandemics, the list goes on and on and on. Florida is not in any way "Left."
And tlhen there's the rest of the country. There are some on the extreme left who would tend to be that way too, but in the main, no, you are not correct.
That’s about how 90% of folks operate these days: ideology first, ideas last.
Apple does not *have* to do anything. They should do what they want.
But Apple likes money. People downloading Twitter and paying for subs in the app makes them money.
But explicitly “allowing” an app that is widely painted with an unpopular association is reputational risk, which loses some potential money (in a wooly indeterminate way).
Going after Apple is not easy, or smart. Epic Games tried it and didn’t go so well.
Yeah what’s with all these people against free speech??
With a nod to '1984,' a federal judge blocks Florida's anti-'woke' law in colleges
Gov. Ron DeSantis was a champion of the bill designed to limit instruction about racism and privilege in the workplace and public universities. A federal judge called it "positively dystopian."
www.npr.org
You're welcome to interpreting the sides of politics how you want to, but how is it right that one side gets censored by the other?
I could list out the counter arguments to your statements about how the right is worse than the left, but I don't think it's really about which side is better/worse. It's about one side wanting control over what everyone can think and say. Even if it's for a good cause, it's wrong.
Ultimately, the way you think the right is dangerous, there are a whole bunch of people who think the left is just as dangerous. It's a game with no winners.
Economics as a motivator for virtually everyone and everything in the world isnt exactly a radical idea you’d have construct an elaborate scheme to explain for.
Or is that really news to you?
A lot of people hated him before he said a word about his politics. He’s a billionaire, people hate him because of that. It’s fun to see billionaires fail. Pretty simple stuff.