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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Interesting.
I think she was at Harvard Law around the time of Caliph Baraq.
Equity and accountability = censorship.
The Washington Post’s antipathy towards Elon makes me respect him more.
Free Speech worked pretty well, I think anyone who wants to censor should be told to F off.
In fact I think only a vile kook leftist would even think otherwise.
Isn’t Twitter run by that messed up goat looking weirdo? Yeah I want him deciding. Not.
Not only better but one with much more upside. Twitter ran off all the conservatives and Trump, who was one of their biggest traffic generators. Musk knows they all will return given the chance, which would mean massive growth for Twitter.
No matter what Bezos does, he’s only going to LOST audience as old libs who reat the WaPo die off - zero conservatives are every going to be on his platform.
Cry me a river. If I had a Twitter account, I would have been banned by now because I refuse to go along with the lie that a man can magically become a woman and vice versa.
I know the answer but why are these leftist creeps so afraid of someone saying something?
I mean Good God!
Hmmm. How is this different from socialists buying into our republic and corrupting the system to meet their commie goals?
It’s great that Elon is using the same playbook against them while they are too stupid to know it.
92% should be 9.2%.
“an abuser of the service — Elon Musk”
WaPos - an open sewer spewing toxic waste.
Plenty of black BLM crazies have already suggested that, because he’s from South Africa (which he left when he was 17).
This cow almost certainly works for Beijing,despite her parents being Taiwanese immigrants. Per wiki she was forced to step down as reddit CEO due to her banning zeal
Congress creates the laws in this nation, other than state and
municipal laws. Those cannot strike down national laws.
The large corporations are instituting their own laws. That
is not backed by law.
They are illegally setting up their own laws to supersede
the law of the land. Sooner or later this is going to come
back to haunt them.
How could ANYTHING be “bad” for twittsville?
You cant say that about an African-American!
I am still not sure why Bezos left his wife for the then married Lauren Sanchez, especially when Bezos sent Sanchez pictures of his member. She looks like she had a very bad face job.
Worth mentioning that Twitter has totally SUCKED as an investment until Musk bought his stake. Twitter shareholders need to thank Musk.
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