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Buy, Elon, buy: Musk's renewed interest
in Twitter could be a win for free speech

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Posted By: Moritz55, 10/10/2022 1:25:06 PM

The news that Elon Musk wants to go forward with the purchase of Twitter has led to a virtual panic among media, political and academic figures worried that free speech could shortly break out on the social media platform. Former Politico magazine editor Garrett Graff summed up the collective vapors succinctly: “Be afraid, be actually afraid.” I sincerely hope so. While Musk had in recent months wavered on his purchase, he said last week that he wants to move forward with a $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform. On Thursday, the judge presiding over Twitter's lawsuit against Musk for backing out of the original

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Rama41 10/10/2022 1:37:23 PM (No. 1300675)
I don't know what the delay is. If Elon's short of cash, I could lend him $10.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: felixcat 10/11/2022 8:24:37 AM (No. 1301182)
Weren't you just the other day complaining that Trump's Truth Social is an echo chamber for Trump? So go ahead and buy Twitter and it will also be an echo chamber for Elon. Whatever Elon.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 10/11/2022 8:36:22 AM (No. 1301197)
As long as Elon goes after the bot companies in particular people like Chris Bouzy, who has been a particularly nasty manipulator of Twitter, then Im all for Elon buying it up,echo chamber or not. Chris Bouzy should be pinned to the wall by the FCC and the IRS for what he has done to mass communication.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Zigrid 10/11/2022 11:10:59 AM (No. 1301404)
Go...Elon...go!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: swarfer 10/11/2022 12:59:54 PM (No. 1301518)
No matter what, Twitter will be better for everyone, not just left wing techies and their political cohorts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Strike3 10/11/2022 5:22:14 PM (No. 1301751)
Elon should wait a while. Twitter will soon be selling for pennies on the dollar, just like Fakebook is going to be.
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