Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Zigurd on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:54AM (#31025659)

What the right calls "free speech" has been tried by several investor-backed social media startups. In every case it has turned into a sewer of racism, misogyny, death threats, and non-monetizable yuckkyiness.

Nobody has an answer to that problem, yet. If there is no answer, turning Twitter into a desolation for trolls will not help Twitter.

These trolls want to go back to Twitter to torment everyone who rejected them. Good luck creating shareholder value that way.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by basisword on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#31025846)

I guess the solution would be tying your identify to your account. If you do something illegal then you can be held accountable. The problem is, how many of twitters users would vanish if they suddenly needed to be identifiable?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by QuadmasterXLII on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:55AM (#31026306)

I assume you don’t mean ‘you can have free speech absolutism by making it easier to have real life consequences for saying the wrong thing’

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by themitigating on Thursday April 14, 2022 @08:50AM (#31026252)

Failure of a business can still occur with legal speech, like racism. How would tying your identity to an account help in that situation?

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by basisword on Thursday April 14, 2022 @09:18AM (#31026588)

Depends on your jurisdiction. Racist is certainly not legal in the UK and people have been prosecuted for tweeting racist messages.

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