Elon Musk V. Twitter
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So if you own a piece of stock you’ll get paid out or do you become a private investor?
Paid out 54.20 per. Which really sucks for those who bought at the top and were holding out for a nice bull run.
Yeah, either way, Elon will end up angering all sides before too long.
Elon Musk warned he must protect Twitter users
The European Union and Downing Street say the billionaire must be responsible as he agrees $44bn takeover.
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Time to buy the EU next
They banned me just for making an account. My first and only account was banned the same day and I never even made a tweeter or anything at all. That MySpace Tom guy would've never done that to me.
We will find out how much he cares about free speech when China leans on him. China didn't have the leverage over Twitter it has now.
Turning data over to the ccp and censoring to get things he wants for Tesla in China are probably part of his calculas.
Not a fan of Elon but I couldn't care less who owns twitter, the people who are freaking out about this crack me up, especially the ones who threaten to leave, as if it's some big important thing to be on twitter and the world couldn't get by without hearing our personal take on something. Twitter is a joke that's taken far too seriously by people with power, the best thing Elon could do would be to buy it and shut it down lol.
He's financed a ton to buy Twitter. It isn't a joke to the guy who paid $43 billion. He's used Tesla to finance this purchase.
This is what wealthy people want you to think. Now, if a dozen of us leave, nobody will care. However if people leave en masse, we can really hurt his bottom line.
If it isn't some grand social statement, oh well, it is only Twitter. We'll find something else.
I won't support rich people propaganda. My fear is that he's going to want to spread misinformation about covid and basically anything else that benefits his bottom line. Musk was very unhappy when California shut his Tesla plants down during the worst of covid. It isn't as much about Trump as it is about things like that. What if he starts spreading covid misinformation that ends up getting more people killed, because it is in his corporate interests?
It is way beyond just Musk. Bezos owns WaPo (which is far more scary than this by a mile). It is troubling to see WaPo cover Amazon news and have to make that disclaimer. Don't get me wrong, the rich have always controlled the media, but how long before they have a clamp on everything we read and see?
The people who scream "free speech" are interested in anything but. People complain about cancel culture, but guess what? That's just someone else's free speech. That's how free speech works.
I don't approve of this. They should have thrown them off midflight
Cancel culture will ruin someone's life over something stupid, it's real and anyone who pretends it's not is sticking their head in the sand.. Someone saying they don't like what you said is free speech, someone trying to find out where you live, who your employer is, calling to try to get you fired etc that goes way beyond free speech.
I don't want Billionaires being in charge of everything either but they always have been and they always will be, even if they aren't billionaires when they start out if the company grows like twitter they will be by the end.
That's why I wish politicians and corporations ignored twitter when it comes to anything other than advertising what they are selling. Make your statements, announce your release dates but don't engage beyond that.
They are clearly idiots, she seems like she's on some kind of medication that's probably being abused along with alcohol but them bringing up Musk (another idiot) means nothing. Do you think they even use twitter? only 18% of people over 50 use twitter in the US, it's only 7% for those over 65. They are just repeating the same nonsense they hear everyone else talking about all day every day because that's what too many people in this country want to do now, argue.