Posted on 04/08/2022 2:20:45 PM PDT by Rummyfan
It takes a lot of money to become a board member of Twitter, but not a lot else apparently. With a large stock purchase, an abuser of the service — Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and the world’s richest man — has now essentially bought himself a warm welcome from Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. For those of us who care about equity and accountability, Musk’s appointment to such a prominent role at a platform that serves hundreds of millions of users daily is highly disconcerting — a slap in the face, even.
Musk has been open about his preference that Twitter do less to restrict speech that many see as hateful, abusive or dangerous. Given his new influence, the way he himself has used the platform bodes ill for its future. Musk paid $20 million in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and stepped down as Tesla’s chairman, after tweeting what the SEC said was misleading information about a potential transaction to take the company private; the settlement also required that any Musk tweets about the company’s finance be reviewed by lawyers. (He continues to flout SEC rules, failing to notify the agency immediately last month when he passed the threshold of owning 5 percent of Twitter’s shares. The 11-day delay in that declaration may have netted him $156 million, experts say — since shares shot up after investors learned of his purchases.)
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Libs got their collective panties in a knot do they??
Then it must be a good thing for the rest of us.
Embrace the suck.
The left is going nuts about Musk, almost as bad as us saying, “OK, groomer.”
Their hair is on fire. Good!!!
SHE cannot accomplish in a lifetime what Elon can do between breakfast & lunch in one day.
The Washington Compost is the official record of communist in America. It is that obvious.
Given the LIEberal flack he is receiving, Musk MUST be over the target!
OMG NO! Not free speech!
Elon’s left big toe has a higher IQ than the entire staff of WaPo’s combined.
Oh, no! We might have mean tweets! LOL
Oh, the Compost is against Musk.
Good to know.
By next week, I bet the MSM will be telling their sheep that Musk is racist.
Have the journalists at WaPo ever heard of Jeff Bezos?
-PJ
Wouldn’t it be something if Musk started cutting the crap out there put on Twitter by the libs.
Boy, I hope that comes to pass.
Interesting coming from a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, second (or third?) richest man in the world and founder of Amazon.com, one of China’s biggest business partners.
Bezos is royally p!ssed off that Musk bought himself a better platform with a louder megaphone than the one Bezos bought for himself ...
Dear jeff. Not really.
“Musk’s appointment to Twitter’s board shows that we need regulation of social-media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.” — Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos).
Apparently they prefer to have government controlling our channels of communication.
Ellen Pao was the censor-in-chief CEO at Reddit who got fired. She was also married to the gay black investment banker, Buddy Fletcher, who sued Kidder Peabody for racial discrimination after being fired for cause. Then he went to start a fund management firm that had to liquidate its assets due to a margin call.
To the left, free speech involves controlling what people can say. I guess it takes a special kind of intellect, or lack thereof, to make sense of it. Ignorance is strength.
I didn’t know free speech had certain visions. Free speech is free speech.
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