Elon Musk $44 Billion Twitter deal

Twitter has turned into a joke, a very expensive joke if you have money invested in it.

You have never been a fan of it anyway, even before he took over it.

Anyway, as I said earlier, he can step down, following his own poll result, but he still owns it, he’s not spent $44 Billion to hand control of it to someone else, he’ll still call the shots behind the scenes.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I’m sure that poll had nothing to do with him meeting his Saudi Arabian financial backers (second largest investors in Twitter) in Qatar last night…

Imagine being so overtly authoritarian that even the Saudis tell you to stand down.

On a totally unrelated note, the tweets by @TwitterSupport yesterday announcing a new policy banning linking to competing websites, have been deleted.

The policy itself has also been deleted from Twitter’s website.

Saw something about this on the news last night.

It also said that Musk had promised to increase free speech on Twitter, but then went on to ban someone who was posting the (publicly available) movements of Musks personal plane.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Saw something about this on the news last night.

It also said that Musk had promised to increase free speech on Twitter, but then went on to ban someone who was posting the (publicly available) movements of Musks personal plane.

There is definitely more free speech than there was before, previously, the woke left Twitter regime, came down heavy on people who believe, there is still only 2 genders, they also suspended folk who discussed vaccine injuries & slapped misinformation warnings on despite the fact, yes a fact, that many people have died or been seriously injured receiving the Covid vaccines.

Originally Posted by Mick

You have never been a fan of it anyway, even before he took over it.

I'm not a fan of any so called Social Media site, they are all as bad as one another. However, it was not the joke its now become, with policies being changed, and changed again, on a daily basis, I'm suprised any of the moderators still left know what the rules are each day.

The ban on external social media sites would have had the EU and other regulators on them so quick. No surprise that was reversed.

Originally Posted by Damien

The ban on external social media sites would have had the EU and other regulators on them so quick. No surprise that was reversed.

Was not reversed for that reason. No one give a toss what the corrupted EU think, given the current corruption scandal going on in their European Parliament & Qatar money and raids,

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Originally Posted by Paul

I'm not a fan of any so called Social Media site, they are all as bad as one another. However, it was not the joke its now become, with policies being changed, and changed again, on a daily basis, I'm suprised any of the moderators still left know what the rules are each day.

What do you expect when a company changed ownership, changes get made, some good, others not so good. Policies come & go, just like we change stuff on here, periodically.

Originally Posted by Mick

Was not reversed for that reason. No one give a toss what the corrupted EU think, given the current corruption scandal going on in their European Parliament & Qatar money and raids,

Microsoft are offering a 10-year COD deal to Nintendo and Sony to try and appease the EU and America's regulators to try and get their Activision deal though. Apple might be opening up the App Store because of EU pressure.

The biggest companies in the world do worry about the regulations of the areas they trade-in.

I am not sure if that's why Musk reversed it but just saying banning links to your competitions is sure to invite multiple anti-trust investigations.

Originally Posted by Damien

Microsoft are offering a 10-year COD deal to Nintendo and Sony to try and appease the EU and America's regulators to try and get their Activision deal though. Apple might be opening up the App Store because of EU pressure.

The biggest companies in the world do worry about the regulations of the areas they trade-in.

I am not sure if that's why Musk reversed it but just saying banning links to your competitions is sure to invite multiple anti-trust investigations.

He reversed it because of the backlash it caused upon its announcement.

Look, him heading Twitter was always going to be a temporary thing for him, he said that himself, he’s got six other companies to run, I think he knew how this poll was going to go and it’s way of using it to leave CEO position and say it’s the peoples choice, Tesla people want him back focusing on them. Running a social media giant isn’t his forte.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by Damien

Microsoft are offering a 10-year COD deal to Nintendo and Sony to try and appease the EU and America's regulators to try and get their Activision deal though. Apple might be opening up the App Store because of EU pressure.

The biggest companies in the world do worry about the regulations of the areas they trade-in.

I am not sure if that's why Musk reversed it but just saying banning links to your competitions is sure to invite multiple anti-trust investigations.

Yes, the governments of China, the US the EU and elsewhere have great power over the tech companies in their jurisdictions. Look no further than Apple having to use the USB-C connector in places of its lightning connector in the EU by December 2024 and the banning of Facebook in China.

[Ramrod]

Before Monday’s bombshell edition of the Twitter Files, internal communications suggested that the FBI manipulated Twitter’s content cops through former G-men embedded inside the company, appeals to a warped sense of patriotism, and letting woke staffers feel like characters on “Quantico.” The latest drop, released by author Michael Shellenberger, revealed that the FBI sweetened the deal with cold cash.

Twitter, which by all accounts was poorly run by the pre-Musk regime, lost a combined nearly $1.4 billion in 2020 and 2021. A bloated payroll, dubious business model, and a pampered workforce more interested in latte-fueled hot yoga than the bottom line were just some of the obvious reasons. But doing the FBI’s bidding and preventing Americans from knowing who they were about to elect as president in 2020 was one profitable little corner of the otherwise poorly performing platform.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-t...h-better-price

https://twitter.com/cscnme/status/16...Xo3rOAo7SBwOUA

Note here that "statutory right of reimbursement" means that it is a LAW that the government entity (FBI in this case) will provide reimbursement for fees associated with gathering the data requested. (18 U.S. Code § 2706)

SOP, not quid pro quo, not a smoking gun

You’d think a journalist would check this before building an entire narrative around it…

And to put the amount of money into context (around $3.5 million over 3 years, so just over a million dollars a year), Twitter’s turnover in 2020 was $3.72 billion, so the million dollars was around 0.0003% of turnover…

[Ramrod]

Apparently this went further than simply gathering data. The FBI/Democrats made requests to twitter to affect users accounts. That is, I believe, against the constitution.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Apparently this went further than simply gathering data. The FBI/Democrats made requests to twitter to affect users accounts. That is, I believe, against the constitution.

No wonder elmo is pissed, he bought twitter for a lot more than the fbi did

Something that is nagging away at me though is during the period this was going on the man in charge of the fbi was appointed by trump and donny controlled the executive branch of federal government

Originally Posted by Ramrod

Apparently this went further than simply gathering data. The FBI/Democrats made requests to twitter to affect users accounts. That is, I believe, against the constitution.

It sounds like the requests all these tech companies get. If it's for personal information or messages then it needs to be signed by a judge IIRC.

They all publish info about this yearly: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/...l#2021-jul-dec