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Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, so it can be ‘transformed as private company’
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Posted on 04/14/2022 3:48:02 AM PDT by chuckee

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, saying the social media company needs to be transformed privately.

“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk wrote in a letter sent to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor and disclosed in a securities filing...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Reference
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; freespeech; robertreich; twitter
Elon on his way to free speechifyin' the social media world
1 posted on 04/14/2022 3:48:02 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee

Hope he buys Facebook.


2 posted on 04/14/2022 3:51:39 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: chuckee

Hope he buys Facebook.


3 posted on 04/14/2022 3:51:39 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: chuckee

In Twitter prison? No problem. Just buy the company,.


4 posted on 04/14/2022 3:51:59 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Ell, it is a solution.


5 posted on 04/14/2022 4:18:52 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: chuckee

Elon would be wasting his money. The rot goes all the way from the top down to the janitors.

All the worker bees would sabotage the platform. Imagine if you had a website and your webmaster screws with it so you can’t get emails or do business, etc.


6 posted on 04/14/2022 7:33:58 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: JohnnyP

Every single staff problem is fixable. It is just a matter of wil, money, and time. If I bought a thoroughly corrupt business, I would fire every single person, hire a CEO in my image, and rebuild the entire organization from the top down. I would not even retain the little old lady who runs the cafeteria or the groundskeepers. Everyone would be let go and have to reapply. The vast majority would not be rehired.

Musk doesn’t need the money. He can shut down Twitter cold for the duration necessary for a complete rebuild. He wouldn’t do that because he is such a smart businessman. I am just saying financially, he could afford to.


7 posted on 04/14/2022 10:21:41 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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