if his offer is not fruitful he WILL try to kill the brand. He can afford to piss away 3 billion buckeroos.
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter, take it private
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During the failed leftist campaign to deplatform Joe Rogan — remember that? — the real lesson from that tawdry episode was that the central 'religious' belief of the American left now is censorship.
Silencing, deplatforming and otherwise preventing their adversaries from being heard is their paramount goal, their primary weapon.
For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of "hate speech” to mean "views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis.
For that reason, it is now common to hear DEMOCRATS assert, falsely, that free speech does not protect “hate speech."
Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.
Leftists are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful.
That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.
The unprecedented censorship imposed in the West in the name of the war in Ukraine, a series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this war — have, in rapid succession, convinced not just lefties but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship.
They have somehow inverted history so that they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists, tyrants and authoritarians — even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship as a key means for maintaining power — but instead believe that it is free speech, free discourse, and free thought that are the instruments of repression.
Few events have revealed this twisted framework as vividly as the news that the world's richest African American has offered to buy Twitter and take it private.
The fact that the world's most successful African American has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed and clearly ideological censorship regime does not mean he is earnest in his intention to restore free speech to the platform, but the mere possibility that he does intend to do so has sent censorship-dependent leftists into spasms of panic and hysteria.
Before the morning was over, some were even comparing the world's most successful African American's offer to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/elon-musks-threat-to-restore-free
Silencing, deplatforming and otherwise preventing their adversaries from being heard is their paramount goal, their primary weapon.
For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of "hate speech” to mean "views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis.
For that reason, it is now common to hear DEMOCRATS assert, falsely, that free speech does not protect “hate speech."
Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.
Leftists are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful.
That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.
The unprecedented censorship imposed in the West in the name of the war in Ukraine, a series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this war — have, in rapid succession, convinced not just lefties but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship.
They have somehow inverted history so that they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists, tyrants and authoritarians — even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship as a key means for maintaining power — but instead believe that it is free speech, free discourse, and free thought that are the instruments of repression.
Few events have revealed this twisted framework as vividly as the news that the world's richest African American has offered to buy Twitter and take it private.
The fact that the world's most successful African American has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed and clearly ideological censorship regime does not mean he is earnest in his intention to restore free speech to the platform, but the mere possibility that he does intend to do so has sent censorship-dependent leftists into spasms of panic and hysteria.
Before the morning was over, some were even comparing the world's most successful African American's offer to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/elon-musks-threat-to-restore-free
Hateful, violent and dangerous misinformation tweets are allowed.
He is implying that all the left wing loonies will leave and the stock will drop. None of those broke ass idiots put a dime into it or any stock to to begin with. Typical left wing blustering.
Nope. It will become another Stormfront, just like JPP.
It already is. Just at a democrat scale. Most racist mother fuckers on the planet.
Only a racist would find that amusing.
this is what musk faces in a hostile takeover.
the left could just go elsewhere.
they do not care for free speech.
If Musk succeeds in his plan to take over Twitter the stock will disappear. It will no longer trade at any price.
Go ahead and argue with me and claim otherwise. I dare you.
cawacko
Well-known member
I'll wonder a little off topic here but curious your thoughts. We've heard people state that if someone doesn't like how Twitter monitors content then create your own platform. IF this were to go through do you think someone else would try and create a Twitter Part 2? (assuming a bunch of people leave Twitter) In theory it's easy to say that but with the network effects etc. it's not so easy (not impossible but not easy) to create a new platform with the same reach, number of users etc. Where would people turn to do you think?
signalmankenneth
Verified User
its never easy to know what Muck is really up to but I kinda think he intends to kill Twitter. There is no fixing it as the left will abandon it if it goes free speech.
did you see his tweet? "more moderation" keeps democracy alive..
I swear that's right out of Animal Farm -Orwellian logic