I have obviously missed something but what is the main objection to Musk being part of Twitter's board?
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Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
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#152Good for TWTR but not great for its employees given how Elon runs his companies.
How does Elon run his companies any differently than the vast majority of tech companies out there?
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> an Elon-run Twitter would be a lot more profitable. I'm not so sure about that. He doesn't have a lot of experience with running ad sales. His big breaks have been PayPal (kind of), Tesla and SpaceX. None of which were social, none of which were "free".
My paypal account is free. It is way more useful than my twitter account which I don't even know my handle.
Twitter is simultaneously useless and also the life-blood of western politics. The people in power care more about what Twitter thinks than what voters think.
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I give his tenure as CEO 6 months at most before he's forced out by the board, or resigns for ideological differences. The changing wind that Elon is going to usher in is going to be fundamental and sweeping, and I wouldn't be surprised to see an exodus of employees follow.
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Ah, the evergreen prediction of Twitter’s impending demise.
The best part is that one say it will be true, and all of the folks who’ve been saying this for decades will get proven right.
It’s the safest prediction in the world, to say something will end.
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I sympathize but very rich people owning the media never ends well
Who owns the media and big tech now??? It's not poor people! At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech. Which is good for us poors. Twitter and the national discourse will be objectively better for working class voices as a result. Less so for the gatekeepers and media elite commentariat.
> At least Elon Musk is a very rich person who believes in free speech.
Yes thats exactly why he was willing to shell out 50,000$ to a kid to remove his flight tracking bot.
Stop licking his boot.
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#156I have obviously missed something but what is the main objection to Musk being part of Twitter's board?
Its a modern incarnation of a billionaire buying a newspaper. Has that ever worked out well? Has it ever been altruistic?
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> He filed forms that he was going to be a passive investor This was almost certainly done by a lawyer working on his behalf. This strikes me as a technicality of paperwork that is being seized upon by the media as a way to portray Musk in the worst possible light. > I wouldn't want somebody like him on my board In this hypothetical, what is your role (i.e. fellow shareholder, CEO, employee)? I ask because shareholde…
> This was almost certainly done by a lawyer working on his behalf. Are you arguing that when he signs his name and certifies that the (short) form is "true, complete and correct" that he is not responsible because the form was prepared by an attorney of his? > being seized upon by the media How did "the media" seize on this? When I last checked, there were zero articles. And even if they had, why wouldn't discussion…
Does it matter? Was there any consequence of filling out a form then doing something different?
I have heard it several times already today, but so what a form was filled out wrong, is there any consequence to that that anybody would care about? (I doubt anybody complaining about it actually knows anything about how important it is, it’s just being latched on to because it’s a way to match events with preexisting opinions)
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NSA backdoored proprietary iOS vs Open source GrahpeneOS....
Yes, because the NSA definitely does not have an entire library of top secret zero days for 90% of the software packages included in your Open Source OS. And your hardware definitely doesn't have any backdoors. Maintaining privacy against a state level actor is essentially a nerd fan fiction daydream. If the US government is after you, you're fucked no matter what.
As I always say... if your threat model contains the NSA, GRU, CCP or any other sophisticated state actor you're better off not using any technology because the moment you do you've lost.
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#159Does HN crowd REALLY believe he is going to remove censorship and preserve the voice of the underclass ? Thats the most naive thing to believe.
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Misleading investors is one of Elon’s main jobs. And he’ll continue doing so, as we doesn’t face any consequences for it (expect for becoming ultra rich).
Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates"). But what Tesla has done is insane. It's happened so quickly, and that's leaving aside the rockets. The hard evidence that we can build new things, that we can progress and build a future that's better than the present is so important. If it takes a flawed man to show us that, I'll take it. If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure ou…
I may be seen as a villain to Ayn Rand disciples, mainly because I may point out I have seen people do amazing things without becoming billionaires at consumers expense.