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Why would he want Twitter private?
by chinathrow 5y ago
Why would he want Twitter private?
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dmschulman 5y agoFree speech
- trompetenaccoun 5y agoHaha. The outraged complaints by those who've been repeating that line for years claiming "Twitter is a private company, they can ban who they like" would be epic. Also I bet they would call to regulate or even nationalize social media platforms as soon as companies like Twitter switch to a more balanced moderation approach and don't aid in amplifying certain politics.
- HereIGoAgain 5y agoOh they already are even before the (potential) fact. "Their right" has suddenly become "NO, NOT LIKE THAT!" overnight. lol
- koolba 5y agoSame reason Bezos owns the Washing ton Post. If you don’t care about directly making money, you can treat the platform as a way to promote or reject whatever messaging you want to millions of users. If it’s a public company, it’d be subject to the will of the shareholders and have other corporate responsibilities. If it’s private, it can do whatever he wants it.
- discardedrefuse 5y agoA private corporation is bad because its owner can use it to promote their own personal views. OTOH, a publicly traded corporation is also bad because because, motivated solely by growth, it will eventually need to engage in anti-societal behavior (dangerous algorithms, dark patterns, lobbying, fines as cost-of-doing-business, union-busting, etc). [Is this late-stage capitalism?](butterfly_meme.jpg) Where do we even go from here?
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoI think the best option is to back the right oligarch or, if one can't find an acceptable one, become a better oligarch.
- eric_cc 5y agoBlue Sky
- VirusNewbie 5y ago> OTOH, a publicly traded corporation is also bad because because, motivated solely by growth, There is nothing that says a public company must only be motivated by growth. Tesla's mission statement doesn't say anything of the sort and has done things that don't fulfill the idea of growth or profit at all costs. Now you might argue that institutional investors don't care about that since there's an indirection between actual shareholders, but that's a related but different issue.
- pjc50 5y agoMan with personal space programme wants personal shitposting platform?
- adolph 5y agoSeems a small price to pay
- colinmhayes 5y agoHe already has a personal shitpsoting platform.
- bigtex 5y agoTO control the negative information about Tesla, Space X, etc.