Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Twitter is a basket case, loses money, makes money for a couple of years and goes onto lose it again.

I can only assume he secured ~50% in loans and leveraged buy out loans due to the fact that Twitter has such a mass of users (and that he put up ~50%) that it probably wont depreciate too much.

Another interesting thing is Musk's interesting past with shutting down those who have criticised him online, plus being aggressive to unfriendly reporters. Wonder how his new free speech drive will tie in with them.

Despite what Musk has said about free speech lets not forget he has a history of saying things to get what he wants. The right to free speech as laid down in the First Amendment does not prohibit private citizens, businesses, and organisations from restricting speech. If it suits him he'll shut down free speech in a heartbeat.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

How dare he spend his own money to make Twitter allow more freedom of speech!!!
He should be keeping it in his own pocket or funding Fred Karnos Democrat Army like the owners of the filthy rich US corporations who have become so rich through out and out capitalist business.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Don‘t know why but he reminds me of a Bond villain.

More like an Austin Powers villain …

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Only a matter of time before the Scousers claimed him and twitter .....

 

[BlueHammer85]

Twitter is just Troll paradise

 

[mexico1970]

Twitter is just Troll paradise

The BBC has dragged out every excuse why someone can't buy a private company. Stars and vultures alike announcing that they will leave the platform and it's a sad day for democracy.

These people wouldn't know what democracy looked like if it slapped them in the fizzog ;)

 

[blueinsa]

Hopefully his plan is to send it on his first rocket to Mars with a one way ticket!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I'm fortunate (/unfortunate?) to have a pretty large following on there and honestly I don't have to seek out these spats and cranks. I can tweet the most inane, harmless thing and be inundated with utter shite, and I defo don't follow dickheads either. It can be very tiring. I'm not complaining, but just pointing out that people's experiences wildly differ. I'm a white, straight bloke in my 30s too. It's meant to be relatively easy for me. Can't imagine what it's like just being a woman on there, never mind openly gay etc.

You’ve made yourself known on there, so opened yourself up to comments from all sorts of people from sound to pond life.

I guess we all put up with more than we should in the workplace at times and Twitter is yours and so you have to suck it up there.

I assume that most people with larger followings use the mute and block button and/or don’t real all replies as it would sent them insane.

I don’t envy you on having to deal with that side of Twitter though.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Getting people cancelled isn't a thing.

Cancelled is an American slang term that millennial Americans used when cutting off a friend.

You can withdraw support from somebody but you can't really force others to do so.

People claiming to have been cancelled for their views are usually just getting the consequences of their bad behaviour and misconduct.

Cancel culture lives in the same distortion of reality as PC gone mad and "Woke culture".

True, but it doesn’t stop people wanting people to be cancelled.

Look at Zouma, for instance. He did something extremely stupid. He’s been punished by having his cats taken off him and he’ll have his day in court where he‘ll get a fine too.

Twitter wanted him sacked! Just one example of the overexaggeration on there.

 

[inbetween]

Despite what Musk has said about free speech lets not forget he has a history of saying things to get what he wants. The right to free speech as laid down in the First Amendment does not prohibit private citizens, businesses, and organisations from restricting speech. If it suits him he'll shut down free speech in a heartbeat.

Musk attracts the harshest critics and I don't think he's ever attempted to shut that criticism down? He's been hit hard over the years and many want him to fail but that's because he is a challenge to the established order of things. He is however the only true big tech person that is out there to make things better and no-one can deny his success. He certainly isn't there to count his money like the other billionaires that's for sure.

What people don't like about this acquisition is that Twitter is useful to them as an anonymous political platform. I think he sees this as being beyond politics because Twitter really does have huge potential to become a universal communications platform. Currently it can't be freely used for that because it has been taken over by political acolytes and trolls. You can't say anything on there without some keyboard warrior having a problem with it.

Twitter has huge potential and I'm not surprised at all that he's bought it. By the sounds of it the first thing he'll do is solve the biggest problem on there which is anonymity by mandating verification. As soon as people are unmasked you can absolutely guarantee that 'free speech' will change considerably from what it used to be...

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

True, but it doesn’t stop people wanting people to be cancelled.

Look at Zouma, for instance. He did something extremely stupid. He’s been punished by having his cats taken off him and he’ll have his day in court where he‘ll get a fine too.

Twitter wanted him sacked! Just one example of the overexaggeration on there.

True.

Brown Dog affair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

But nothing new. Many animal rights activists have always been so passionate that they detach from reality.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

How dare he spend his own money to make Twitter allow more freedom of speech!!!

Is this some sort of parody within a parody or are you really that naive?

 

[domalino]

How dare he spend his own money to make Twitter allow more freedom of speech!!!

If yout think he's actually going to bring more freedom of speech to Twitter I have some tartan paint to sell you.

Elon Musk doesn't give a shit about freedom of speech, he literally cancelled a guys Tesla order because he said something mean about him. He's sued people who reviewed his cars negatively, he sent investigators to find out the identity of an anonymous blogger who wrote up a bad stock projection for TSLA so he could contact their employer to get them fired.

He has a record of firing people for disagreeing with him, or reporting racist abuse, or discussing a union.

Even if he did care about free speech, it's impossible to bring freedom of speech to twitter, because that means freedom to libel people, or promote hate speech or spread illegal content... all of which Twitter will be held liable for...and now Twitter = Musk.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Musk attracts the harshest critics and I don't think he's ever attempted to shut that criticism down? He's been hit hard over the years and many want him to fail but that's because he is a challenge to the established order of things. He is however the only true big tech person that is out there to make things better and no-one can deny his success. He certainly isn't there to count his money like the other billionaires that's for sure.

What people don't like about this acquisition is that Twitter is useful to them as an anonymous political platform. I think he sees this as being beyond politics because Twitter really does have huge potential to become a universal communications platform. Currently it can't be freely used for that because it has been taken over by political acolytes and trolls. You can't say anything on there without some keyboard warrior having a problem with it.

Twitter has huge potential and I'm not surprised at all that he's bought it. By the sounds of it the first thing he'll do is solve the biggest problem on there which is anonymity by mandating verification. As soon as people are unmasked you can absolutely guarantee that 'free speech' will change considerably from what it used to be...

Human verification and anonymity are not the same things.

Captcha and mobile phone numbers are basic forms of human verification, nothing about anonymity though.

There are currently clips being shared on twitter and telegram from Ukraine and other conflicts.

Take away the anonymity and you will have less videos from news events around the world.

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Is this some sort of parody within a parody or are you really that naive?

Is this some sort of parody within a parody or are you really that naive?
[/QUOTE
Your post makes as little sense as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris's ramblings.
It seems you disagree with something I said but find some difficulty in articulating it.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Is twitter now a safe space to joke about Musk being a pedo?

 

[Tugay One Cup]

Your post makes as little sense as Joe Biden or Kamala Harris's ramblings.
It seems you disagree with something I said but find some difficulty in articulating it.

Come on, man, at least if you're going to try and make yourself look like a smartarse then you could have the decency of not requiring me to reformat your post in my response.

 

[bluemoon32]

What a whopping **** Elon Musk is

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Come on, man, at least if you're going to try and make yourself look like a smartarse then you could have the decency of not requiring me to reformat your post in my response.

It seems you and I have something in common. Neither of us knows you are saying after two posts. You 'teformat my post '?? You're worse than Kamala.
Let's Go Tugay . Let's Go Tugay..
It's too nice a day to row about the world's most ridiculous nation.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Musk attracts the harshest critics and I don't think he's ever attempted to shut that criticism down? He's been hit hard over the years and many want him to fail but that's because he is a challenge to the established order of things. He is however the only true big tech person that is out there to make things better and no-one can deny his success. He certainly isn't there to count his money like the other billionaires that's for sure.

What people don't like about this acquisition is that Twitter is useful to them as an anonymous political platform. I think he sees this as being beyond politics because Twitter really does have huge potential to become a universal communications platform. Currently it can't be freely used for that because it has been taken over by political acolytes and trolls. You can't say anything on there without some keyboard warrior having a problem with it.

Twitter has huge potential and I'm not surprised at all that he's bought it. By the sounds of it the first thing he'll do is solve the biggest problem on there which is anonymity by mandating verification. As soon as people are unmasked you can absolutely guarantee that 'free speech' will change considerably from what it used to be...

It's not simply a case of Trolls and political acolytes uploading content to the platform, Twitter also has ways and means of filtering and controlling who sees what, aside from just blocking people like Trump.

I don't always see content from people I follow pop up in my feed. Feed content is the result of an algorithm which is based on a number of key factors and inputs such as what similar posts I'm interacting with, how long I'm viewing content, what time of the day is it, key words, etc.

Twitter can control those algorithms in real time and influence what people interact with without most folk even realising, and if someone wanted to influence say global stock prices or a particular political opinion (that may influence commerce or international trade, etc) that is a VERY powerful tool for someone like Musk to have FULL control over.