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I’m going to speculate based on inadequate knowledge because that’s what comments are for.

I see Musk’s investments being tied together by addressing risk to human survival. We have to electrify cars to avoid global warming. We have to get humanity off earth. Etc.

The only way Twitter fits in to that theme is if he believed that the threat to open and civilized dialogue in the leading economy in the world was somehow threatened by the content moderation policies of the two biggest social media companies, and that the threat would result in government policies that were so much worse for technology and growth that humanity would stagnate before reaching the stars. That feels like a long stretch to me. But maybe it doesn’t inside Musk’s head.

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Of course the Bezos owned Washington Post has no trouble finding a few accounts posting racist garbage (might also be trolls) - and if they didn't they probably could have created those accounts. I'm pretty sure they didn't got the tweets from their feeds or the front page. It's just spinning a narrative that the takeover by Musk is bad.

I think it's going to be interesting to see how "moderation" will work in the future. I sometimes actually found it quite useful as a curating mechanism in sort of a Streisand effect way - if someone is banned for non-obvious stuff I'm always interested what they don't want me to see. Then again, I'm not a twitter user and don't have an account. I'm not sure if all the journalists throwing a fit right now are afraid that they are going to be censored or just worried that other, more compelling content is no longer being censored and they lose out in the attention economy...

Economically this purchase makes zero sense, but so did Twitters stock price so far. It's not profitable and I don't think they ever came up with a way to make it turn a profit. So that just makes it a super expensive toy for Musk who seems to enjoy pissing off certain people to an extent that is unhealthy.

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..having a large bank account is not proof of intelligence. It only makes Life easier to deal with.

For those with historical knowledge.. after crypto has run it's course, I will be selling Tulip Bulbs on Ebay..

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So, the take home message is that Elon is every caller in these scenes condensed into one man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0K-ymOTS4

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