Removed my tw?tter account in a week, after reading the Terms of Service. Won't regret even if it dies.
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
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#212He's blatently planning on running for president
Can't see South Africa electing a white person for president in the near future or ever
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#213Twitter shouldn't have part time leadership. So now Twitter should have part time leadership. I'm being unfair, right? So let's qualify that: Twitter shouldn't have part time leadership that is distracted by cryptocurrency. Wait, no...
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#214From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries don't know the value of free speech and often take it for granted. Sometimes even coming to such views as "free speech is dangerous" and that "we should limit free speech" (by blocking the views I don't like). Understand this: limits on free speech are far more dangerous to society than allowing fringe e…
The principle of free speech is what lets Twitter (which is just a collection of private people) decide which content to publish or not publish.
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#215Buying Twitter is probably an easy way to get that Twitter account tracking his airplane to be closed down Personally, I am seeing this a potential way to limit the freedom even more on Twitter than already happening.
Let me guess, the 2020 election was stolen and you also believed in Pizzagate?
Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
#216From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries don't know the value of free speech and often take it for granted. Sometimes even coming to such views as "free speech is dangerous" and that "we should limit free speech" (by blocking the views I don't like). Understand this: limits on free speech are far more dangerous to society than allowing fringe e…
free speech as an american concept does not cover private businesses, it's specifically meant to curb government censorship
if private businesses had to uphold the same standards the internet would very quickly devolve into every space becoming 4chan... you'd see people protesting inside of stores, it would be a mess
maybe there's a call to make a platform like twitter a public utility, that would possibly solve it, but what a thorny situation that would be... I imagine the rules would likely be more restrictive than they are now, despite censorship laws. I'd guess they'd want to strip anonymity as well.
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Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
#218Since Elon bought his 9% stake, the value of Twitter increased.
He mentions selling his shares if the takeover is not accepted.
That would make him a lot of money!
His offer is also on the high side, this might make people bullish about twitter. On the other hand, I do think he is genuinely interested in buying twitter.
But can't help to feel this might also be lucrative for him if the deal doesn't go through.
It seems like Musk has a love hate relationship public companies... That's why SpaceX is still private.
Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
#219As a Twitter shareholder I would vote against this. Musk says there is tremendous financial potential in Twitter but then offers $54 a share, which is not even 2x the IPO price. That’s not a “tremendous potential” premium. There is a lot of evidence that platforms which de-prioritize moderation have trouble attracting revenue and experience significant compliance costs. See: the sad story of Moot, who ran one of the…
moot made 4chan and ran it off servers in his basement because he was inspired by Futaba channel and 2chan, and he wanted to create an English-oriented forum to discuss anime with others in an anonymous fashion.
I wouldn't say he got nothing to show for it, considering his goal never was financial gain or anything of the sort.
Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private
#220From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries don't know the value of free speech and often take it for granted. Sometimes even coming to such views as "free speech is dangerous" and that "we should limit free speech" (by blocking the views I don't like). Understand this: limits on free speech are far more dangerous to society than allowing fringe e…
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