Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

Post by hef19898 » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 1:08 PM UTC

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This discussion shows how far Musk's anti-SEC propaganda had taken effect. As far as I know (I could be mistaken, and too lazy to investigate that further), but the SEC doesn't have the power to block bank accounts of companies over illegal things shareholders or officers of the company did. That's how this discussion started: The SEC blackmailed Musk into signing a settlement or otherwise the SEC would block Tesla's…

How did bank accounts come into this? There was never any discussion about bank accounts. It's about financing of Tesla's debt. That's something that banks do, and banks could deny funding (even of a bank overdraft) for almost any reason really, like an SEC lawsuit. No-one ever talked about any bank account being blocked. But in a world of debt, where debt is provided by institutions, if you can control who gets loan…

Post by twox2 » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 1:16 PM UTC

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The board is simply obligated to entertain the offer, they will reject as it is not in the best long term interest of the share holders. Yes it is monetarily competitive but also Twitter will basically lose most of their users if Elon is in charge. It's no secret that he has alt right motives. A billionaire should not be able to do this in the first place.

Post by next_xibalba » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

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Here is a just one major example of censorship that was neither misinformation nor hate speech: The Hunter Biden laptop story. This story was broken by the right-leaning New York Post. Twitter banned its sharing in the weeks before the election, claiming it to be misinformation (with the implication that the leaking of its contents was part of a Russian plot). ~2 years later (when its relevance is greatly diminished)…

what is the meat of the hunter biden laptop story exactly? and how did twitter prevent it from behind shared on their platform?

Post by andruby » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 2:04 PM UTC

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He did code on Zip2 and sold that startup successfully. Also, his official title at SpaceX is "Chief Engineer" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

> He did code on Zip2 and sold that startup successfully. Selling a startup is not an engineering achievment but a business achievment. > Also, his official title at SpaceX is "Chief Engineer" Owning a company means you can give yourself whatever titles you want. So your entire argument seems to boil down to "he wrote code for Zip2", which happened a quarter of a century ago.

Post by hackerfromthefu » Mon, Apr 25, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

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The chutzpah of your armchair analysis! You just called the most successful businessman in the world an 'utterly inept businessman'. Literally the wealthiest person in the world and all achieved through business success! Defined and successfully delivering on multiple new markets, with a string of serial successes.

> You just called the most successful businessman in the world an 'utterly inept businessman'. Success is measured using market share not market cap or net worth of the CEO. Tesla accounted for 1.3% of all cars sold in the world during 2021. Stock price, net worth and number of synchopants getting on their knees are like a voting machine, market share is a weighting machine. When you use the right metric it becomes c…