Elon Musk buying Twitter exposes the great divide

Bretrick

Bretrick

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How does spending $44 billion on a social network site benefit mankind?
I find it disgraceful that so much money is controlled by so few people.
$44 billion to fritter away?
An estimated 700 million people live on less than $2 a day and Musk spends $44 billion on a social platform?
Sickening in the extreme.
What are your thoughts?
 

Twitter is the same 800 or so losers living in their parents' basements, projecting and feeding off each other's stupidity.

And Facebook is the one place you can meet everyone you've purposely avoided your entire life.
 
I can see the appeal of Twitter if there are celebrities you want to follow or if you worship your political leaders and want to keep up with them, but not fitting into either of those categories, I have no use for it. I have no interest in Elon Musk other than his engineering projects.
 
Tommy said:
Off the top of my head:
1. Envy is a terrible personal trait.
2. It isn't for me to judge what others do with their possessions.
3. Directly and indirectly Musk's enterprises create millions of jobs for people world-wide.
4. How does something like twitter (never used it) benefit mankind?
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Great question. People from all over the world share info on Twitter. Posts have been limited in length. It is controversial because Musk wants the platform free of oversight. Anything goes. It can become a source of misinformation. How can you run a peaceful world with people posting lies and promoting them?
 
Paco Dennis said:
I think we are going to have greater problems with these type of big mergers. Anti-trust has given way to Citizens United where the corporation is no longer scrutinized for it's immediate benefit for society. We are beginning to have less freedom of choice. $$$$$$$ and POWER become the guiding forces.
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I see your point but .... it is still his money. Do you want someone telling you what to spend your money on ?
 
rgp said:
I see your point but .... it is still his money. Do you want someone telling you what to spend your money on ?
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Everyday people are after my money. Freedom means spending money freely? For me it means people have a right to chose to have health care, employment, affordable necessities, a since of belonging in this world. As it is going, those freedoms are diminishing.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Everyday people are after my money. Freedom means spending money freely? For me it means people have a right to chose to have health care, employment, affordable necessities, a since of belonging in this world. As it is going, those freedoms are diminishing.
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That freedom diminishes even more when we start complaining how anyone spends their money. Worse yet ... trying to redirect it.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Great question. People from all over the world share info on Twitter.posts have been limited in length. It is controversial because Musk wants the platform free of oversight. Anything goes. It can become a source of misinformation. How can you run a peaceful world with people posting lies and promoting them?
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Actually i read he's walked back the 'anything goes', so it will be interesting to see what is allowed, what will be restricted. Who will be arbiter of 'acceptable' and if there'll be any rational consistency in what is 'acceptable' and what not.
 
Paco Dennis said:
How can you run a peaceful world with people posting lies and promoting them?
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You can't.....as we're seeing everyday with the insurrection, the harm and threats against our elected congress people and their families and armed vigilantes at voting drop off boxes, the ongoing trials and investigations that cost taxpayers and on and on.....people need to wake up.
 
feywon said:
Actually i read he's walked back the 'anything goes', so it will be interesting to see what is allowed, what will be restricted. Who will be arbiter of 'acceptable' and if there'll be any rational consistency in what is 'acceptable' and what not.
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Twitter has always had censorship. Always. I’m hopeful that now there will be more than one point of view allowed.
 
CarolfromTX said:
Twitter has always had censorship. Always. I’m hopeful that now there will be more than one point of view allowed.
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All social media can (as private business entities) and should have some 'rules'. If not there would be even more hate speech, name calling and verbal brawls than there is already.

i've found people of all persuasions usually complain only when they (and those who think like them) are held to the rules. i have been known (and unpopular for it) to call out even my fellow 'liberals', 'open-minded' people for their narrow perspectives on what rules should be enforced and how. It is a human thing most of us succumb to feeling freedom of speech should only apply to our POV.

The one absolute rule i think all social media should have is 'no incitement to violence'. While some postings have been helpful afterwards in convicting people of actual violence, or at least adding to the understanding of what motivates certain acts, there have been few cases where violence was prevented due to some over-the-top posting being reported to authorities.
 
Pepper said:
That's what he says, let's see what he does.
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i really think IRS Auditors should take extra care examining the returns of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg. Both have had large losses reported in news recently, perhaps laying groundwork in case this administration, perhaps post mid-terms, returns to taxing them more appropriately.

Supposedly, Musk has been losing more $$ per day for many months (some $270 million a day) then most of us could spend (spend not give--i could if i had it easily give away a great deal to my community/charities/and individuals and much of it might not be tax deductible)in a lifetime, yet no signs he's suffering or even discomforted.

i have no problem with people being ridiculously wealthy--as long as they pay their workers/staff salaries that reflect the value of their work, AND they pay their fair share of taxes, local as well as federal. i don't think they should be either demonized or revered simply for being wealthy, especially since many of the wealthiest inherit it (there's no consensus of facts if Musk did). But they need to realize their continued wealth depends in great part on their workers and consumers---they need to respect both.
 
CarolfromTX said:
I think it’s great! Twitter existed before Elon bought it. Was it sickening then? The MSM hates it so it must be a good thing. 😜😂😂
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"MSM" that means what, Methylsulfonylmethane? Why would Methylsulfonylmethane hate Twitter?

But yea, Twitter was sickening before they started enforcing their Terms of Service, which some bonehead political types ignored because they saw themselves as entitled....and subsequently got their accounts suspended. Stupid is as stupid does.
Watch what Musk does, Twitter will turn into a sewer pit like Parler.

Kanye West and Elon Musk each buying a social media platform at the same time?... no coincidence there as those of thier ideological bent are redoubling efforts to dominate public discourse.
 

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