Toons
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Twitter is not a free speech platform. It likely won't be even after Musk buys
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Elon Musk and the Twitter acquisition saga
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Twitter is not a free speech platform. It likely won't be even after Musk buys
Toons
Member
...nah he definitely gave it up for a 4 bill paycheck lol. Thats not even in question. Either that or the PT did worse than we thought and he was hurting for cash.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Hollywood can be weird
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ReBurn
Gold Member
The thing about that...it's exactly what investors want. If you can make them believe that you can do the same work with 25% of the people then they're going to love you because the results will manifest as increased earnings per share. A lot of layoffs are driven by that very principle.
Those 200 billion tweets are likely already largely moderated through AI/ML robots with more automation coming online all the time. Content moderator as a profession is not likely going to be a thing in the near future.
ManaByte
Member
Hopefully Saint Anita will lose her mass ban abilities.
Vestal
Junior Member
Investors are not part of the equation, since Musk is buying the company outright.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Not true. He's buying the company, but not all of the money he's using is his. Much of it is equity financing being provided by large investors. And with $13 billion in debt backed by major banks.
Vicetrailia
Banned
It’s not.
They will lose all of their best. The only ones left will be the weasels who think they can move up without having the talent to do so. But that’s written in stone at this point, people have been leaving twitter left and right.
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ReBurn
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I don't know. That's usually just what people who are laid off say. My experience over decades in technology companies, all of which have experienced layoffs, has shown me that it usually doesn't come down to weasels vs. talent in layoffs. The weasels are usually also talented. They're just not very likeable because they tend to be overtly ambitious and often aggressive. They're seen as suck ups because they conform to company culture in a world where you're supposed to hate your job. But rarely are the weasels who aren't let go incapable. They're just willing to give up work/life balance for "the good of the company."
The people who are let go typically just fall on the wrong side of whatever line management draws and it's different every time. Unless it's a function super critical to the company, if two people can fulfill the function then the less expensive one often gets to stay even if they don't do it quite as well. If the company can do without the function then both get cut. Sometimes they just drop whole teams or departments regardless of talent or ability to contribute in other parts of the company. In the end it's about money and not popularity.
Vicetrailia
Banned
The idea here is to get people to voluntarily leave. The ones who remain are the dedicated ones who would have more anxiety about competing for jobs if they were let go. The talent goes first, the ones who see opportunity with less competition are the ones who want to stay.
Of course there are talented corporate drones who want to stay, but they aren’t weasels, at least I don’t call them that. I’m talking about the people you really need to be keeping who are gonna go poof now.
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ReBurn
Gold Member
Most large companies don't make things suck on purpose so people will quit before they're fired. Small companies may do that to avoid having to make hard decisions. Large companies want to try to control who stays and goes and usually don't care about people either way. But to your point, once layoffs start anyone who is smart should immediately start to look for a job. In my experience it's always best to be one of the first to leave.
MastaKiiLA
Member
I love how shambolic this whole thing has been. I initially hated the idea of Musk buying Twitter, but warmed to it once I realized that he'll just inherit the same unwinnable situation he scapegoated Twitter for. I like how even before the deal is even finalized, the whole thing looks so precarious. I don't expect the product to change much at all. I do expect Musk to have a newfound respect for the liability social platforms carry around. With now 2 prominent public figures exhibiting super-sketchy behavior let's really take a proper look at how the "champion of free speech" acts when the chips are down. So far, he looks desperate to get out of the deal.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
He went back to wanting to buy it but now the govt is reviewing national security concerns as Musk has been tweeting Russian talking points.
The circus continues unabated.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
NickFire
Member
Is that "concern" really slow walking this? And if it is, my oh my they couldn't be more transparent if they tried looking at the calendar.
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Musk has until Friday. The ball is with him at the moment from what I’ve read. The security thing affects more than just Twitter.
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Correct. It's related to an executive order from last year, one that defines criteria for government examination of risks of any apps owned, controlled or managed by people supporting foreign adversary military or intelligence service or when the apps collect sensitive personal data. So, Musk's tweets and conversation(s) with Putin basically sparked this investigation. This executive order was issued because previous attempts to ban WeChat and TikTok were either blocked by court injunction (WeChat) or got stuck in the gears of justice with a lawsuit (TikTok) because those executive orders basically didn't provide enough evidence-based justification.
Seeing as it took the government a little over a year to muster the confidence to attempt to block TikTok again, I doubt the Justice Department will be trying to stop this sale in the courts given the short timeline and fact that Musk is obviously no foreign agent, but who knows.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Yeah, what he said.
3liteDragon
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///PATRIOT
Banned
Awesome, all according to keikaku
HoodWinked
Member
lol bringing in a literal sink
///PATRIOT
Banned
ChorizoPicozo
Member
Knowing musk....those are going to be just fine.
Cyberpunkd
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chromhound
Member
Well I'll be damned. He actually went through with it
It's a reference to the annoying image macros people post in reply to his tweets.
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I think it's because he says let that sink in, and he literally lets a sink in.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Went to see what was trending on Twitter.
E-Cat
Member
It will complete his original vision of X.com, or what PayPal was supposed to become
Also there will be a video service to rival YT
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
And a bj robot.
funkygunther
Banned
We've all post hoc justified our stupid extravagant purchases. Is there any evidence of this intent before he (finally) decided to (maybe) buy it?
E-Cat
Member
Dunno, I'm sure there are many angles to why he wants to buy it. Another might be gathering massive data for AGI
Pilgrimzero
Member
44 Billion for Twitter. What a fucking idiot.
NightmareFarm
Member
He should get rid of the "follow" feature.
///PATRIOT
Banned
Pegasus Actual
Member
Godspeed noble Elon.
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
After all of the drama since April, I'll wait for the SEC filing.
As for Musk's supposed plans, I doubt the banks backing $13bn of that financing and the investors he's borrowing billions more from would enjoy him coming in and immediately wrecking their investment by wiping out 75% of the workforce. I don't think even he's foolish enough to attempt to follow through on those bold claims, but hey, if he burns down his own company I'll be observing the failure in raptured curiosity and schadenfreude like everyone else.
As for Musk's supposed plans, I doubt the banks backing $13bn of that financing and the investors he's borrowing billions more from would enjoy him coming in and immediately wrecking their investment by wiping out 75% of the workforce. I don't think even he's foolish enough to attempt to follow through on those bold claims, but hey, if he burns down his own company I'll be observing the failure in raptured curiosity and schadenfreude like everyone else.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
If sacking 99% of the workforce made for a more profitable Twitter, they'd encourage him to go for the last 0.9%.
ShadowLag
Member
///PATRIOT
Banned
and the reeeeeee's announcing their leaving like it's an airport.
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