Elon’s views are extreme in the sense that no current and popular social media is being run with a light touch approach to moderation. I’m not sure how he plans to combat scams and bots, two issues which go against an absolutist free speech approach.<p>I do think Elon being closely involved with running Twitter is a net good. We’ve tried a lot of different approaches to social media, now perhaps it’s time to try laissez faire.<p>The unfortunate side effect of experimentation is that if Elon succeeds in a Twitter takeover, Twitter is both more likely to become much more successful, _and_ more likely to die. Right now Twitter is floating in between, a solid offering with few prospects for growth and unlikely to be superseded in the near future.
Elon taking over Twitter would be a good thing for Twitter and probably a bad thing for him.<p>Twitter is dying, and could probably use a fundamental revamp which Elon would provide. However Elon really has more important things to worry about.
Elon is a self-professed "free-speech absolutist." I don't think it's good for absolutists of any stripe to run our social media companies. There's no quick fix for the problems twitter faces.
Ideas on what Musk could do?<p>Maybe he could control much more twitter stock through friendly shareholders. e.g. I buy $1B of Twitter stock with money I borrow from Elon and pledge those shares to elect Elon's board members and what not. He'd just need 4 friendlies, and they don't even have to be billionaires.<p>What can we collectively do to help Musk take control of twitter? Are there are any GameStop short-squeeze strategies here?
This means Twitter's board probably isn't interested in accepting a buy-out at a significant price premium. Very curious to see how this develops, and I'd love to know what's going through twitter's boards' heads.
Murdoch has used this to maintain control over Fox for some time.<p>"Rupert Murdoch plans to 'poison' News Corp takeover bids" [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/24/news-corp-rupert-murdoch-poison-pill" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/24/news-corp-rupe...</a>