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About $2billion is owned by the Saudi prince with a penchant for murdering journalists. So... maybe?

• sschueller 4y ago
  And immunity as we just learned in another HN post.
  • eternalban 4y ago
    You and the OP have got the wrong prince. https://www.arabianbusiness.com/public/images/2014/09/03/alwaleed_dorsey.jpg https://www.arabianbusiness.com/public/images/2014/09/03/alw... https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-alwaleed-supports-dorsey-for-twitter-ceo-2015-6?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/prince-alwaleed-supports-dor... This prince ran afoul of the prince you are thinking off and spent some time in a hotel in KSA pondering what is more important: his health or his money. And let history record he was sensibly more concerned with his health. https://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/prince-alwaleed-finally-released-from-hotel-arrest https://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/prince-alwaleed-finally-rel...
• jeffbee 4y ago
  It's obvious why the despots of Arabia and Russia—both pals with Musk—would prefer if Twitter disappeared. Unlike Mastodon, Twitter is capable of hosting a revolution. Putin and MBS and the rest of them know they can pwn or DoS any distributed, federated piece of crap, and they can't successfully do that to Twitter.
  • ricardo81 4y ago
    Hopefully the whale chose to be in the 'hardcore' crowd.
  • partiallypro 4y ago
    What are you talking about? Iran's revolution is in part unfolding because of Twitter and Saudi Arabia wants nothing more than for that regime to fall.