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Re: Musk v. Twitter

A collection of some comments on and reactions to Elon Musk's attempts to buy Twitter, and related issues.

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17 Apr 2022 — 3 min read

I don't want Elon Musk to acquire Twitter because I don't like his idea of free speech. Twitter, which adopted a 'poison pill strategy', may just be bargaining on the other hand:

True to form, Twitter left its door open by emphasising that its poison pill will not prevent its board from “engaging with parties or accepting an acquisition proposal” at a higher price.

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But on Thursday he indicated he was ready to wage a legal battle.

“If the current Twitter board takes actions contrary to shareholder interests, they would be breaching their fiduciary duty,” Musk tweeted. “The liability they would thereby assume would be titanic in scale.”

'What is Twitter’s ‘poison pill’ and what is it supposed to do?', Al Jazeera, April 16, 2022

Rosen calls out the weird thread by @Yishan that, to me, failed to acknowledge the responsibility of social media platforms in placing the lies increasingly typical of conservative politics on the same footing as pro-democracy writing, and undermining the value of public dialogue.

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