I wonder how many will still utilize Twitter if Musk succeeds in the buyout, and allows trump back

[JohnSJ]

on?

Going over to the financial forums over at Yahoo, there is no doubt the trumpers and republicans are rooting for Musk in this endeavor

[brooklynite]

1. 1) I don't think Trump will be added back to Twitter

2) People will continue to use Twitter (myself included) as then did when Trump was on it.

[JohnSJ]

3. If Musk is able to buy Twitter and take it private, he has already said as much. He wants to let

to let virtually anyone say virtually anything on Twitter if he succeeds in buying the social media platform.

If he says that, you should take him at his word

I don't understand why some don't take seriously when someone says they will do something, they don't believe.

The same thing was being bantered about when trump and republicans were trying to over-turn the election. "Oh, it won't happen".

We escaped by shear luck

[exboyfil]

14. Not just luck

Courage by some of the Capitol police, staffers, and the politicians themselves (yes even a few Republicans).

[JohnSJ]

15. Yes, but it was very close

[dixiechiken1]

2. I won't.

Not like I have a huge presence or anything but I'm out the second that happens. I won't be a part of it.

[JohnSJ]

4. I am not a social media user, so I have no ball in this game, but I do think a platform without

regulations poises very real risks

[leftstreet]

6. Twitter has lots of regulations

It's obvious you're not a user, otherwise you'd know people get suspended and banned on Twitter all the time

[Rebl2]

11. If he

takes it over, don’t you think he will get rid of a lot of regulations? Maybe he doesn’t have the power to do that. What happened to the poison pill they were talking about earlier this week.

[JohnSJ]

18. The problem is he has some big financial institutions backing him, and if he goes directly to the

shareholders, all he needs is to squire 50.1% of the shares, poison pill or not. I don’t know if he will be able to pull it off. As an investment I don’t think it is a very good investment though

[womanofthehills]

24. Musk says he will have a system to let people know if they are talking to real person

People who prove who they are to Twitter with an ID will get a checkmark on their posts.

[Rebl2]

31. With an

ID like driver’s license?

[JohnSJ]

16. Musk has already said he wants to let virtually anyone say anything on Twitter if he succeeds in

taking the social media platform private

“to let virtually anyone say virtually anything on Twitter if he succeeds in buying the social media platform. “

There is no regulation that will stop that platform from pushing lies

[leftstreet]

17. Do you have a link to that quote?

I wasn't aware of that

[JohnSJ]

19. Not handy, but it was from Barton's. I suspect you can just Google

what Musk’s plans with Twitter are

From CNBC

At the TED2022 conference, Musk spoke in general terms about allowing more content to go unmoderated on the platform in the name of free speech — a change that could allow more hate speech and harassment to flourish — and didn't address core business concerns such as user growth or advertising revenue.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna24613

[leftstreet]

20. Oh I see

In any case, like most social media forums, you can say virtually anything you want. It's the TOS and content moderation that matters in terms of banning or whatever.

[JohnSJ]

25. If he succeeds in the takeover, he is taking the company private. He can set whatever rules he

wants

and he will let trump back on in a NY minute, for the simple fact trump will generate traffic

[leftstreet]

26. I thought Twitter was already private n/t

[JohnSJ]

27. No. TWITTER is public, the symbol is TWTR. It isn't making money, and Musk has said he has

secured additional financing from several financial institutions, which makes me suspect, though I have no proof, is to push a political agenda to their advantage. The reason I say that is because as a business venture it is currently losing money. Also, with rising interest rates makes it even a more risky investment I think

[empedocles]

8. lot of people across the spectrum still sticking with zuck's facebook

[Jim__]

5. If Trump gets back on twitter, the media will blast out every tweet he makes. - n/t

[Zambero]

7. But "Truth Social" blows Twitter out of he water!

Amazing, fantastic, ingenious, non-nonsense, All-American, so special, brilliant. Thanks to mastermind overseer Devin Nunes, who needs Twitter???

[BlueJac]

9. Musk doesn't need to own everything!

F him!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

10. I don't use Twitter, have never used Twitter,

wouldn't know how to even if I wanted to, same goes for FaceBook and others, this is the only social site I belong to and use.

[Rebl2]

21. Never joined

Twitter either. Do look at Instagram though, but just a local news station, and fun stuff I am interested in like cross stitching, botanical gardens, and a toy and miniature museum in KCMO, etc.

[Javaman]

12. I only tipped my toe into the twitter universe as recently as a month ago...

i know musk only wants to buy it out of revenge to try and quiet his critics.

if he gets controlling interest, I'm out.

I have and still to find twitter, for the most part, completely useless.

the only things I follow are NASA and the Glaciers in Antarctica.

[SoonerPride]

13. I would delete my account instantly

I'm sure my 5,000 followers would miss me.

[PortTack]

29. Same, I don't have many followers..Don't care, but I will close my account

It will go the same as all the m$m news coverage…dead to me.

[Beakybird]

22. Elon Musk himself posted a meme comparing Justin Trudeau to Adolf Hitler.

This is when the Canadian prime minister started cracking down on the Trucker convoy. He removed the tweet soon after, probably after complaints from Tesla board of directors. But this tells you everything you need to know that this megalomaniac is a troll, and he will turn Twitter into the dark web.

[Lucid Dreamer]

23. You will see a lot of people saying they will drop twitter, but...

it is such a powerful digital/social drug that 90+% will stick with it regardless of what they say.

That's my opinion.

[SoonerPride]

30. Maybe for a lot of poeple. Not me. I canceled Facebook in 2016 over trump and would drop twitter too

But you are right, many people here still use Facebook.

Despite continued evidence they are helping fascism.

[haele]

28. Of course modern conservatives want Twitter to be Musk's baby.

They want to return to the "good old days" when they could be the loudest voices in the country, doxxing normal people as liberals left and right, and hounding LGBTQ+ teens, rape victims, and sensitive people to suicide in wolf-pack attacks.
They want to feel the rush of a death blow quip where they can show off to their buddies how they destroyed a Lib with a Gish-gallop lie or juvenile comment.
They can't do that on one of their "free speech forum" failures.

Trolls gotta troll. No fun if there's no potential victim using their bridge to nowhere.
And that's what Musk wants to do with Twitter. Turn it into a bridge to nowhere.

Haele

[AZProgressive]

32. I will likely delete my account