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Elon offered the owner of the account $5,000 to shut up. The owner counter-offer was $50,000, after which Elon cut off all communications.

Then he spent $41 billions to buy Twitter, and proceeded to silence and suspend the account.

This doesn't qualify as money well spent IMHO, but what do I know.

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Don't forget that one of the first things he did as the CEO of twitter was ask about striking rules against misgendering.

Definitely didn't have anything to do with his trans daughter disowning him or his ex dating a trans person at all.

What a petty man.

I have an honest question. Why do you care? Why does anyone even bother following his life details.

He has literally zero impact on your individual life.

The rule being sticken happens to affect me. And also most of my peer group is now spread out between cohost, splintered fediverse servers (who blocks whom? it's a mystery!) and somehow some are still on Twitter despite it clearly being an increasingly unsafe place for the likes of me. (Especially considering who got access to the backend moderation service to "investigate" now).

So I'd say his fits had a pretty severe effect on me.

You've posted this elsewhere.

If this is an honest question, an honest answer for you: he's the most powerful person on the planet. He can shape the world in ways that no other human can.

It's reasonable to be concerned about his behavior. The potential for him to change society is astronomical.

Perhaps he might have bought Twitter for reasons other than closing down Elonjet?

It's possible, yes. The evidence for that is scarce, though.

Not really, in court filings there are text messages with him pretty clearly discussing his rationale.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-texts-joe-rogan-larry-elllison...

Elon Musk:

EU passed a law banning Russia Today and several other Russian news sources. We have been told to block their IP address.

Actually, I find their news quite entertaining

Lot of bullshit, but some good points too

--- Wow...

Also looks like he's great friends with Larry Ellison. That explains a lot.

> Also looks like he's great friends with Larry Ellison. That explains a lot.

Don't forget Peter Thiel.

Whooosh!

It seems as though the main reason he bought Twitter was that he was legally compelled to by the Delaware Court of Chancery.

It didn't even get to that point, did it? The twitter board was suing to force the purchase and he agreed to it to stop the lawsuit - makes me wonder what there was that might've come out in discovery that would've been worse for him than blowing 40-odd billion on twitter.

No chance. Elon's incompetence is vital to my worldview.

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