Here's the obvious problem on the surface:
The fear seems to be that Musk would change the current content moderation system. Mainly replacing the whim system (inherently political) with a system of transparent rules--the one thing Twitter, FB et al need but don't have. The fear is interesting. — Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 14, 2022
Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.
Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
Here's the weird stuff:
Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns roughly 5% of Twitter, tweeted that the bid significantly undervalues the company and that he will reject it.
Musk shot back in a tweet: "How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly? What are the Kingdom's views on journalistic freedom of speech?"
Saudi Arabia's richest man has a stake in Twitter? Bin Talal, recall, is the one that then-Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani declined to take the check from in the rubble of 9/11, citing his insulting linkage of 9/11 to Palestinian grievances.
Why would he oppose more money on a stagnant asset? And why would there be so much pushback from the news cartels, which would probably benefit from more free speech and passing their articles around by users?
Like Facebook being a DARPA project I assume most of these social media sites are run by the government.
;>)
My guess is bio weapons labs.
Last paragraph is interesting:
“Twitter shut down the president of the United States, which if it’s controlled by the government, while the elites take the profits, it means the government itself shut Trump down. What would be the implications of that, and how the heck could this scandal be corrected? It would show the extent of rot of the deep state that an entity so closely connected to the federal government could carry out that kind of coup. And that presents a Constitutional crisis. This kind of third-world behavior would have to be exposed by Musk — and Congress would need to stop it.”
Monica, how could he “stumble upon” it when it’s the main focus of his buyout offer and right out in the open for all to see?
As the largest shareholder, he could demand that they buy out his options at his offered price, and then the fur hits the fan.
Regardless of what the board does, the market has never seen this offer, in that a single person has the financial power to offer a premium offer, and he doesn't give a fat rat's ass that he makes or loses money on the deal.
They don't have enough "poison pills" to combat this situation.
They have no idea what his "plan B" really is, as it could be invest in parler or trump or start his own, or buy all the shares from individual investors {that will sell at a premium} or dump his shares and kill them in the market.
The board members have always been in the club, which means they are only in it to make money, and they have no idea how to deal with a guy that has the most money and doesn't give a shit about more money.
Their only solution is arkancide.
Musk has a food taster, but he better get two more and stay away from any parks.
Someone could build a duplicate Twitter for less than the amounts Elon Musk is talking about so it's not about price.
It then begs the question, "What crimes are Twitter hiding?"
What Musk seems to have stumbled upon is the argument that Twitter's servers may well be owned by various governments, maybe the Saudis, but almost certainly the U.S. government.I'd add that China's CCP would gain far more than the US and its Intel agencies, and have the money to support such and undertaking concurrent with its social credit system.
Elon Musk can probably expose how Twitter deliberately assisted in rigging the 2020 presidential election.
Its own servers might be shown to have been used to switch votes.
Murray 🇺🇸
@Rothbard1776
Don’t worry communists, if you lose Twitter you’ll still have:
CNN, MSNBC, the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, Politico, NPR, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, YouTube, Google, Facebook, the FBI, CIA, NSA, DOD, CDC, USA Today, Bloomberg, Time Magazine, Hollywood and academia.
12:22 PM · Apr 14, 2022
Between the buyout rebuff and the sudden “investigation,” Musk revealed that there are probably skeletons that have Twitter and FedGov fingerprints on them.
Elon Musk doesn’t “stumble” onto anything.
He knows exactly what he is doing. A person such as Musk doesn’t engage with with these levels of lawyers and the SEC without knowing what is happening.
I think the biggest risk to all social media, if Elon takes Twitter, is he will have access to the censoring algorithms they were using and publish them publicly for all the world to see the biases coded therein. Google, particularly, who always lies to Congress about their biased search algorithms will have big exposure.
Well, to be the FIRST, I think it is marvelous for an African American to have the honor of such wealth.
Musk, mischief-making? What kind of mischief is he up to?
Freedom to speak unapproved opinions. Can’t have that!