You. If you don’t like Twitter, or truth social. Go make your own. Seem like a pretty simple solution imo
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Elon Musk Is Officially Purchasing Twitter for $44 Billion
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I'm following Bill Gate's lead. I have been shorting the stuffing out of TSLA. I suggest all of you do the same. This is beyond easy money. This is like finding it in your wallet. TWTR will fail, as he has already stated he plans to take it private. Bye Bye, from an investment standpoint. Make TSLA pay for it.
My comment that you quoted had not one iota of political discussion
Elon's point about Twitter being the digital town square never seems to be grasped by people who conflate free speech with the first amendment.
If you can't see beyond banning Trump or wanting to delete mis-info related to Covid, you will never understand where the tech world is headed or why mostly unregulated platforms are vitally important.
If you can't see beyond banning Trump or wanting to delete mis-info related to Covid, you will never understand where the tech world is headed or why mostly unregulated platforms are vitally important.
Don't forget about the kid he blocked who was tracking his jet
Jack Sweeney says Elon Musk blocked him, and he’s not mad about it
He’s also selling stickers, T-shirts and sweatshirts with photos of the billionaire smoking a joint.
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Or the Tesla employee who got fired for posting a review of this Tesla and the FSD software that he paid for
Tesla employee fired after posting self-driving crash video
John Bernal's YouTube channel featured FSD Beta footage that may have run afoul of Tesla's employee social media policy.
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That is also true. And I agree they can be hard to define. But I do hope that now with it being taken private it may allow for more concentration on the specifics of these issues because shareholders can be out of the picture! Though I could be wrong.
The government cannot deny one's right to free speech in the USA, but private entities can and in my opinion should curb speech if it is deemed obviously false and / or pornigraphic in nature. You can best believe that if I were working for a company and put out a bunch of crap and the company found out, I would be canned. If Twitter is going to open up again to all of the political nutcases, Twitter will go down.
Lets hope Trump’s account be activated by tomorrow and make all the *******s go nuts ?
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But what is "mostly unregulated"?
That is the issue -- it still needs moderation and that still always ends up with subjective definitions that require enforcement.
It's so difficult, if not impossible, in this mega polarized world where many can't even agree on basic facts about many things.
Who said lack of moderation? It will still be moderated, surely, but differently.
Totally agreed -- It will be fascinating to see what happens here.
I'm not optimistic
No one, but it doesn't take a genius to see the writing on the wall here.
I'm not abandoning the platform yet but given how Musk acts on Twitter and elsewhere, I don't have have hopes.
Everyone is projecting - either what they want or what they fear - on Musk. My guess is very little will change and Musk will get bored with running Twitter pretty quick.
LOL.... Fan Boy, much? This is one of the most ludicrous comments I have ever read on Macrumors.
I don't think "the government" has been much of a hindrance on what Elon can say. If I understand correctly, there are still regulations about what statements that someone on the board of a publicly traded corporation can say (misstatements that would affect stock prices and such), and for those, it doesn't matter whether you own the platform publishing your views or not - if the FTC or whoever was going to come down on his twitter postings, he would still be running afoul of the law if he was posting them to a blog he set up on some website of his own. Owning the platform lets him bypass the platform's rules, but not the government's laws.
Don't forget about the kid he blocked who was tracking his jet
Jack Sweeney says Elon Musk blocked him, and he’s not mad about it
He’s also selling stickers, T-shirts and sweatshirts with photos of the billionaire smoking a joint.
I am not sure how this applies to the conversation. Musk blocked someone from his own personal profile. That’s the equivalent of Musk (or you and me) turning off the tv. The “station” can still broadcast. Another thing is a full fledged ban from the platform, which is the equivalent of stopping the station from broadcasting.
Lol, out of these three Twitter is not the one I have a problem with.