Elon Musk Becomes Twitter’s Largest Shareholder…

[Ingomike]

There is no reliable news source today.
No purple implied or intended.

For sure, it is all corrupt. And definitely no purple needed…

 

[dmarsh8]

Only certainty in this move by Elon is that it was for Elon.

 

[DadSmith]

As the majority share holder does he have the ability to turn Twitter into a free speech platform?

 

[JettaKnight]

I think it is easy to make the argument. A president was silenced for political speech. That's pretty serious, in my book. I'm a little surprised you don't see the danger in this.

The President was silenced? Really? Or was troll kicked of a social media platform?
And are we really going to call what he was doing "political speech"?

The President has the WH website, news briefings, rallies, books, his favorite news channel, and a whole host of other platforms.

He's not even president anymore, but there's a whole lot of people that hear him.

 

[JettaKnight]

It wasn't just for political speech. It was for the wrong political speech.

It's hard to make that claim when there's thousands of people on Twitter speaking from the same side as him.

Call a spade a spade - it was trolling.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Well, I don't consider Twitter to be a valid news source.

 

[churchmouse]

Might just make it more difficult for Twitter to conspire with other big tech and government to flood the country with ******** propaganda to impact an election?

My immediate 1st thought.

 

[jake blue]

As the majority share holder does he have the ability to turn Twitter into a free speech platform?

To be clear, Musk is not the majority shareholder, he's just the largest single shareholder. He still only holds less than 10% of the shares and I read somewhere he's prohibited by the FTC from acquiring more than 15%. Nevertheless, as this situation developed apparently yesterday he was given a seat on the board and THAT is how he'll influence the platform. So it seems he did buy his way in but I wonder how long it'll be before he gets kicked back out. He's got a track record for flaunting rules and given an 'in' will probably only embolden him to push the boundaries even further.

 

[Expat]

I saw on the FB that twitter has announced they were already working on an edit button.

next announcement: they were already thinking of becoming a free speech platform.

 

[NHT3]

The President was silenced? Really? Or was troll kicked of a social media platform?
And are we really going to call what he was doing "political speech"?

The President has the WH website, news briefings, rallies, books, his favorite news channel, and a whole host of other platforms.

He's not even president anymore, but there's a whole lot of people that hear him.

Political speech or not, he's entitled to his opinion isn't he.

 

[phylodog]

Political speech or not, he's entitled to his opinion isn't he.

Not if he's all icky like Trump. Super Joe, now there's a significant improvement right there. We're all so much better off now.

 

[Ingomike]

Well, I don't consider Twitter to be a valid news source.

Jim Irsay tweeted the news yesterday of a new player signing before the team announced the event. Is that not news? That very thing happens everyday direct from the source, not some TV station hack…

 

[JettaKnight]

Political speech or not, he's entitled to his opinion isn't he.

Not if his avatar is Billy Dee Williams.

 

[Chalky]

I have a twitter account and use it as a news & info feed. It's especially useful on things that aren't covered by mainstream media. Say college sports like wrestling, lacrosse and shooting sports. It depends on who you follow as to what you will see. It's up to the individual to determine and filter things out. Same major stories on TV and print show up on twitter from those same sources. There are lots of things I don't like about twitter but it can be just as valid as other news sources. Funny how people will say x is no good although I have never tried or used x.

 

[actaeon277]

Political speech or not, he's entitled to his opinion isn't he.

Exactly.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

The President was silenced? Really?

Um. Yes. The president was silenced. He was silenced by a platform before an election took place for his office.




I think you’re trolling if I’m being honest.

 

[Ingomike]

I have a twitter account and use it as a news & info feed. It's especially useful on things that aren't covered by mainstream media. Say college sports like wrestling, lacrosse and shooting sports. It depends on who you follow as to what you will see. It's up to the individual to determine and filter things out. Same major stories on TV and print show up on twitter from those same sources. There are lots of things I don't like about twitter but it can be just as valid as other news sources. Funny how people will say x is no good although I have never tried or used x.

This, .

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I have a twitter account and use it as a news & info feed. It's especially useful on things that aren't covered by mainstream media. Say college sports like wrestling, lacrosse and shooting sports. It depends on who you follow as to what you will see. It's up to the individual to determine and filter things out. Same major stories on TV and print show up on twitter from those same sources. There are lots of things I don't like about twitter but it can be just as valid as other news sources. Funny how people will say x is no good although I have never tried or used x.

This is pretty much my MO. I rarely post there.

 

[cobber]

“No one has been more adept at using Twitter to control public narrative” than Musk,

That's a laugh.
Twitter seems more adept at controlling public narrative.

Typical leftist sniveling.