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Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 7:03pm On Mar 27, 2022
Elon Musk asks 'is a new platform needed?' after Twitter free speech criticism
Musk's 79.1 million followers immediately called on him to either buy Twitter himself or build a new platform.

By Andrew Mark Miller FOXBusiness

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Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk wondered aloud on Twitter whether another platform is needed, causing his millions of followers to call for him to buy the social media giant.

"Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy," Musk tweeted Saturday. "What should be done?"

In a follow-up post, Musk asked, "Is a new platform needed?"

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Musk's 79.1 million followers immediately called on him to either buy Twitter himself or build a new platform.

"Buy this one!!!" Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis responded.

"Yes," former CIA analyst and conservative radio host Buck Sexton tweeted. "Buy twitter or please build one. Save the country from these psycho Silicon Valley libs."

"Buy Twitter," radio host Jason Rantz tweeted.

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Musk's original post asking his followers what should be done about Twitter censorship was retweeted over 10,000 times and liked over 62,000 times an hour after being posted.

Twitter has been widely criticized for years by conservatives who say the social media giant has censored free speech including this week when the company put warning labels on articles published by The Federalist it said "may be unsafe."

Twitter later removed the warning labels and told Fox News Digital that the company had "mistakenly" flagged the posts.

Twitter previously took part in the widespread effort to suppress the New York Post's bombshell reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, which was authenticated by The New York Times last week.

foxbusiness
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by dawnomike(m): 7:05pm On Mar 27, 2022
Elon Musk flexing his ocial media followership muscles with enough wealth to back it all up.
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by heniford2: 7:25pm On Mar 27, 2022
Savage reply but twitter na useless undecided
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 6:06pm On Mar 28, 2022
dawnomike:


Elon Musk flexing his ocial media followership muscles with enough wealth to back it all up.

I hope he takes the monopoly away from those high tech companies. cool
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 10:41pm On Apr 14, 2022
Will Musk Train Twitter?



PRETTY BIRD! SAY "FREE SPEECH!"

UPDATE:

It's a worst case scenario for the easily triggered snowflake employees at Twitter: Elon Musk has just offered to buy the entire company. And even in doing so, he hasn’t stopped trolling.

Elon Musk has made a bold move by offering to purchase 100% of Twitter for around $43 billion with a bid of $54.20.

According to an updated 13D filing read that Musk offered "to acquire all of the outstanding Common Stock of the Issuer not owned by the Reporting Person for all cash consideration valuing the Common Stock at $54.20 per share (which values the company around $43 billion)," warning Twitter management this is his "high price" and "if the deal doesn’t work," he would "reconsider my position as a shareholder." story at Zerohedge.

Elon Musk now owns nearly 10 percent of Twitter, which sent shivers of fear up the censorious spines of those currently running the company. Musk is now being attacked on MSNBC and other globalist, lefty media outlets. They say he's a 'racist' and the usual blather. They do not want Musk to return free speech to the public square that was Twitter.

Musk was going to be on the board, but then he would have been limited to how much stock he would be allowed to have. Instead he declined the post and now he can buy more shares. He's one of the richest men in the world and he could certainly afford it and he may be one of the few oligarchs who is out to restore some of our freedom rather than take it away.

Musk can be a hero here, but he needs help. If conservatives bought the stock and then transferred their voting rights to him by proxy, the Tesla honcho could end up with a controlling stake and thus make changes including the reintroduction of free speech. He might even restore President Trump's posting privileges.

One can only hope…

— Ben Garrison

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Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 9:21am On Apr 16, 2022
Musk Fires Back To Entitled Saudi Prince Trying To Prevent Twitter Sale

https://www.mrctv.org/blog/musk-fires-back-entitled-saudi-prince-trying-prevent-twitter-sale
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by VictorUSA(m): 10:23am On Apr 16, 2022
Musk want to tap into people's mind in order to know the next step to take.
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 6:04pm On Apr 16, 2022
VictorUSA:


Musk want to tap into people's mind in order to know the next step to take.

Are you scared that he wants to tamper with their monopoly?
Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by gambojimeta: 6:27pm On Apr 16, 2022
Tell him to build new platform or buy over the failed one by Trump. Truth social or whatever the fuk it's called grin

Re: Elon Musk Asks 'Is A New Platform Needed?' After Twitter Free Speech Criticism by OLAADEGBU(m): 7:43pm On Apr 16, 2022
gambojimeta:


Tell him to build new platform or buy over the failed one by Trump. Truth social or whatever the fuk it's called grin

Why wouldn't they ban perverts who have no sense of decency when posting disgusting and tasteless memes as you do on this forum. cheesy

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