How long before someone on the right tries taking over bluesky

[Fullduplexxx]

And do to it what elmo did to Twitter

[Irish_Dem]

1. One year from now?

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Just in time for the next congessional election

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes exactly.

The plans are being made as we speak.

[rampartd]

2. they are working on it now

don't you think?

[gordianot]

5. Along with MSNBC any day.

They already bought Morrning Joe.

[sir pball]

6. Highly unlikely, BSky is entirely private so there's no real way to take it over.

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It's not a public company, with stocks that can be bought out to gain control like what happened with Twitter. It's private; the ownership is divided among several people but the majority stake is held by founder Jay Gruber, who seems like a level enough person that she wouldn't sell out even if someone dangled a several-billion-dollar bag of cash in front of her. I suppose the new administration could flex some fascist muscle and claim some kind of eminent domain malarkey or something, but in a normal society BSky is safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#Corporate_structure
https://bsky.social/about/faq

[maxrandb]

7. No need to take anything over

Surrender in advance is the medias new norm.

[Sugarmaggie]

8. Bluesky response from cnbc article

Couple of bulletpoints

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told CNBC that Bluesky's open design is intended to give users the option of leaving the service with all of their followers, which could thwart potential acquisition efforts.

"The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source," Graber said.

Not sure anything is bulletproof

[Blue Full Moon]

9. Already being tried

Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and big Democratic donor. He proposes buying and shutting down Bluesky to “prevent further fracturing of the town square.”