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Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Post by ianai »

ss108 wrote: post #58

> Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial I don't think we have evidence to support this. Pursuant to the last major thread on the topic, I was thinking further about it, and realized that the vast majority of progress civilization has made has been under conditions much more regulated in terms of which ideas may propagate. We've never had a situation where fake news can and does spread the way it does t…

Hey maybe he’ll finally reveal his true nature in an irrefutable way and society can progress a little.

Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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prepend wrote: post #69

I think social media is a real negative force in the world and welcome this as potentially a way to make it better, or at least destroy Twitter and remove one outlet. I don’t think public companies can reform social media because it’s too profitable. As a private company it may be possible to reform it to still be profitable, but not in a way that harms people.

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Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Post by incomingpain »

Who didn't know this was coming?

Imagine you're Musk. You have a bijjilion and 1 $. You use twitter heavily and see huge issues, you even see the results of your poll. You buy it for $50 billion and you fix those huge issues because they are in fact trivial to solve. The valuation of twitter would only go up, but Musk isn't even looking at it from a value investing point of view. He's looking at it from a societal point of view. He's looking at it from a 'worth more than currency' value.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

-Albert Einstein

This isn't about nation to nation. This is about so many subjects. The peace between the republicans and democrats is only being kept by force right now. Censoring your political opponents eliminates the possibility of understanding.

Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Post by asdfaoeu »

Tenoke wrote: post #71

>As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. This seems like he's mostly trolling them or looking for an excuse to sell. The…

He only needs a majority of the shareholders to agree.
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