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If Musk is willing to give 43 billion to get Trump and other liars on Twitter

independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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nypost.com

Why Trump says he won't return to Twitter if Elon Musk buys it

Elon Musk’s potential takeover of Twitter has Donald Trump supporters salivating over the potential reinstatement of the ex-president’s account.
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I don't think Musk wants anything from the government. I think his ass is chapped because Twitter ****ed with him.

btw, for someone who has over $250 billion, spending $43 billion is like me buying a brand new car.
 
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If Mr. M. is able to get President Trump back on Twitter, he will be remembered as a true champion of freedom of speech.

(Although I don't know why Mr. Trump would want to help Twitter by going back on and getting millions of people to go to Twitter. To blank with Twitter! Never been there, but hear tell a lot of bots (whatever they are) give a false impression of Twitter's influence.
 
Maybe he'll ban senile old farts. Even if they're presidents. Haha.
 
independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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First I would change your premise:

It isn't always (likely almost never) about Trump to anyone but the majority of this board and the MSM.
 
independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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Musk recognizes that Twitter has been used to censor voices it doesn't agree with and that's not a good thing.
Do you think it's a good thing?
 
Grandpappy said:
Maybe he'll ban senile old farts. Even if they're presidents. Haha.
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I am a computer illiterate 85-year-old, so I acknowledge that I am in no position to judge anyone else, but I doubt that "senile old" man you are referring to even knows how to tweet.
 
independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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Hard to tell, but there are several possibilities:

Increased public interest in him and thereby in his other business ventures. That could lead to greater investments in those ventures.

Hopefully getting support from the expected change of government in the upcoming election, and even in the 2024 election, which would in turn allow him to get permits for expansion of SpaceX holdings (like a new launch pad) among other things.

Just having fun messing around with Twitter because he dislikes their entitled SJW mentality.

Perhaps massive profits when he sells his shares of stock.

I'm sure people can come up with other reasons.

The fact he is screwing with Twitter amuses me greatly.
 
bubbabgone said:
Musk recognizes that Twitter has been used to censor voices it doesn't agree with and that's not a good thing.
Do you think it's a good thing?
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This is right wing spin, that's not what is happening.

There are, literally, hundreds of millions of conservatives on Twitter.
 
Captain Adverse said:
Perhaps massive profits when he sells his shares of stock.
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This seems to be the way it is shaping up. A very brazen market manipulation for pump and dump. Quite frankly, he should probably be arrested for it if it turns out the way I think it will.
 
Deuce said:
This seems to be the way it is shaping up. A very brazen market manipulation for pump and dump. Quite frankly, he should probably be arrested for it if it turns out the way I think it will.
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This is how the left think and conspire. They want to shut down free speech and arrest anyone who tries to get around it.

Don't forget in November who these people are and what they want to do. They're all the same.
 
Schism said:
This is how the left think and conspire. They want to shut down free speech and arrest anyone who tries to get around it.

Don't forget in November who these people are and what they want to do. They're all the same.
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Market manipulation is not free speech my dude. It's against the law.
 
independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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A platform to manipulate Tesla stock prices.
 
mrjurrs said:
A platform to manipulate Tesla stock prices.
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This... and a platform to rant about Grimes, the SEC and whatever else is on his mind without having to face consequences.
 
independentusa said:
What does he get in return? Musk does nothing unless he gets a return and buying Twitter is no different. It Trump is reelected in 2024 and the GOP gains control of the congress, what laws is Musk looking to change that will help him get richer?
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Yet twitter continues to let these liars tweet: China Joe Xiden the pedo. Nancy Piglosi. Donna Brazile. harry Reid. Bernies crew. Washerman Schultz.
 
Schism said:
This is how the left think and conspire. They want to shut down free speech and arrest anyone who tries to get around it.

Don't forget in November who these people are and what they want to do. They're all the same.
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In case you want to reach higher than far right talking points and understand how free speech works in the United States, here it is. I doubt you'll read it because you won't like what it says and the right wing dismisses anything it doesn't like with buzz words like "fake news" and "mainstream media."


The Limits of Free Speech in Social Media​

The public seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding about the true extent of “freedom of speech” under the First Amendment. Who can or cannot restrict free speech? What type of speech can be restricted? And how does this apply to speech restrictions on social media platforms which have become so prevalent?

Lawsuits alleging free speech violations against social media companies are routinely dismissed. The primary grounds for these dismissals are that social media companies are not state actors and their platforms are not public forums, and therefore they are not subject to the free speech protections of the First Amendment. Consequently, those who post on social media platforms do not have the right to free speech on these social media platforms. This article will attempt to explain the relationship between social media and free speech so that we can understand why.

Who Can Restrict Free Speech - State v. Private Actors

The overarching principle of free speech under the First Amendment is that its reach is limited to protections against restrictions on speech made by the government.1 The text of the First Amendment itself only prevents Congress (i.e., U.S. Congress) from making laws that restrict the freedom of speech. This protection is extended to the states, and to local governments, through the State Action Doctrine and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.2 However, under the State Action Doctrine, First Amendment restrictions traditionally do not extend to private parties, such as individuals or private companies.3 In other words, a private person or private company (such as a social media company) cannot violate your constitutional free speech rights, only the government can do so. That is, unless the private party attempting to restrict speech qualifies for one of the three exceptions to the State Action Doctrine.

The rest is here:
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This is from a college in Dallas, Texas.
 
Schism said:
This is what a straw man argument looks like ^^
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No, your post is what a straw man argument looks like. I was criticizing market manipulation based on a hypothetical outcome, and you think I wanted someone jailed for speech. Take your hypocritical gaslighting elsewhere, I'm not interested.
 
Loulit01 said:
Lawsuits alleging free speech violations against social media companies are routinely dismissed. The primary grounds for these dismissals are that social media companies are not state actors and their platforms are not public forums, and therefore they are not subject to the free speech protections of the First Amendment. Consequently, those who post on social media platforms do not have the right to free speech on these social media platforms. This article will attempt to explain the relationship between social media and free speech so that we can understand why.

Who Can Restrict Free Speech - State v. Private Actors

The overarching principle of free speech under the First Amendment is that its reach is limited to protections against restrictions on speech made by the government.1 The text of the First Amendment itself only prevents Congress (i.e., U.S. Congress) from making laws that restrict the freedom of speech. This protection is extended to the states, and to local governments, through the State Action Doctrine and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.2 However, under the State Action Doctrine, First Amendment restrictions traditionally do not extend to private parties, such as individuals or private companies.3 In other words, a private person or private company (such as a social media company) cannot violate your constitutional free speech rights, only the government can do so. That is, unless the private party attempting to restrict speech qualifies for one of the three exceptions to the State Action Doctrine.
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Some on the right don't even know what the First Amendment means. They just throw it around like "woke". They like the sound of it and they think it makes a nice easy excuse to say anything they want without consequence. They use it to hide behind and in doing so demean what it really means.
 
bubbabgone said:
Musk recognizes that Twitter has been used to censor voices it doesn't agree with and that's not a good thing.
Do you think it's a good thing?
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Is it voices they do not agree with, or voices that like Trump have used twitter to spread lies and rumors?
 
Callen said:
Some on the right don't even know what the First Amendment means. They just throw it around like "woke". They like the sound of it and they think it makes a nice easy excuse to say anything they want without consequence. They use it to hide behind and in doing so demean what it really means.
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They've been force fed sound bites for so long it's all they can grasp.
 
Loulit01 said:
They've been force fed sound bites for so long it's all they can grasp.
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Let me remind you. You were lied to and kept from reading about Hunter's hard drive. We knew is was real, of course. It's been theorized that that censorship by Twitter may have tipped the election to the senile scarecrow who we now all suffer under.
Their censorship did the American public no favors.
 
Schism said:
This is how the left think and conspire. They want to shut down free speech and arrest anyone who tries to get around it.

Don't forget in November who these people are and what they want to do. They're all the same.
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Now that is a pile of the ripest BS I have ever read on this board. I will not go to the First Amendment does not control companies like Twitter, because that has been already litigated. BU even if it did, telling lies that cause people to engage in what happened on January 6th, is the same as yelling fire in a crowded theater. People have died because of some of the lies told on Twitter, and not only those on January 6th. And what happens in November will not be decided by twitter, but by inflation and by the lies told by the right about CRT and the right's continued use of racism. Scare the poor white people and you get their votes. It has been going on since the 1960's when the Civil Rights act and the Voting Right's acts were passed the GOP started the scare tactics. Those evil black men will come and rape your white daughters is what they said then and now it is they will turn your children into gay people or make them feel bad about slavery.
 
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