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.)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Twitter might become the perfect gateway platform for his constellation of G5 satellites.
Ellen Pao state: “Musk has been open about his preference that Twitter do less to restrict speech that many see as hateful, abusive or dangerous.”
Free speech means I am free to say what I wish, even if you find it hateful, abusive or dangerous.
Free speech means you are free to say what you wish, even I find it hateful, abusive or dangerous.
Free speech means you are free not to listen to me and I am free not to listen to you.
So what is the problem with free speech, Ms. Pao? We are both treated equally and truly free speech creates the “equitable outcome” you progressives claim to cherish.
“Oh, no! We might have mean tweets! LOL”
As you know, we already have them; and, as you know, if they’re by lefties they’re allowed.
All I had to see was WashPo and knew it was not worth reading
I was on the fence about the whole thing. I wondered what changes Musk would actually do, compared to what everyone predicted he’ll do.
But now that I know the Washington Compost hates it, I love it.
“Musk has been open about his preference that Twitter do less to restrict speech...”
Stop restricting free speech and people will start thinking they are free. Pao: “Quick, get them back in their cells!”
I don’t trust Musk any further than I can throw him. But, we’ll see.
All the right enemies.
Rd and laugh at the Compost later.
Anyone paying attention to whats going on in space right now...?
SpaceEx capsule just told it can’t dock for a couple hours...
A Leftist believes that only Leftists should have free speech, or any other rights.
Non-leftists are fascists, to be exterminated.
To the Left, any speech which may convince people to not support the Left's agenda is "hateful, abusive, or dangerous".
Any bill that protects American citizens is dubbed 'controversial' too. We hear a lot of that in Florida - DeSantis gets under their skin.
Conservatives see liberal speech as hateful and hurtful ... Too bad Washington Post idiots can't see that - yeah 'groom our kids' liberals - that's not hateful. /s
And a Russian agent.
I’ve never paid any attention to either Musk or Bezos.
I will, now.
WaPo are POS. They complain about Musk and say nothing about “fairness” and “equity” when it comes to Twitter censorship.
Gosh, Jeff Bezos’ garbage wrapper, the Washington ComPost, criticizes Elon Musk?
We may only speak freely in service of a collectivist vision. Other, reactionary visions must be crushed. /s
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