Fascinating to me the level of vitriol that spews from people on this guy. He's just a guy, you know?
He's not just "a guy"
Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
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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. He believes in his free speech. Maybe. Definitely not when it comes to people who work for him or people that criticize him.
If you believe every free speech proponent secretly means speech they like, you may be projecting. To be fair, I may also be projecting.
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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.
Elon Musk definitely does not believe in free speech that criticizes Elon Musk.
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I’m worried about tangible changes. As their largest shareholder with a seat on the board (not to mention lots of fans/popular with some) I don’t want him to be able to drive product decisions. I know what I would like to change (better 3rd part app support, better anti-harassment tools). I don’t see why he would push for either one. I don’t know what he WOULD push for, but I worry I won’t like it. He called for the…
Well Twitter never really hooked me, so I’m mostly just a curious onlooker, but to me it seems that Twitter is pretty stagnant. Do you think there’s a possibility that this change has a positive outcome?
No. I’ll admit I’m pessimistic on such things. Sure Twitter could improve, but I don’t see how/why that would be led by Musk. I don’t see what he brings to the table other than himself as a person. It’s not like he was an expert in a similar field/company like FB, IG, TikTok, etc.
Edit: so it seems Elon is already promising changes, but Twitter says he has no say in content policy. So the nonsense may already be starting. Source: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1511387364563767298
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Elon is his one of his new bosses, I would take anything the CEO says with a grain of salt.
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.
He has 9%, not 90%.
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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
Tell that to the people who released valid short research on Tesla.
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HN has a bias against Elon Musk. That’s pretty much what you need to know.
Or for Elon Musk, depends who you ask. HN is't a person's initials.
Puh-lease. Bias means tendency to lean a certain way, you can’t have bias in 2 opposite directions.
The pro Elon crowd here is a minority. Something I’ll never understand, being that this is an entrepreneurial forum and Elon is the worlds best entrepreneur. Jealousy perhaps?
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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…
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Probably also the abuse of his workers. Some people really can't stand that.
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A decent chunk of people in the previous thread were saying he’s doing it to kill the bot that tracks his plane’s movements. In general, he seems to be an active enough user that there’s concerns he will use his new power as a way to shield himself from the consequences of his activity.
>A decent chunk of people in the previous thread were saying he’s doing it to kill the bot that tracks his plane’s movements Those people are idiots though. The kid said he would turn off the bot for $50k. You think Elon bought 9% of Twitter to avoid paying $50k?
I don't think it's about that, but I am absolutely sure that Musk would sooner pay 100x the cost in order to send a "fuck you" to someone that rankled him rather than take the ego hit and pay the 50k even if it's a pittance to him.