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Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by jpcfl on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:15PM (#31048598)
He is a futurist, and believes that without free speech, human kind is doomed.

I agree.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by bmlzootown on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:42PM (#31048822)
The important question is this -- why does he believe those things?

This is the same man that at one point tried to say that he was the founder of Tesla.

Saying things that I agree with doesn't mean that I should inherently be in favor of said person doing X, Y, or Z.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by jpcfl on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:42PM (#31055447)
> why does he believe those things?

Just look at the conditions in any society without free speech and you'll find your answer.

More abstractly, free speech is required for free thought. Without free thought, we're all thought prisoners to whomever controls the information we received. Musk's contention with Twitter is that they have been positioning themselves as that entity.

Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dtjb on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:08AM (#31049382)
Does free speech require a company to give me a megaphone to their private platform and users? Does twitter not have a right to exercise their speech?
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by tonguez on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:23AM (#31049447)
Are you capable of talking without regurgitating propaganda buzzwords like megaphone?
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by dtjb on Saturday April 16, 2022 @12:28AM (#31049478)
I'm not aware of that term being propogandist. Maybe I heard it somewhere, definitely possible. Do you object to the image? It seems perfectly fitting which is why I used the word.
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by krainboltgreene on Friday April 15, 2022 @10:49PM (#31048873)
He has actively suppressed the speech of others.
Re:Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to... by jpcfl on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:57PM (#31057172)
One, Elon Musk is not a social media platform.

And two, how?