Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[WestCoast]

Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter will now be a privately held company when the process is finished.

Will Musk make Twitter a haven for free speech? Will Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?


https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-to-buy-twitter-for-44-billion-185306641.html

[Manny]

Will Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

He should. If he intends to do what he claims.

It's a lot of money to spend on a platform full of angry lefties though.

[WestCoast]

Will Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

He should. If he intends to do what he claims.

It's a lot of money to spend on a platform full of angry lefties though.

IMO it would have been better if Musk could have bought CNN from Discovery. CNN was only going for about $5 billion or so and changing that over to a more politically middle of the road news source would have sent more lefties into a meltdown.

[Bodine]

Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter will now be a privately held company when the process is finished.

Will Musk make Twitter a haven for free speech? Will Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-to-buy-twitter-for-44-billion-185306641.html

Free speech in the US? I can barely remember the US being a haven of 'free speech'! It must've been at a time when looting and property destruction were still a crime. They're almost an alien concept nowadays.

[AJ]

Elon Musk is in the process of buying Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter will now be a privately held company when the process is finished.

Will Musk make Twitter a haven for free speech? Will Musk allow Donald Trump back on Twitter?

https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/elon-musk-to-buy-twitter-for-44-billion-185306641.html

Free speech in the US? I can barely remember the US being a haven of 'free speech'! It must've been at a time when looting and property destruction were still a crime. They're almost an alien concept nowadays.

While I generally agree with this...

There were 970 arrests made regarding the Portland riots  that included violently taking over a.section.of the city, attacking a police.station, arson, extortion of local.businesses , looting  etc. That lasted for a looong time.

I'm not convinced any.of the actually peaceful.protestors were arrested.
As a lot of unpeaceful.ones were not.
We had  congressmen  setting up fundraising for bail for those arrested and calling for the police.to be defunded


Meanwhile in   Russatopia, 6,000 were.arrested for peacefully.protesting a conflict  who many possibly had relatives in the effected region, or  where fined for daring to use the term war.
In a week or less.

You had the president state there needed to ge a cleansing.
A mass firing of intelligence officers.
 Then more strict regulations quickly pushed thru regarding press verbiage,and fines for even local.businesses who might use the wrong unapporoved by the state   descriptive verbiage.

Public
Dissenters have an unusual high risk.of poisoning themselves

Seems a level of contrastbto.me,
but hey there has to be some line drawn between free speech and shouting fire in a theater

[AvHdB]

Well for better or worse E. Musk owns Twitter. I am amused at the price 50 plus $4.20 and some are worried about a president who perhaps has used.

Time will tell.

[Markje]

Musk wants out of the deal, butvtwitter sues ..... 

[andrewfi]

AJ, words have meanings, and you are confusing yourself and others by not knowing the meaning of words you are using.

While I do not know of the specific incident to which you referred, I di know a little about what happens during and after unauthprised demonstrations in Russia.

So, it is very, very unlikely that thousands of people were 'arrested'. Being arrested is a specific term that is part of a process during which a potential offender is interviewed, may be charged with an offence and as a result face a criminal court. That seems to be what happened, to some degree, during the period of lawlessness in parts of the United States referred to above.

The people in Russia will have been detained. They will have had to prodicce their identity documents and their presence at an unauthorized demonstration will have been recorded. Being detained is an administrative process that does not usually lead to arrest - although a few people might have been arrested following their detention.

Now that you know the difference between arrest and detention, I am sure that you will agree that the examples you confused yourself with are, in fact, different.

Of course, you are free to argue that such detentions are not a good thing (notwithstanding the reality that similar administrative processes are commonplace around the world - including the land of the Free). I might even find myself in some agreement with you. The good thing is that you can now make an argument based upon fact rather than misunderstanding.

 

[andrewfi]

Musk wants out of the deal, butvtwitter sues ..... 

I wonder whether Musk's intent was not to own the company but rather to impose some degree of change upon it. I have a funny idea that in the near future Twitter, under new ownership or not, will announce a crackdown on 'bots and fake accounts.

[Markje]

Musk wants out of the deal, butvtwitter sues ..... 

I wonder whether Musk's intent was not to own the company but rather to impose some degree of change upon it. I have a funny idea that in the near future Twitter, under new ownership or not, will announce a crackdown on 'bots and fake accounts.

I think musks idea was to buy,improve(how?) And then sell it. Now that tesla was tanking stock he mightve thought his idea too expensive