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It takes a huge leap of logic to come to the conclusion that Musk cares about free speech for anyone other than himself. What he wants is speech without consequ

It takes a huge leap of logic to come to the conclusion that Musk cares about free speech for anyone other than himself. What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. His ability to speak is mostly unrestricted by any government power, and policy changes at Twitter will have no effect on what few restrictions he might encounter.

bko 4y ago
So why would he buy Twitter? No one thinks its going to be a good investment. It was kind of a prerequisite to have shareholders agree to the purchase. There's no conceivable reason for him to spend his time, effort and money in buying twitter apart from his stated purpose. He's going to lose money and time on it. And its a stretch to think his personal wealth or companies will benefit from Musk owning Twitter. So if no other plausible explanation as to why he wants to buy twitter, why not just take him at face value?
- I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
  Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter and becoming a techno-utopian cult figure This is like Kim Kardashian buying E! to make sure they can never cancel "Keeping up with the Kardashians". Musk wants to keep rolling his promises into the future in order to avoid people asking them about practical and tangible results in the present, as they have been underwhelming to say the least when compared to the financial bubble he managed to inflate.
  - jeffwask 4y ago
    "Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter " And funding armies of bots to say nice things about him and his companies... which is an interesting juxtaposition to any free speech agreement. In it's purest form banning bots, fake posts, etc. could be categorized as limiting speech.
  - memish 4y ago
    You think some tweets did that as opposed to transforming the car and space industries?
    - I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
      Every verb it's always about "-ing" with Musk supporters....never "-ed". You can shake Gates or Bezos hand and say to them that they transform-ed the software and online retail business respectively. Tesla cars accounts for like 1% of the total vehicles sales occourred globally in 2021. I remind you Musk has been at the helm of Tesla since 2002, that's 20 years. 1% in 20 years, that's hardly transform-ing either. The only word which makes sense when talking about Musk (if you want to cut him some serious slack) is "aspirational".
drstewart 4y ago
>What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. His ability to speak is mostly unrestricted by any government power ... and you're the one lecturing about flawed logic?

bko 4y ago

So why would he buy Twitter? No one thinks its going to be a good investment. It was kind of a prerequisite to have shareholders agree to the purchase. There's no conceivable reason for him to spend his time, effort and money in buying twitter apart from his stated purpose. He's going to lose money and time on it. And its a stretch to think his personal wealth or companies will benefit from Musk owning Twitter. So if no other plausible explanation as to why he wants to buy twitter, why not just take him at face value?

I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter and becoming a techno-utopian cult figure This is like Kim Kardashian buying E! to make sure they can never cancel "Keeping up with the Kardashians". Musk wants to keep rolling his promises into the future in order to avoid people asking them about practical and tangible results in the present, as they have been underwhelming to say the least when compared to the financial bubble he managed to inflate.
- jeffwask 4y ago
  "Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter " And funding armies of bots to say nice things about him and his companies... which is an interesting juxtaposition to any free speech agreement. In it's purest form banning bots, fake posts, etc. could be categorized as limiting speech.
- memish 4y ago
  You think some tweets did that as opposed to transforming the car and space industries?
  - I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
    Every verb it's always about "-ing" with Musk supporters....never "-ed". You can shake Gates or Bezos hand and say to them that they transform-ed the software and online retail business respectively. Tesla cars accounts for like 1% of the total vehicles sales occourred globally in 2021. I remind you Musk has been at the helm of Tesla since 2002, that's 20 years. 1% in 20 years, that's hardly transform-ing either. The only word which makes sense when talking about Musk (if you want to cut him some serious slack) is "aspirational".

drstewart 4y ago

>What he wants is speech without consequences for himself. His ability to speak is mostly unrestricted by any government power ... and you're the one lecturing about flawed logic?