Billionaire Elon Musk’s half-year-long gambit to break the Death Cult’s grip on social media has now entered the endgame. He’s liquidated a fortune in Tesla stock. And the word from Wall Street is that the banks who’ve agreed to underwrite Musk’s Twitter buyout have begun wiring the money to buy the platform.
According to the agreement reached by Musk and Twitter, he has until tomorrow to close the deal, which Musk says he intends to do. Submitting a notice to borrow the other $13 billion he needs, which prompted the banks to place the funds in escrow, is a definite signal he’s serious.
And he’s past the point of no return. If Musk were to back out now, Twitter’s lawsuit against him would be back on. That would mean he’d go to trial next month – a trial he’d be almost certain to lose. In that event, he’d have to pay damages to the tune of $1 billion and could also be forced to buy Twitter anyway.
So at the risk of this post having aged poorly tomorrow, this is it. Elon Musk will be in total control of a new, private Twitter.
Death Cult media organs have latched onto an open letter Musk wrote to Twitter’s advertisers.
The Cultists have seized upon Musk’s line about not letting Twitter become a “free-for-all hellscape” to convince themselves and us that he’ll continue the old censorship regime.
That’s a cope for them and FUD for us. The entire letter up to that line suggests the opposite interpretation. His following mention of “adhering to the laws of the land” makes it more far likely he’s talking about disallowing illegal activities like death threats, drug deals, and pedo stuff. All of which I’ve pointed out as landmines in Elon’s path – especially if SCOTUS revokes Twitter’s Section 230 immunity in their upcoming trial.
Remember, even free speech absolutist Andrew Torba had to make some practical compromises with Gab. On any social media platform, keeping a lid on wreckers, troublemakers, and weirdos is just the cost of doing business. You can bet Musk understands that fact.
The upshot is that there’s no mention of purged accounts staying banned. Whenever he’s been asked, Musk has said he’ll allow Donald Trump and others anathematized by the Death Cult back on. That’s a seismic shift in the cultural landscape. And it’s more evidence that a less insane faction of the elite has had enough of the unholy mess their unhinged peers have made.
It takes a plumber to deal with an obstruction in These Intertubes.
Which is another fact Uncle Elon has shown he understands.
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Excellent. We’ve been suffering under one of the worst Elite classes in history for so long that just having moderately bad elites would feel like a massive breath of fresh air.
CantusTropus,
Perhaps. I want to see how he unbans the expelled. I’m one of them and I’m curious.
xavier
We won’t have to wait as long as I thought. Word just came down that Parag Agarwal is out at Twitter HQ. Elon Musk is now acting CEO.
I think that the part where he says you’ll be able to “choose your desired experience according to your preferences” is the most interesting. It sounds like he wants to make it so that each person can customize what they want to see and avoid seeing. That seems like an ideal approach. There will still be bubbles and echo chambers, of course, but they will be self-imposed rather than dictated from the top down.
Said self-imposed bubbles would in any effect come into being anyway, as people naturally seek to avoid contact with people they dislike and maximise contact with people they like.
I also cannot understand those people who are still maintaining that Elon’s actually doing this for a profit motive. Sure, I doubt he’d complain if Twitter turned a profit, but antagonising the Powers That Be is never a profitable endeavour.
If we’ve learned nothing else since dissident politics broke out in 2014, it’s that a large segment of the population – perhaps a majority – have no useful insights and should not be given a hand in making decisions for anyone else.
A notable subset of the above is the group that latched onto the first “Imagine if we won” meme they saw. Each of them has his own cartoon vision of how Total Victory™ plays out and will brook no infringements on his head canon.