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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 jfoster »

ashtonkem wrote: post #254
jfoster wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on the person, doesn't it? If I were at Twitter, I would be excited about this. I would be expecting the work to become more challenging, but also more important.

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.

From what I'd heard, he's the perfect boss; adverse to workplace politics, interested in truth & results above all else.

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

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Post by hackernewds »

JamesAdir wrote: post #9
jmkni wrote: post #5

I think Twitter's CEO summed it up well, and I agree: > He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term. Welcome Elon! https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1511320964813910017

Elon is his one of his new bosses, I would take anything the CEO says with a grain of salt.

Not to mention he doesn't have the political capacity / capital or the history as Jack at Twitter

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Post by zionic »

cguess wrote: post #448
zionic wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I’ll bite. Yes I am, but on the other hand none of the SEC’s decisions have impacted me negatively. I have never held XRP for example, so while I dislike them it’s entirely because I don’t believe they should exist in the first place, they haven’t cost me money.

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

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Post by tonguez »

noetic_techy wrote: post #557

It's either this or one of its competitors rises to take them on at some point and we get a bifurcated society where specific companies cater to specific politics. That may be unavoidable anyways. I think people outside the SV bubble (I grew up there, don't live there anymore) don't realize how hated and despised their censorship policies really are. Musk has his pulse on that, so I'm happy to see him step in and sha…

“It's either this or one of its competitors rises to take them on at some point and we get a bifurcated society where specific companies cater to specific politics. That may be unavoidable anyways.”

one can dream. as of now all corporations follow the same ideology of neoconservative imperialism because they are all owned by the same people (blackrock, etc)

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Post by Xenixo »

Reebz wrote: post #676
Xenixo wrote: post #539

Weird that Elon musk would do something like this I assumed he would optimize how he spends his time. He mentioned once that he sometimes sleeps/slept at the factory. I had a similar thought on Putin: as long as the war is ongoing he has less time to do other things. When Biden took over trump I also thought that bidens team might be able to do more change than the trump team because he fired so many and golfed often…

This is just a 2022 version of a billionaire buying a newspaper. Not shocking.

To do what?

A newspaper I get. Forming opinions is easy with a newspaper.

But with twitter? Manipulating Twitter trends? Who cares?

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Post by kirubakaran »

steelframe wrote: post #80

Is there a law akin to Godwin's or Sturgeon's about all social media trending toward some failure state? Several years ago I deleted all my FB content and then disabled my account. Looks like it's time to do that with my Twitter account now.

The second law of thermodynamics

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

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Post by samarama »

A Twitter with unlimited speech will become a racist and propaganda hellscape.

Imagine Trump will be brought back on Twitter, he’ll radicalize 40% of Americans into QAnon disciples and try to topple the United States government again. He’ll have thousands like him joining in in spreading mass amounts of fake news exactly like the Russian propaganda machine.

You’ll see extreme science denial, a boatload of new Covid myths, drinking bleach, Ivermectin, Covid is just the flu propaganda all over again, just 5 times worse.

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

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Post by grenoire »

fleddr wrote: post #678

I think people are really over-analyzing this move. I think it's motivated by prestige, not money, nor is free speech the heart of the matter. Twitter is a stagnant company. They have thousands of engineers that in the span of a decade don't seem to produce much at all, nothing visible or memorable anyway. Long-lasting Twitter problems (culture, spam, algorithm issues) never seem addressed. User growth is stagnating…

thank you Papa Musk for the edit button <3

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Post by zdragnar »

sbarre wrote: post #135
zdragnar wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have never had a public town square larger than a literal town square, excepting maybe ham radio. Every other space has in some way been moderated or fashioned to purpose. Even public TV, news and radio are groomed to certain standards.

And yet we've had demonstrations and protests that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions, into the streets around the world to demand change or rally around causes. Where does that happen online, with the guarantees afforded by only the rule of law?

Various governments have ways to petition online. Change.org or whatever is reasonably open to things covered by the first amendment, though of course it is privately controlled without real guarantees.

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Post by deanCommie »

fleddr wrote: post #678

I think people are really over-analyzing this move. I think it's motivated by prestige, not money, nor is free speech the heart of the matter. Twitter is a stagnant company. They have thousands of engineers that in the span of a decade don't seem to produce much at all, nothing visible or memorable anyway. Long-lasting Twitter problems (culture, spam, algorithm issues) never seem addressed. User growth is stagnating…

Counterpoint: Twitter is the only social network I use where I get an unfiltered balance of ideas big and small - CEOs and random Joes. It's where memes are born and proliferate everywhere else (other than TikTok).

Twitter WORKS. If it's profitable, it doesn't need more growth. Facebook got ruined because it thought everyone's parents and grandparents should be on it, and now that's the only people on it.

My parents and grandparents are scared of Twitter, and that's how I like it.

It also doesn't try to charge me for access to my own followers like Facebook does.

Twitter may have problems but I like the balance they've struck.

An edit button by the way would RUIN it because people who have gone viral with a bad take would simply edit it away.

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