Elon Just Bought Twitter
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I don't know what to think.
On the one hand, this might be good for free speech. Remains to be seen what he does with it but he can't be worse than the people that currently run it.
On the other hand, this seems like a giant waste of money. Social media giants have peaked. Also, on a more general level, once companies get sold their value goes downhill. The only way forward is down, value-wise.
Leftist governments all over the world are also probably going to start suing him non-stop.
We'll see what happens, I guess.
Good luck, crazy, rich shitposter :D
Not sure about all social media in general but the giants are stagnant, old and boring. When was the last time Facebook or Twitter offered something new? It's only a matter of time before they end up being replaced by something new.
Well, if Elon is smart, he will do something fun with Twitter.
Something new and even worse than those two?
The dude has plenty of money and is doing this for shits. Don't concern yourself with him not making a return on his investment, the lulz he's experiencing right now are worth it to him alone.
And if you mean it's a waste of money in the "he could be giving it to charity" sense... I hope I don't have to explain why that's so dumb.
Nah, I'm done with charity. They've pretty much all been subverted by leftist grifters and the constant virtue-signalling everywhere is getting on my balls.
I was more thinking along the lines of that money could have been invested more wisely to benefit .... dunno ... political balance, freedom of speech, whatever.
I can't say I agree. How would you spend $43 billion to benefit free speech?
Twitter is the cheapest way to get a big platform with name recognition that people of all walks of life actually use. If you bring it back to free speech, not only have you made a large platform free speech focused, but if it is a successful endeavor and benefits the platform financially (as it surely will), you'll set a path forward for other companies.
Right now companies clearly believe that going woke is the only path to success. A lot of this is big investors who invest based on how woke a company is. We need to show that that can be changed.
He could pull a Soros and buy the actual real-world government from the local level up.
I think Musk is counting on governments censoring him because he's going to then sell his starlink as a means around the government censorship. Twitter is the program to get people in the door with starlink.