MSNBC just announced Elon Musk bought a Twitter for $44B.

[SunSeeker]

He claims it's to "unlock" Twitter, because free speech is necessary to a functioning democracy.


I wonder if he is going to unblock all those people he blocked for criticizing him....

[Tomconroy]

1. Here comes trump. Jerk.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Time to get an account and fill it with posts about certain rich assholes.

Twitter will be 8chan, except with billions of users around the world.

[Carlitos Brigante]

3. .

[SunSeeker]

5. Musk doesn't understand what free speech means either. nt

[Marius25]

4. This world just gets worse and worse.

Trump will now be back on Twitter.

Right-wingers are celebrating like crazy.

[SunSeeker]

6. Yep. This is not a good development for democracy. nt

[keep_left]

13. It's going to be exhausting...again. Drumpf shitposting hundreds of times a day...

...and the news media breathlessly covering every utterance so it will be almost impossible to ignore him.

[Hugin]

7. Thus making the twit actually literal.

Nice move.

I’m still not buying a Tesla.

[SunSeeker]

9. Me neither. I just bought a Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid.

Great car. And not a penny went to Musk.

[Torchlight]

8. Best free speech money can buy

I've got zero skin in the game, but will watch the fallout from this with morbid interest.

Apps come, apps go. I still play Pong every once in a while.

[Initech]

10. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[spanone]

11. Let the trump lies flow.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. rump's lapdogs will be busy blocking people. So will the MAGATs.

If Musk intends to make it a free-for-all, that's just what he'll get. No longer constrained by the threat of a timeout or banishment, folks will be free to tell fatso and friends just what they think of them, in no uncertain terms. Same for his other brain-dead, drooling worshippers.

Unless, of course, Mr. Tesla decides that it isn't going to be a wide-open bastion of free speech, after all. That would shock me no end. Not.

[keep_left]

14. It won't be a wide-open bastion for long. Even Drumpf's "Truth Social" has a Section 230 clause...

...in its TOS. "Truth" even bans people for mocking the platform itself. Wait 'til Elon Musk meets with his lawyers and finds out about all the liability he'll be facing due to the alt-right neo-Nazi chuds and other scum who will invade his platform.

[Hugin]

15. Free speech is a one-way street with the narcissistic class.

Maybe Musk will re-brand as ‘preen’.

[Blue Owl]

16. Fat Donny's already warming up the gold toilet seat

[SunSeeker]

17. MSNBC reported Trump just told Fox during a phone interview that he won't return to Twitter.

Of course, he's lying. He will certainly return if Twitter lets him.

[Blue Owl]

18. Oh he'll return alright...