The Trash is hereby notified that the taking-of-itself-out shall begin immediately.
JUST IN – Elon Musk says he would reverse Trump's suspension from Twitter, adds that the ban was "morally wrong" and "flat out stupid."
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) May 10, 2022
Elon Musk didn’t kill himself.
Matt Taibbi: On drinking the delicious tears of blue-check hypocrites, who’ve suddenly discovered the perils of a privatized speech landscape.
Good podcast.
Fox News- Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a ‘Berlin Wall’ moment: Tech Titan David Sacks
— Katewerk (@katewerk) April 26, 2022
Looks like it’s a done deal. Open thread on Musk buying twitter.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH JACK DORSEY IS A VOICE OF SANITY.
You really are off into the farthest corners of la la land.
Globe and Mail- What a tangled Web the Trudeau government is weaving
It was such a lovely idea, the internet. A borderless, bodiless refuge for free expression, beyond the censor’s reach; a place of infinite capacity and zero cost, where anyone who wanted to express themselves could, in whatever medium, at whatever scale; where a book or a song or a film could be distributed with equal ease, to one person or billions; where artists had the world for an audience, and audiences could choose from among all the world’s creators. Who wouldn’t want such a thing?
Governments, that’s who. The Trudeau government, in particular, seems to see the internet not as an opportunity, a chance to stand down the immense regulatory army that has hitherto stood watch over the Canadian media, but as a challenge.
Financial Post- Elon Musk launches $41.39 billion hostile takeover of Twitter
The world’s richest man will offer US$54.20 per share in cash, representing a 54 per cent premium over the Jan 28. closing price and a value of about US$43 billion. The social media company’s shares soared 18 per cent.
In a letter to Twitter’s board, Musk said he believes Twitter “will neither thrive nor serve [its free speech] societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
The takeover is unlikely to be a drawn out process. “If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management nor do I believe I can drive the necessary change in the public market, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” said Musk.
How the process might play out.
Related- Rumble shames Globe and Mail over pressure to censor Russian content
On Monday, former Republican and ex-congressman Joe Walsh fabricated a Tucker Carlson quote on Twitter. It immediately caught the attention of Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans who hope to see the Fox News host canceled.
Walsh attributed the following statement to Carlson: “What if these bodies of tortured, dead civilians were staged? What if they’re fake? What if the Ukrainian military killed them and then blamed Russia? I’m not saying any of this is true, I’m just asking the questions. Why can’t we ask these questions?”
The quote repeating Russia’s propaganda and denial of war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, instantly went viral. On Reddit, a screenshot of Walsh’s post has nearly 60,000 upvotes with thousands of comments decrying what users believe are Carlson’s traitorous views. But Twitter is where the fake quote found currency among powerful and influential figures close to the Democratic Party.
There will be rending of garments and gnashing of teeth: Elon Musk Becomes Twitter’s Largest Shareholder After Shakeup Tease
A harsh reminder that “the cloud” really just means “someone else’s hard drive.”
The new TickTock trend just dropped pic.twitter.com/B3xJ3eHZGs
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) March 27, 2022
It was their final, most essential command.*
Matt Walsh- This is the early days of covid all over again. People are hysterical. Media feeding the panic. Lots of blatantly false information being spread around. You are expected to believe everything you hear. People who question the narrative are shouted down and shamed.
James Lindsay- I don’t know what’s going on in Ukraine right now, but I do know the news won’t help me understand it correctly.
UnHerd- Konstantin Kisin: Has the media got Ukraine wrong?
Audio only version of UnHerd
Francisco- The UnHerd interview with Konstanin Kisin is excellent. He admits he’s part of the alternative media which also by and large doesn’t have a good handle on what’s going on yet. But then goes on to give his own account of what he understands the situation to be, both on a micro and a macro level. He’s a recent Russian immigrant and his wife is Ukrainian. “It’s not really about the Ukraine, it’s about you”.
