has musk had enough?

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    He has been posting questions of what can be done about twitter.


    https://www.reuters.com/techno…stake-twitter-2022-04-04/


    Musk takes 9% stake in Twitter to become top shareholder


    April 4 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) top boss Elon Musk revealed a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) on Monday, likely making him the biggest shareholder in the micro-blogging site and triggering a 23% rise in its shares.


    Musk's move comes close on the heels of his tweet that he was giving a "serious thought" to building a new social media platform, while questioning Twitter's commitment to free speech.


    A filing showed that Musk owns 73.5 million Twitter shares, valuing his passive stake in the company at up to $2.9 billion based on the stock's Friday close. The shares are held by the Elon Musk Revocable Trust, of which he is the sole trustee.


    A prolific Twitter user, Musk has over 80 million followers since joining the site in 2009 and has used the platform to make several announcements, including teasing a go-private deal for Tesla that landed him in regulatory scrutiny.


    Of late, however, he has been critical of the social media platform and its policies, saying the company is undermining democracy by failing to adhere to free-speech principles. read more


    "We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives wrote in a note.


    Musk has been selling his stake in Tesla since November, when he said he would offload 10% of his holding in the electric-car maker. He has already sold $16.4 billion worth of shares since then.


    Twitter was the target of activist investor Elliott Management Corp in 2020, when the hedge fund argued its then-boss and co-founder, Jack Dorsey, was paying too little attention to Twitter while also running Square.


    Dorsey stepped down as CEO and chairman in November last year, but continues to own a 2.25% stake in the company that makes him the sixth biggest shareholder, according to Refinitiv data.


    Meanwhile, Musk and Dorsey have found some common ground in dismissing the so-called Web3, a vague term for a utopian version of the internet that is decentralized. read more


    Twitter was not immediately available for comment.

    This could be big. I remember when he was musing about starting his own SM outlet and one of the first responses was "why not just buy twiiter?" I was actually on twitter this morning and considered just cancelling. The whole thing is ten monkey in a five pound bag of wokeness. Their distrobution of their own community standards is an out in the open joke. They don't even care that everyone can see it. Counter a lefty lalal land comment and you will be pounced upon. Attempt to defend yourself and you WILL be censored.


    Meanwhile, over a fagbook... I follow a page called "Flint in the Past" a page where people post old pictures and talk about the glory days of Flint, Mi... Some one posted this article...


    https://lithub.com/no-place-yo…o-on-writing-about-flint/


    The resulting discussion was the typical blame game of Flint's ultimate downfall.. Everything from racism to greedy GM and even Ronald Reagan was sited... My response...


    Of course they do. And that has little to do with my point. Whatever you think of current mainstream social media, it's wildly successful. Wildly successful *while* censoring non corporate-approved content.


    Question is: Can Elon allow the Q-Anoners and all manner of cultists to do their thing without their currently profitable users going elsewhere? And without opening the company up to all manner of legal liability? Not saying he can't do it, but it's not going to be as simple as just letting people post whatever they want. There are consequences to that. It works on gg's forums, but we're talking about hundreds of millions of trolls here, not just a couple hundred.

    Section 230 says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" (47 U.S.C. § 230). In other words, online intermediaries that host or republish speech are protected against a range of laws that might otherwise be used to hold them legally responsible for what others say and do. The protected intermediaries include not only regular Internet Service Providers (ISPs), but also a range of "interactive computer service providers," including basically any online service that publishes third-party content. Though there are important exceptions for certain criminal and intellectual property-based claims, CDA 230 creates a broad protection that has allowed innovation and free speech online to flourish.

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    The group that wants to win will always beat the group that wants to be left alone.

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    The group that wants to win will always beat the group that wants to be left alone.

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    this is so great. Tim is so great too. He makes great points and he's pretty fair, even regarding his own content demonistized.

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    You'd think the cops would eventually catch on...

    probably another cuntish canadian that's doing it.

    https://www.canadajournal.net/…e-game-rivals-26722-2015/


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    A 17-year-old hacker from British Columbia, Canada, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 23 charges of extortion, public mischief, false police reports, and criminal harassment.

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