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Elon Musk Offers to Buy All of Twitter

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This is a great thread on this subject:

Friends, Musk/Twitter headlines are all variants of ‘what will Elon do?’ It’s a signal of how lost we are. We obsess over one man and his whims because we don’t yet have the democratic rule of law needed to govern our information spaces. Without law power is dangerous.?[1/8]

The result: people, society, & democracy are at the mercy of the individuals who exercise ownership and/or executive control over information. We beg Mr. Zuckerberg to stop the social wreckage, honor our privacy, protect us from disinformation, but he refuses.@mariaressa [2/8]

We've learned FB is big business in which corrupt information is positively correlated with revenue. FB's profit-maximizing imperative ignores us. Privacy is destroyed. Corrupt information triumphs. Society fractures. Profit wins. Only law can change this. @carolecadwalla [3/8]

Mr. Musk wants to join the gods who rule the information space and control answers to the essential questions of knowledge, authority, and power in our time: Who knows? Who decides who knows? Who decides who decides? But we never elected them to govern. We need laws not men.[4/8]

Democracy will only advance with laws & institutions designed to guarantee our knowledge rights and the integrity of information in the digital century. Absent law, we're forced to worry,‘What will Elon do?' The emperors have all the clothes, while we run naked. @Moonalice [5/8]

Just as Mr. Zuckerberg leans on “free speech” to justify corrupt information flows that advance data extraction, Mr. Musk takes center stage with the same rhetoric. It’s a shameless distortion of the First Amendment and Bill of Rights. [6/8]
As Constitutional scholar @tribelaw tirelessly repeats, the Bill of Rights pertains only to government action, not to private companies. [7/8]

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Abdicating our information spaces to private control concentrates unaccountable power in the regime of #SurveillanceCapitalism. Our fate should not depend on the whims of individuals. What they decide today may be undone tomorrow. No democracy can survive these conditions.[8/8]



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https://twitter.com/x/status/1514731530911948802
 
hortod1 said:
“I want to buy Twitter ’cuz Justin Bieber doesn’t post any more”

Seems completely logical
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And the strawman of the year award goes to...

H3LL5P4WN said:
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The last thing Twitter, and the free world, needs is a deplorable manchild in charge of the narrative. He should go back to 4chan with the rest of his cult.
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Right. Cult leader who manufactures the world's most popular electric vehicles and creating the first private space exploration company. He's only going to do more. Get used to it.

jeffpeng said:
Millions of cars that yet have to deliver on features promised years ago. A vacuum tube train that isn't a train and not in a vaccum. A truly boring company making tunnels nobody needed for close the same cost as everyone else.

Musk is constantly claiming to "revolutionize" the world, and people buy it, while all he does is make very smart sales pitches while maintaining the veneer of being some kind of genius. Dude is smart, and dude knows how to use his persona, you can't take that from him, but that doesn't change the fact that SpaceX is probably his only endeavor that actually "did" something, and how that will pan out is yet to be seen.
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You realize that Twitter hasn't "panned out" either, right? That's his entire pitch for wanting to purchase it. So far it's been nothing more than a cancer.

chaospet said:
Well, this could be the thing that finally gets me to delete twitter!
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So the sewage factory echo chamber wasn't enough to make you want to delete it? Lol.

rtomyj said:
More insufferable than Musky Boi is the fan boys who worship the cult of Muskiness
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What about those who worship the cult of Soy?
 
Rogifan said:
What is his point for buying it other than to be an expensive troll triggering people (I saw someone say if Musk buys Twitter it will be the end of Democracy as we know it)?
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Have you heard of any Twitter proponents advocating for more free speech? Of course not. The people who are most scared of Elon buying Twitter are the ideologues who can’t defend their worldviews, and thus, would rather shut down free discourse (ie, democracy).

Besides, if people aren’t being triggered and only live in their “safe spaces” how will they ever improve? How will society? Debate is the greatest tool ever invented for learning and ironically, universities are teaching kids that being politically correct and shouting down people they disagree with is the best response.

Hence, much of the ”debate” against Elon buying Twitter are ad hominem attacks, such as “expensive troll triggering people”… I mean, do you really believe that one of the great geniuses of our time would spend $40 billion dollars to troll people?? Or is it more likely that he truly believes Twitter’s censorship poses a threat to Democracies around the world and he wants to protect free speech… even if that means triggering the weak minded?
 
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Karma*Police said:
Have you heard of any Twitter proponents advocating for more free speech? Of course not. The people who are most scared of Elon buying Twitter are the ideologues who can’t defend their worldviews, and thus, would rather shut down free discourse (ie, democracy).

Besides, if people aren’t being triggered and only live in their “safe spaces” how will they ever improve? How will society? Debate is the greatest tool ever invented for learning and ironically, universities are teaching kids that being politically correct and shouting down people they disagree with is the best response.

Hence, much of the ”debate” against Elon buying Twitter are ad hominem attacks, such as “expensive troll triggering people”… I mean, do you really believe that one of the great geniuses of our time would spend $40 billion dollars to troll people?? Or is it more likely that he truly believes Twitter’s censorship poses a threat to Democracies around the world and he wants to protect free speech… even if that means triggering the weak minded?
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Genius? He put a rechargeable battery in a car. That’s it. Ford did it before him, but didn’t see a market for them at the time.
 
sracer said:
Some claim him to be a Steve Jobs-type, I see him more along the lines of P. T. Barnum. View attachment 1991519
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100% He has duped quite a few folks into buy a Tesla for a lot of money. Here in Finland the heating system in many Teslas stopped working completely this winter and the cars had to be transported to the Tesla service center and only two exist in the country. Owners who tried to phone for help were on hold for many hours. The Tesla spokeswoman in Finland, when contacted by the press for comment replied, "Based on individual customer experiences, it is not yet possible to draw conclusions about Tesla's services in Finland more generally".

Ha...she has been studying the Apple customer service playbook.
 
Expos of 1969 said:
100% He has duped quite a few folks into buy a Tesla for a lot of money. Here in Finland the heating system in many Teslas stopped working completely this winter and the cars had to be transported to the Tesla service center and only two exist in the country. Owners who tried to phone for help were on hold for many hours. The Tesla spokeswoman in Finland, when contacted by the press for comment replied, "Based on individual customer experiences, it is not yet possible to draw conclusions about Tesla's services in Finland more generally".

Ha...she has been studying the Apple customer service playbook.
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I thought Northern European countries had a lot of Teslas because of your high gas prices. Interesting.
 
HalfFullmoon said:
I thought Northern European countries had a lot of Teslas because of your high gas prices. Interesting.
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You are probably partially correct. Add in the Nordic "be good to the environment" culture and a number of people with the funds to pay the cost of these vehicles here, and a number of people who must be seen in this current trendy status symbol and you have a market.

I moved here 5 years ago from North America and chose to not have a car. I walk, take the metro and bus and if I want to go to another city the train is reliable and not expensive. We have many neighbours who are younger than us and while we walk 20 minutes to the shopping centre and carry our purchases home, they drive. Pure laziness.
 
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planteater said:
He wants to open source the code that performs the moderation, along with transparency in showing what was done so that the community has visibility to it. All legal speech allowed. Hard to disagree with his goal.
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He wants to pump up Tesla stock where almost all his networth comes from. That’s what he is trying to do with all these ridicule hypes - whether it is corona related, crypto related, and now Twitter related.

Elon wants to turn Twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter, then change Twitter name to Titter because he is obviously a very serious investor. But then again, people defending him might benefit from his hype financially. At least, that’s what they are betting on.
 
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HalfFullmoon said:
He wants to pump up Tesla stock where almost all his networth comes from. That’s what he is trying to do with all these ridicule hypes - whether it is corona related, crypto related, and now Twitter related.

Elon wants to turn Twitter headquarters into a homeless shelter, then change Twitter name to Titter because he is obviously a very serious investor. But then again, people defending him might benefit from his hype financially. At least, that’s what they are betting on.
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Wild speculation, other than perhaps repurposing HQ. For sure it’s moving to Texas, that would likely be one of his first moves - get away from the single-voice echo chamber and over burdensome regulations/taxation.
 
The world would be a better place with out any of the social media platforms. Before any of these were in existence, there was way less hate and bitterness.
 
Expos of 1969 said:
You are probably partially correct. Add in the Nordic "be good to the environment" culture and a number of people with the funds to pay the cost of these vehicles here, and a number of people who must be seen in this current trendy status symbol and you have a market.

I moved here 5 years ago from North America and chose to not have a car. I walk, take the metro and bus and if I want to go to another city the train is reliable and not expensive. We have many neighbours who are younger than us and while we walk 20 minutes to the shopping centre and carry our purchases home, they drive. Pure laziness.
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Perhaps they choose more interesting and mentally stimulating exercise than walking to the shops? I play lots of sport, I lift weights, and take the dog for long walks at a local nature reserve, but I do however drive to the shops that are about a 12 minute walk away to get my groceries- it's a miserable walk across roads and all on tarmac. Pffff.
 
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ric22 said:
Perhaps they choose more interesting and mentally stimulating exercise than walking to the shops? I play lots of sport, I lift weights, and take the dog for long walks at a local nature reserve, but I do however drive to the shops that are about a 12 minute walk away to get my groceries- it's a miserable walk across roads and all on tarmac. Pffff.
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You are making little sense. You have no idea what I do in my day. You may wish to move if you can't deal with the tarmac and certain roads.
 
planteater said:
Wild speculation, other than perhaps repurposing HQ. For sure it’s moving to Texas, that would likely be one of his first moves - get away from the single-voice echo chamber and over burdensome regulations/taxation.
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Speculation or not, let the market decide. Watch TSLA.
 
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