Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by asguy on Friday April 15, 2022 @04:08PM (#31045169)

Because depending on how you look at it, Twitter suspending Trump (and Babylon Bee et cetera) was part of the motivation for Musk to buy Twitter in the first place.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by themitigating on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:23PM (#31056212)

How do you know that was his motivation?

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by asguy on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:48AM (#31058587)

Because Elon's been pushing the topic of Twitter and freedom of speech (or the lack thereof) for... a quite a while now.

He even ran the (now famous) poll: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by s5300 on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:37PM (#31047289)

I don’t think Elon has or ever has had any affinity for Trump. He left his advisor (or something of that nature) spot in the administration quite early on for a reason.

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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by asguy on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:50AM (#31058601)

I don't think he cares specifically about Trump, but I do think he cares about Trump being banned from the platform.

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