Claimed: Elon started buying Twitter after elonjet refused $5k offer to cease

[usonian]

Via Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31220892

Links to tweet ( I hate twitter, sorry )

https://mobile.twitter.com/xyeezyszn/status/1514572774093869057

Elon Musk got so mad that a 16 year old kid was using publicly accessible data to share his private jet location that he offered the kid $5,000 to stop.
@elonjet
said no, and Elon immediately started purchasing huge chunks of Twitter stock.

Chart at the link.

[Me.]

1. Cheapskate

[sl8]

2. I heard that he flew his LearJet up to Nova Scotia to see a total eclipse of the sun.

You know, as one does.

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. That's from the Carly Simon song

"You're Cellophane"

[Lunabell]

3. Musk is a worthless human.

[JI7]

4. I think the real reason may have to do with China

He will let China use Twitter for their propaganda and in exchange he will get access and special favors from China .

[CentralMass]

5. I deactivated my account on the day of the announcement. It will

Be deleted 30 days after that date.

[rockfordfile]

6. Musk is a un-American fascist pos. I think he's un-American racist pos.

It's like a laundry list of un-American anti-democracy things said or clearly supported. Musk basically sides with the un-American fascist traitors that attacked our country on Jan 6. He sides with Russian propaganda. Therefore he sides with putin.

Then you'll have Musk worshippers put up these things and try to push, "well see he's doing this". It's just like trump shit. Chaplin has a scene in "The Great Dictator" that reminds me of that.

I gave Musk benefit of the doubt in the past. Now it's just the hammer.

[jmowreader]

8. So...someone here got it right

I don't remember who, but one of our number pointed out, perhaps jokingly, that Musk was buying Twitter to shut down this specific account.