Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has reached a deal to buy Twitter.com for a reported $44 billion in cash.
The deal was announced by Twitter’s board of directors who initially resisted Musk’s offer to buy the social media platform to protect freedom of speech.
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Liberals’ heads exploded when the deal was announced on Monday. Thousands of disappointed Twitter users threatened to delete their accounts.
Well, Twitter, it's been fun, but like MySpace, it looks like the party is over. I will always remember fondly your original character restraints, the typos, & your lack of a basic edit feature. We'll always have the Arab Spring. Don't cry, you knew what this was.#twittersold
— Captain Frank (Moved to Datchat) (@Frank2112) April 25, 2022
“I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means,” Musk tweeted on Monday.
The deal means Musk will take Twitter private and the stock will no longer be publicly traded.
Users whose Twitter accounts were censored or suspended begged Musk to reinstate their accounts.
The news of Musk’s Twitter takeover comes on the same day his friend Donald Trump was held in contempt by a New York judge for refusing to hand over his financial records to NY’s attorney general.
The former president will be fined $10,000 a day until he turns over the documents in attorney general Letitia James’ investigation into the Trump Organization’s business dealings, according to The New York Times.
Trump, who lost a few hundred million as president, is still worth close to a billion dollars.
Meanwhile, check out the sour grapes below.
If you believe in free speech, you should oppose Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter. If he's successful, it would put extraordinary power into the hands of one man.
— Matthew Stadlen (@MatthewStadlen) April 25, 2022
One man should not be the arbiter of what free speech does or doesn’t mean.
— Matthew Stadlen (@MatthewStadlen) April 25, 2022
As a trans woman I cannot use this platform without detriment to my mental health due to all the hate speech and personal attacks. It is quite possibly the case for many, if not most trans people here. Is calling trans people "groomers", "pedos", "perverts" etc. "free spech"?
— Maja Heban (@HebanMaja) April 25, 2022
I hope you won't become a platform for spreading misinformation as that's not what free speech means.
— Adi Gaskell (@AdiGaskell) April 25, 2022
Decent people aren't going to remain on a platform that you turn into a cesspool of harassers, conspiracy theorists, Nazis and abusive misogynists (to name a few). You're purposefully setting out to destroy this platform to salvage your own man child ego.
— Ashton Pittman ?????????? (@ashtonpittman) April 25, 2022
