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Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

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Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

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Post by [deleted] »

memish wrote: post #429
ashtonkem wrote: post #254

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Praise for Elon tends to diminish the closer you get to him. He’s kind of notorious for being a bad boss; impulsive, poor temperament, and petty. Even if you like his achievements, chances are you would very much not enjoy having him as a boss.

Working for someone who transforms industries? Many do enjoy that very much, clearly. Amazing engineers, who can work anywhere they want, choose to work at SpaceX and Tesla. And we all benefit from the electrification of the grid and advances in space.

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Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

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Post by sho_hn »

keithwhor wrote: post #344
hintymad wrote: post #325

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Elon is just one of the board directors. I was wondering why people believe that he will have such sweeping power to change Twitter.

Depends on how much the rest of the board really feels like arguing with Elon. Keep in mind these people have jobs outside of Twitter. https://investor.twitterinc.com/corporate-governance/board-o...

One would assume, so does Musk.

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Post by pavlov »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #392
pavlov wrote: post #145

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I've been both a shareholder (since 2013) and customer of Tesla, and probably won't buy one of their products again. I feel deceived about spending over $5k on that "full self-driving" package that three years later still does nothing of the sort. The fact that I made a little money on Elon's coattails doesn't make it OK for him to constantly lie to customers.

I bought a Tesla in 2019 and chose not to buy FSD because I knew it wasn't implemented yet and won't be for several years. If you thought you were going to get FSD any time soon, you weren't paying attention.

Paying attention to what? The lackluster sensor hardware on the Model 3? I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to that at the time.

That's not some kind of consumer protection escape hatch, though:

"Yeah, we sold them software that will never exist, but because it's actually impossible to implement on our hardware, it's their fault for buying it."

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

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Post by stale2002 »

hackyhacky wrote: post #413
twofornone wrote: post #399

I think generally the political right in the US is effectively underserved by social media, because all of the giants seem to lean pretty openly left. If Musk can make the platform more neutral this could be a massive business opportunity, if not to grow then to at least ensure Twitter's market dominance by venting some of the pressure for a competitor. Never would have bothered before but I'm long TWTR now, worth a…

Has it occurred to you that social media tilts left because lefty people are more likely to use the internet? Internet and social media use use track closely with education level, which correlate to position on the political spectrum. If that's true, then an attempt to make social media more "neutral" would in fact be giving rightists an unfair advantage.

There are lots and lots of lefty places on the internet.

I am sure that people on the left will do just fine, if there happens to be 1 major neutral platform that doesn't do as strict moderation.

Re: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

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Post by E4YomzYIN5YEBKe »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #365
scop wrote: post #200

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By "shield himself from the consequences of his activity" I think Elon literally meant "I don't want to get shot by some crazy person following my movements". No perfect solution, but I can get his motivation.

ADS data is public. Just because a Twitter bot puts it in a nice easy to digest format doesn't mean the data isn't out there, and there's nothing Elon or really anyone can do about it. It is trivial to track a plane if you have its tail number and Elon only flies on a small number of jets. And, no, by "shield himself from the consequences of his activities", I mean things like calling someone a pedophile on Twitter.…

Voter registrations make people's home addresses public information (in many states) but posting that on Twitter violates their doxxing rules.

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Post by Lamad123 »

beeboop wrote: post #152
asd88 wrote: post #141

Good 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?

He calls himself of founder of some things he never founded!

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Post by cguess »

zionic wrote: post #261
01100011 wrote: post #169

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The SEC has been asleep for years now. Every week we see market whales pulling gamma squeezes and pumping tech stocks higher and higher. The market is a joke at this point.

Asleep? SEC has been screwing small investors for as long as it’s been around. Screw the SEC, just another in a long list of government agencies that shouldn’t exist.

You're big into crypto, aren't you?

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Post by mostertoaster »

dehrmann wrote: post #171
mostertoaster wrote: post #161

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I dont know about electric cars, but what Elon did with space x is simply incredible. Commercial space flights were becoming rarer and rarer out of the US, and now it is the most common. The price of space flight while still high, was reduced by a huge percentage. I’m sure he told many lies to get there. But economics and physics don’t really lie. I like him for the reasons I like Kanye, Bernie Sanders, and Trump (th…

> I dont know about electric cars There was that time Tesla bought Musk's cousin's failing rooftop solar company.

Yeah seems suspect huh?
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