Did Elon Musk get played in the Twitter deal?

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by jeffthechimp • 4 years ago

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mwint2• 4 years ago

So, to use a very primitive metaphor, imagine a Twitter that wasn’t managed by a company, but was able to grow and be moderated by developers and users, the way Wikipedia is.

Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either.

conz2• 4 years ago

Wikipedia is no bastion of free speech either.

Wikipedia shouldn't be a bastion of free speech, in the same way that a text-book shouldn't be the bastion of 'all forms of crazy and unsportable ideas'. Anything that doesn't have requisite levels of credible evidence should be removed from Wikipedia or at least appropriately marked with caveats.

If you want a bastion of free speech, consider the Internet as a whole as your only viability.

version_five• 4 years ago

It's pretty clear that the grandparent comment means wikipedia doesn't support diverse views on things. Outside of the hard sciences, and even there with caveats, there are not objective truths, and the point is that wikipedia is not a place where all interpretations get the same consideration. Maybe it would be useless if it did, but it's not bias-free

wmf• 4 years ago

Would you rather own the IETF or AWS?

Bluesky could become profitable only by issuing a scamcoin, but putting that aside... Bluesky only has value if Twitter adopts it but as long as Twitter is publicly traded they won't have the courage to decentralize. So Elon can buy Twitter for the purpose of forcing them to adopt Bluesky.

Did Elon Musk get played in the Twitter deal?

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