Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child
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What's your basis for this though? The last time Trump was all over Twitter no one left in protest they simply spent more time there being outraged and following every single tweet of his. Just look at the Trump Presidency thread. It's packed with both centrists and leftists linking al manner of Trump tweets just to laugh/be outraged. Whatever Musk does with twitter, its not going to affect any business with Tesla and SpaceX.
I think Trump's situation was in a previous chapter of Twitter's history that many have learned /moved on from,. If Musk, as the actual owner of Twitter, begins abusing his role by enabling all kinds of unsavory behavior, I think there's a massive opportunity for a new service to emerge that offers the governance balance its users are looking for. I personally don't think Musk is going to rock the boat too much, since it would affect his other businesses, at least one of which relies on US government contracts, and the other on Chinese factories as the primary manufacturer of its vehicles.
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That would be nice if it happened but I'll believe it when I see it. I think Trump created a lot of political masochists from all segments and I can see that returning if Musk simply lets him back on.
So whose DMs will he be taking a sneaky look at first?
Personally, I'm fine with it as long as he leaves the Nightclub Photos account well alone.
Personally, I'm fine with it as long as he leaves the Nightclub Photos account well alone.
That's about $26b in net worth lost just this morning
Having a loose cannon for a CEO must be an investors worst nightmare.
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I've absolutely no idea how true this is
Christ.
Botnets are trying their luck already.
This actually raises more questions than answers. Which countries censorship laws does he plan to uphold? Wil it be for whatever is the law of that land. Different standards for UK vs USA vs Saudi Arabia?
Will he start running Twitter on his own and get involved in poltics of each country.
Would be stupid and his downfall.
Would be stupid and his downfall.
It’ll be the same laws that regulate Twitter now. The difference being they currently try to head of legal challenge with self regulation. He’s implying he’s willing to let things escalate and allow the courts sort it out. Which would be an insanely expensive and risky strategy.
Of course, he’s probably just talking out of his hole. He does that a lot.
44 billions to shut the twitter account that followed his flights? That will show him...
I hope he lets Trump back on, the Trump thread has been rubbish for ages
I don't understand why?
Because they assume musk is more likley to spend his time tweeting people are peados than running tesla?
On one hand, that would be bad for democracy, but on the other hand covfefe
Don’t try understanding Tesla valuation, it’s never made the slightest bit of sense.
They are worth 35% of the entire market cap
It has, and always will be an utter crock of nonsense, the valuation is based on Musk himself, not how many cars they can sell.
Haven’t you been following TSLA?
He's literally the worst person in the world.
It’s been quite the opposite for Tesla, they still sell hardly any cars in comparison to VW, Ford, Toyota, yet the loose canon’s antics have their valuation up to 35% of the entire market cap. It’s utterly insane.
He’s been great for investors.
Elon Musk used to come across quite a hip and modern thinking fellow. Not sure how be turned into this right wing favourite / left wing enemy and loose cannon personality.
Twitter being regulated only to the extent of the law is completely irresponsible imo. A platform like Twitter which is naturally geared towards people talking nonsense (due to how easy it is to spout nonsense when facing a monitor) needs to be regulated to set solid principles and controls. It's like a top Multinational thinking it doesn't have any obligation on the culture at its workplace (not exactly but somewhat). This place has rules not to silence free speech but not raise the level of discourse.
Twitter being regulated only to the extent of the law is completely irresponsible imo. A platform like Twitter which is naturally geared towards people talking nonsense (due to how easy it is to spout nonsense when facing a monitor) needs to be regulated to set solid principles and controls. It's like a top Multinational thinking it doesn't have any obligation on the culture at its workplace (not exactly but somewhat). This place has rules not to silence free speech but not raise the level of discourse.
Yeh he’s walking back now, it’ll be the same as it is now basically. Platforms like twitter require fast moderation to avoid devolving into a complete cesspit.
He made tweak the TOS slightly but I expect Trump and the other million users banned for the same reasons are going to be disappointed.
He believes in climate change though, doesn't he? The far right won't like that.
I'm pretty sure it's already like that? At least in theory, every service that is targeted at Norwegians has to follow Norwegian law, for example (in most cases Norwegian law is quite similar to EU law). I would assume it's the same for the UK, for example.
Suppose he can control the crypto world now.
A dark day, the man is a snake
Because Musk needs cash to buy Twitter, which means he will deviate resources from Tesla. It was expected and bound to get a hit as soon as news broke.