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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by musingsole on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:19PM (#31029036)
How? The laws absolutely allow for hostile takeovers. If Twitter gets to determine what to censor because it's a corporation, well, they get to get bought like one too.
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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by systemvoltage on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:56PM (#31029660)
The mental gymnastics going on in this thread is crazy.

Let's separate two concerns:

1) Belief system – whether you philosophically support Elon's take over or not

2) Objective facts, corporate finance and legal aspects of what's going on

All I can see in this thread is 1) masquerading as 2).

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by TMWNN on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:37PM (#31031345)
>All I can see in this thread is 1) masquerading as 2).

Indeed. One would have hoped that Hacker News would be immune from Reddit/Twitter-style "Anything I don't like is illegal/unconstitutional", but apparently not.

"Someone buying up shares of a company before he announces a hostile takeover is inside information and thus illegal!" Good grief.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by lcrmorin on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:49AM (#31039597)
Depends if the offer is made in good faith. If not, this would really look like market manipulation.
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