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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

#501

Does anyone else feel like he's going to start doing petty shit like banning people he doesn't like (e.g. that musk flight tracker account)? He talks a lot about free speech but he has a track record of limiting speech on the platform (blocking multiple people) and off (making the founders of Tesla sign a hush contract).

No

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

#502

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…

> If elon removes bots

Why would he remove bots? Isn’t having bots post on my behalf covered under my free speech?

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

#503

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…

> just rage bait again.

But he IS rage bait. He taunts, mocks, and slimes social media constantly. How could his leadership look any better if he treats it like shit personally?

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

#504

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…

Why would someone so successful with productive work take on something so unproductive?

This looks like classic overstep.

If only there was a rational segment of investors ready to make a counterpoint here about anyone saying they are going to fix Twitter ... LOL ...

This is the universe balancing itself. Elon will have to mess up Elon, and my bet (or wishful thinking) is this inflection point right here. He'll be going to Mars to forget this mess.

Popcorn, please!

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

#506

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…

Twitter's toxicity comes from human being human not twitter being twitter

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

#507

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…

None of these things would even remotely make me consider using Twitter regularly

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

#508

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…

>lets people say what they want

At that point twitter will get problems with many countries and their laws like the Network Enforcement Act in Germany.

It could get a similar reputation like telegram as a place for conspiracy theorists and extremists.

I don't know if this attracts many ad partners.

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

#509

It's hard to imagine anything good coming from the world's richest man owning one of the world's largest information dissemination systems. Do we really need to concentrate power even more than it already is?

lol...like Twitter was some kind of bastion of information dissemination for the people, rather than a massive narrative filter and amplifier. The irony is that a lot of people are hoping he can return Twitter to a place of a less restricted conversation...

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

#510

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…

"let people say what they want"

I actually think this will be the demise of Twitter.

No content moderation makes harassment and abuse rampant and the good users will flee and you're left with a cesspool of hate.

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