Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
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Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#2Murdoch 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...
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#3Elon 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.
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#4Elon 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.
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#5So Twitter changes the rules after a move from Musk?
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#6So Twitter changes the rules after a move from Musk?
This is standard de rigeur defense against the prospect of an hostile takeover.
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#7Elon’s views are extreme in the sense that no current and popular social media is being run with a light touch approach to moderation. I’m not sure how he plans to combat scams and bots, two issues which go against an absolutist free speech approach.
I do think Elon being closely involved with running Twitter is a net good. We’ve tried a lot of different approaches to social media, now perhaps it’s time to try laissez faire.
The unfortunate side effect of experimentation is that if Elon succeeds in a Twitter takeover, Twitter is both more likely to become much more successful, _and_ more likely to die. Right now Twitter is floating in between, a solid offering with few prospects for growth and unlikely to be superseded in the near future.
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#8Ideas 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 strategies here?
Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#9Elon’s views are extreme in the sense that no current and popular social media is being run with a light touch approach to moderation. I’m not sure how he plans to combat scams and bots, two issues which go against an absolutist free speech approach. I do think Elon being closely involved with running Twitter is a net good. We’ve tried a lot of different approaches to social media, now perhaps it’s time to try laisse…
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Re: Twitter adopts poison pill in bid to thwart Elon Musk takeover
#10Elon 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.