Musk faces a huge challenge in finding a free market solution that will cover Twitter’s enormous debt payments. Perhaps the first best step is to move Twitter out of California.
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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Twitter Takeover, Fires Top Executives, and Makes Himself CEO
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Burn and censor in the name of racism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia. It’s really sad where we’re at right now. Culturally bankrupt at the moment. And social media mainstream media has played a major role by creating echo chambers and gas lightning them.
The beginning of the end of Twitter. It was a hot mess when I was banned, and it's only gotten worse since then. I quit all social media (although this is a form of it) and do not miss the sniping and flame wars.
Move it to Mars! The servers won't be covered by any (terrestrial) laws at that point. Latency might be an issue. It would slow down the flame wars for sure...
I wonder if Elon Musk could buy a state. West Virginia or North Dakota might not be very expensive.
I'm guessing that if Twitter allows racist, threatening and insulting language to become the norm on the site, people of good character (and advertisers) will leave the site in droves, leaving it just another parlor and truth. I'm sure Musk knows this, so all these people who want to "let it all hang out" will be hugely disappointed.
And over to Saudi Arabia, who is now the most significant non-Musk owner.
And we know where the Saudis stand on freedom of speech. Just ask Jamal Khasshogi, the Saudi journalist, who criticized King Salman entirely without repercussions, if you leave out the part where they cut his fingers off and then murdered him, right inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.
Yep, the net is littered with remains of things like Parler, Truth, Gab, VKontakt.
I agree with the first part of your post, but this is overstating things just a bit. Obviously "freedom" shouldn't include things such as murder, rape, theft, trespassing, slander, libel, etc. Those are definitely "asterisks" to freedom. But if you simply mean the "word police" and cancel-culture type restrictions on freedom, then I agree.
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I fail to see how he did ANYTHING other than pay 44B to turn Twitter into 4chan.
This has been a great thread to see which of you I need to ignore.
Life expectancy is substantially worse in Republican controlled states and the gap is growing. The Fentanyl disaster started with weak regulation from federal government enabling a major pharmaceutical company, Purdue, to abuse the system with opioid pain killers and get people hooked, and then with politicians of both parties in the states and federal government failing to take a leaf out of Margaret Thatcher's playbook and weaning people off using methadone. As for the border, the Biden administration is stopping far more people at it than Trump ever did. As for the "world" issues, Climate change? Better do something now if you don't want massive sea level rise burying our coasts or ever more unpredictable weather wrecking our Farm Belt. Green energy? Independence from foreign oil and monopolistic utilities with geothermal and solar generation that I control myself or along with my condo association, yes. Sign me up. Other countries' citizens being happy? Sometimes it helps to have allies, I'll just say that.
Rhode Island? I always wondered why Connecticut didn't just buy it and call it a day. Beat Massachusetts to the trigger on absorbing that little thing. He could buy it and call it 'BiffTown'!! Buying Vegas would have no shock value. Buy Rohde Island and turn it to 'The Vegas of the East'. *shrug*
We die earlier because after watching what’s going on in Democratically controlled states we want to.
That explains why he keeps producing kids with replaceable women one after another.
Those states are funding ******** red states and maybe one day they’ll just say they’ve had enough.
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I appreciate your support. I was told my check will be in my account in 2-3 weeks…so I appreciate Mr. Musk’s work also.
There's also a question of what is "kind and considerate." Sometimes the truth hurts. Is allowing falsehood just to protect the feelings of people really "kind?" How do we define kind? We need an objective standard for what kind is and appeal to majority and appeal to emotions are both fallacies and don't give you a grounding for justified ethical claims. But the very thing that gives you a grounding for ethics and morals is not being broadcasted due to a desire to protect the false idea of what "freedom" is. What people call freedom is really slavery to the passions but people want this, and that's why they try to prevent the truth from spreading. They call good evil and evil good.
Just another variation of the "greens". Whatever "fairly legitimate" racket you can come up with that will put you in charge and helps you to control and dominate complex social systems.