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Murdoch has used this to maintain control over Fox for some time. "Rupert Murdoch plans to 'poison' News Corp takeover bids" [1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/24/news-corp-rupe...
Elon is a self-professed "free-speech absolutist." I don't think it's good for absolutists of any stripe to run our social media companies. There's no quick fix for the problems twitter faces.
I don't think free speech is being absolutist. The goal in the constitution is to have free speech be the norm.
The goal in the US Constitution is to prevent the government from abridging people's right to free speech. Twitter is not the government.
Ideas on what Musk could do? Maybe he could control much more twitter stock through friendly shareholders. e.g. I buy $1B of Twitter stock with money I borrow from Elon and pledge those shares to elect Elon's board members and what not. He'd just need 4 friendlies, and they don't even have to be billionaires. What can we collectively do to help Musk take control of twitter? Are there are any GameStop short-squeeze st…
There may be some kind of WallStreetBets technical maneuver around it. But it doesn't sound like it will be easy
Elon taking over Twitter would be a good thing for Twitter and probably a bad thing for him. Twitter is dying, and could probably use a fundamental revamp which Elon would provide. However Elon really has more important things to worry about.
If Musk, or anyone, has solutions to the problems with freedom of speech that have existed since civilization, let's hear them. If the ideas are good and he's the best person to implement them, then there's a good chance that people will want to do it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think free speech is being absolutist. The goal in the constitution is to have free speech be the norm.
"free-speech absolutism" is an absolute view toward free speech. GP isn't saying supporting free speech itself is absolutism. The goal in the US Constitution is to prevent the government from abridging people's right to free speech. Twitter is not the government.
That's why Elons attempting to buy it.
To provide a more fair less propaganda filled platform to the world.
The founding fathers believed a free and private press was essential to a healthy democracy.
Ideas on what Musk could do? Maybe he could control much more twitter stock through friendly shareholders. e.g. I buy $1B of Twitter stock with money I borrow from Elon and pledge those shares to elect Elon's board members and what not. He'd just need 4 friendlies, and they don't even have to be billionaires. What can we collectively do to help Musk take control of twitter? Are there are any GameStop short-squeeze st…
Elon taking over Twitter would be a good thing for Twitter and probably a bad thing for him. Twitter is dying, and could probably use a fundamental revamp which Elon would provide. However Elon really has more important things to worry about.
every suggestion he's floated so far is bad. edit button, open source algorithm, "time outs" instead of bans, "free speech". all of these ideas have obvious flaws that he does not address and none of them would be sufficient to drastically change twitter's stagnant share price. If Musk, or anyone, has solutions to the problems with freedom of speech that have existed since civilization, let's hear them. If the ideas…
Although not guaranteed to solve the issue of "free speech", I would be interested to see the results of a social media service that is not designed to maximize engagement to drive the most ad dollars.
This means Twitter's board probably isn't interested in accepting a buy-out at a significant price premium. Very curious to see how this develops, and I'd love to know what's going through twitter's boards' heads.
Elon taking over Twitter would be a good thing for Twitter and probably a bad thing for him. Twitter is dying, and could probably use a fundamental revamp which Elon would provide. However Elon really has more important things to worry about.
every suggestion he's floated so far is bad. edit button, open source algorithm, "time outs" instead of bans, "free speech". all of these ideas have obvious flaws that he does not address and none of them would be sufficient to drastically change twitter's stagnant share price. If Musk, or anyone, has solutions to the problems with freedom of speech that have existed since civilization, let's hear them. If the ideas…