Musk offers to buy Twitter

[gollum]

Musk offers to buy Twitter

He's always entertaining, I highly suspect that he'll do his famous flip-flops and retract the bid.

 

[Eric]

Musk offers to buy Twitter

He's always entertaining, I highly suspect that he'll do his famous flip-flops and retract the bid.

The world's richest troll, going after politicians and social media, we're just lucky he can't run for president.

 

[Cmaier]

Would be very bad news if he succeeds.

 

[SuperMatt]

Our economic system is broken. One person having enough personal wealth to just buy Twitter? People like Musk and Bezos are more powerful than many monarchs.

 

[cloudflare420]

Classic pump and dump once Twitter turns him down

 

[Herdfan]

Classic pump and dump once Twitter turns him down

Not sure Twitter has a choice. He can simply keep buying up shares on the open market. Then he still gets control, but is pissed he had to do it that way.

And the shareholder's will be pissed if his offer is rejected because he is offering a premium over the current price.

 

[ronntaylor]

A more accurate headline: Musk vows to destroy Twitter.

 

[Herdfan]

Would be very bad news if he succeeds.

Just wondering why you think that?

Will he let Trump back on? Maybe.

Will he stop them from suspending the accounts of legit news organizations who publish things the left doesn't want published (Hunter's laptop anyone?)? Definitely!

 

[Eric]

A more accurate headline: Musk vows to destroy Twitter.

I think it's already destroyed and will eventually go the way of MySpace and FB, I say let Elon go down with the ship.

 

[Cmaier]

I think it's already destroyed and will eventually go the way of MySpace and FB, I say let Elon go down with the ship.

Problem is, first thing he’ll do is “free speech”-ize it. He can do a lot of damage to society on the way down.

 

[Herdfan]

Problem is, first thing he’ll do is “free speech”-ize it. He can do a lot of damage to society on the way down.

There is a difference between misinformation and free speech.

 

[DT]

There is a difference between misinformation and free speech.

Not in his mind, he wants a totally unfettered, uncontrolled wild west without any curation: medical misinformation, hate speech, a platform for every disgusting, vile part of humanity to have a platform.

 

[Herdfan]

Not in his mind, he wants a totally unfettered, uncontrolled wild west without any curation: medical misinformation, hate speech, a platform for every disgusting, vile part of humanity to have a platform.

Then maybe Twitter should have thought about this when they were suspending legit news organizations.

 

[lizkat]

Who knows what Musk wants with Twitter. He's an exemplar of a modern day lost soul half the time.

I wouldn't be upset if more news organizations told their reporters to quit relying on Twitter to provide ideas for their reporting. The original intent of the papers regarding Twitter -- in encouraging reporters to create accounts and use them-- was to draw attention to the papers' finished work, not to scout around for ideas for the next edition.

Meanwhile pols all realized their tweets could become a major part of their campaign, and that traditional media would get suckered into giving their tweets free airtime and column inches, and that is exactly what has happened. The result? For those who follow politics, social media increasingly provides just a platform for airing of conspiracy theories and for cheap shot-taking by pols.

Twitter's perfectly within its rights as a site owner to moderate tweets as it sees fit. Of course if Musk buys it out completely, and allows even more garbage tweets to persist on the site than is the case now, it will probably hasten the decline of the site in terms of general interest. I like discussions in there on birdwatching and quilting, but Twitter's not the only venue for like-minded netizens.

If the tools to block out garbage are not robust enough, people who don't enjoy wading through the muck will just leave, and Twitter ends up being just another garbage echo chamber. Not even two dogs arguing over an empty bowl. Just a pack of like minded dogs howling at the moon. Boring...

 

[Eric]

There is a difference between misinformation and free speech.

There's also a difference between free speech and hate speech, the latter of which was instrumental for Republicans in the Jan 6 insurrection. Imagine how much more successful the Nazis would've been had they had Twitter back then.

 

[SuperMatt]

Then maybe Twitter should have thought about this when they were suspending legit news organizations.

What news organization(s) did they suspend, and why?

 

[JayMysteri0]

What could possibly go wrong?

The man got petty when he wasn't the one to grab the glory saving some miners.

The man spread Covid misinformation. Who knows how much harm that may have caused.

The man lied about gaining private financing to take his current company private. The SEC went after him because of the harm it may have caused.

The man did NOT follow the law and announce when he acquired all of his Twitter stock, thus he's now being sued because of the effect it may have had on others.

THIS is the guy who thinks can make Twitter better, and imagines he's a champion of free speech.

The only persons this guy is a champion of, is every asshole & troll who who wants to yell "Fire" in a theatre & avoid the consequences.

Elon Musk is no free speech messiah

According to Musk, free speech costs about $3 billion.

www.vox.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is a play to save the trolls

Greedy social media networks already let the trolls have too much power — yet Musk thinks it's not enough

www.salon.com

"Even though little has been done to stop Musk's childish antics on the site, he quite clearly feels that, overall, Twitter is not friendly enough to COVID-19 denialists, neo-Nazis, and other assorted scum, even as such communities thrive on Twitter. (Though the company did finally ban Donald Trump.) Unfortunately, Musk has nearly unlimited funds to accomplish his dream of making the already insufferable social media network even more unbearably thick with right-wing trolls."

 

[Herdfan]

What news organization(s) did they suspend, and why?

New York Post for the Hunter laptop story. Twitter locked their account until they removed the story.

Twitter Still Blocking a NY Post Story Based on Alleged Hunter Biden Emails, Newspaper’s Account Remains Frozen

Twitter is inconsistently applying policy to a series of unconfirmed reports by the New York Post about Joe Biden's son Hunter.

variety.com

You know the one that came out in October of 2020 and was dismissed as Russian propaganda by most of the media. The same one that the NYT finally said it was true and the WaPo called it an "opportunity for a reckoning".

And for some reason they still don't understand why their public trust is so low.

 

[Eric]

New York Post for the Hunter laptop story. Twitter locked their account until they removed the story.

Twitter Still Blocking a NY Post Story Based on Alleged Hunter Biden Emails, Newspaper’s Account Remains Frozen

Twitter is inconsistently applying policy to a series of unconfirmed reports by the New York Post about Joe Biden's son Hunter.

variety.com

You know the one that came out in October of 2020 and was dismissed as Russian propaganda by most of the media. The same one that the NYT finally said it was true and the WaPo called it an "opportunity for a reckoning".

And for some reason they still don't understand why their public trust is so low.

Every time a hyperpartisan rabid Republican brings up the president's son's laptop...