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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by cainxinth »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

>I wish him the best and hope he truly makes twitter somewhere that you visit that isn't just rage bait again.

You think "Lord Edge" is going to make Twitter less of a cesspool? Everything he's said and done indicates he wants the limits Twitter currently has on speech to be removed.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by jlmorton »

V__ wrote: post #89

Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one? If one believes Twitter has a free speech problem: Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department, lashes out against any criticism against him, canceled a preorder because he didn't like a journalists' article etc. Musk is great at self-promotion and this often helps his companies in some sense, but what else does h…

> Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department

Kind of a weird example. Musk shutdown Tesla's PR department because Musk believes Tesla can get better organic press. It's unrelated, but if anything, getting rid of a dissembling PR department can only serve to promote better discussion, not suppress it.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by codaphiliac »

V__ wrote: post #89

Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one? If one believes Twitter has a free speech problem: Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department, lashes out against any criticism against him, canceled a preorder because he didn't like a journalists' article etc. Musk is great at self-promotion and this often helps his companies in some sense, but what else does h…

It might be just a money move: make the company private, make it more efficient, monetize better. Then re-introduce in public market later.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by nojito »

V__ wrote: post #89

Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one? If one believes Twitter has a free speech problem: Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department, lashes out against any criticism against him, canceled a preorder because he didn't like a journalists' article etc. Musk is great at self-promotion and this often helps his companies in some sense, but what else does h…

The only problem twitter has is with monetization. It's absolutely ridiculous that they still can't make money.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by philliphaydon »

h2odragon wrote: post #72

flood of "what will/should happen to twitter now?" bloviation incoming. So here's mine: Musk should make Twitter a public utility. Nominal fee for an account, anyone can have one (or many!); they can be removed for actual illegal behavior (with reference to some government authority for redress) or technical TOS reasons, and thats it. Let the 4chan bloom.

God if I could pay $2/m for Twitter with an option to only see tweets from people who pay. Twitter would be the best social media experience by a long shot.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by esarbe »

sidcool wrote: post #73

I m a Musk fan boy, but I feel Twitter should remain public and not under Musk. He's brilliant but a private company cannot be claimed as a bastion of free speech. Even if it's my idol Musk.

No company can ever be a 'bastion of free speech' since it's always beholden to the interests of the investors.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by nprateem »

boredumb wrote: post #105

People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself. Twitter, despite being a toxic place the majority of people avoid, brought in over 5 billion dollars last year. If elon removes bots, welcomes non-extremists back on, gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills…

Comedians like Stephan Fry left exactly because people were saying whatever they wanted and being abusive. You can't have it both ways.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by Chris2048 »

V__ wrote: post #89

Looking at the problems Twitter has, why does anyone think Musk can even solve one? If one believes Twitter has a free speech problem: Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department, lashes out against any criticism against him, canceled a preorder because he didn't like a journalists' article etc. Musk is great at self-promotion and this often helps his companies in some sense, but what else does h…

> Musk shouts about free speech but shut down Teslas PR department

What has Tesla PR got to do with free speech?

Or cancelling a pre-order?

Journalists and "the media" have little to do with free speech in general, and maybe even a negative effect on free speech if it is though that media representation is an alternative.

It's also notable that freedom to express an opinion, and freedom to express something as factual as somewhat different. Twitter generally deals with opinion (and does a poor job of dealing with facts/fact-checking).

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