Yeah from what I understand Twitter tends to filter certain content. I've got mixed feelings about free speech, there's a balance I feel like we need to have... it's like when someone stands in the middle of a town square with a megaphone they can preach whatever they like to passerby's however... Twitter is such a massive platform anyone can spew even inaccurate information and the risk is that people will follow what is said blindly without fact checking.
Elon Musk Buys 9.2% Stake in Twitter
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Most would end up needing the charities if they did donate
People can also volunteer their time by doing tasks like asking people to donate to a charity like the food bank.
Twitter definitely has a liberal bias and likes banning conservative users. It’s the breeding ground for the joke about blue haired feminists.
Though most free speech advocates actually just want freedom of their speech and want to ban others for not being their echo chamber. That’s why you have a conservative competitor called Gab, and they ban liberal users.
People also think freedom of speech means freedom of consequence and criticism. They want to stand on a soapbox and say whatever they want about people, and everyone’s supposed to shut up and clap.
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We have no idea what Elon will do once he fully owns Twitter. Making it free speech might be for all the wrong reasons.
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Oh yeah, they are going to hard shut him out.
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Not sure if you remember but there was a group of boys that got stuck in an underground cave in some East Asian country. People were flying from all over the world to help out. Musk said he was going to build some sort of mini-submarine (I think) but I don't think the rescuers liked that idea. Musk called one of them a paedo and got sued for it.
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Well Elon Musk owns twitter now, read form VGC:
Elon Musk, has agreed to acquire Twitter in a deal valued at approximately $44 billion.
Twitter announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO, who already held a nine percent stake in the social media platform.
The deal values each share of Twitter common at $54.20, representing a 38 percent premium on its closing stock price on April 1, which was the last trading day before Musk disclosed his existing stake in company.
Once the deal is complete, Twitter will become a privately held company.
“Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world,” said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important.”
He commented: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.
Elon Musk, has agreed to acquire Twitter in a deal valued at approximately $44 billion.
Twitter announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO, who already held a nine percent stake in the social media platform.
The deal values each share of Twitter common at $54.20, representing a 38 percent premium on its closing stock price on April 1, which was the last trading day before Musk disclosed his existing stake in company.
Once the deal is complete, Twitter will become a privately held company.
“Twitter has a purpose and relevance that impacts the entire world,” said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. “Deeply proud of our teams and inspired by the work that has never been more important.”
He commented: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
“I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.
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Rather sickening....
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$44 billion is a lot of money. The sales tax and income tax bill for $44 billion would be a lot of money.
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As long as the bad stuff is still filtered.
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I've heard time and time again that we want a representative republic and not a true democracy so all this feels like buzzwords.
Trump can afford his own social media site tbh.
It takes money to make money. But all that real tax stuff is incredibly convoluted unless it's your job to pay attention to it.