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Metaphorical

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5. Twitter was, until acquired by Muskrat

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Tue Nov 5, 2024, 05:15 PM

Nov 5

a semi-private open trust project - it wasn't intended to make a profit, but rather serve a mission. However, it was a corporation run by a board of directors, most of whom felt that they couldn't afford to keeping it run privately, especially after Musk started waving around big money.

I think at this point the best thing that the US could do, perhaps in conjunction with other countries, is to build an open social media platform, something analogous to what NPR used to be before a Republlican Congress (more or less successfully) privatized it.

Then they can take the shambolic corpse of X-Twitter and hit it with so many fines that Musk sells it off.

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NATIONALIZE XITTER NOW!!!! [View all] Coventina Nov 5 OP

Can't prove a negative. TwilightZone Nov 5 #1

WTH? ForgedCrank Nov 5 #2

I see reports lib are being throttled on Xcrement bucolic_frolic Nov 5 #3

I remembered in 2020 GOP'ers wanted Twitter nationalized. WarGamer Nov 5 #4

I don't think they were saying they wanted the federal government to take it over. Igel Nov 5 #15

"It is a news service." TwilightZone Nov 5 #6

Twitter was, until acquired by Muskrat Metaphorical Nov 5 #5

Yes that's what needs to happen, and publicly so everyone sees it being cut down FakeNoose Nov 5 #9

It was never some grandiose project. TwilightZone Nov 5 #11

I remember Matt Tabbi's traitorous "Twitter files"... joshcryer Nov 5 #14

I see Leon is expected to be the world's first trillionaire. At his current rate of return, maybe within 5 years. Midnight Writer Nov 5 #7

I'd rather just revoke Elon's security contracts. Initech Nov 5 #8

This is America Rock Fly Nov 5 #10

WOT!? n/t Jacson6 Nov 5 #12

Who could do this? Under what law.? Your post is nonsense. Srkdqltr Nov 5 #13

POTUS has power to do so. Grasswire2 Nov 5 #16

Nationalize Starlink, too. nt Grasswire2 Nov 5 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author Blue Idaho Nov 5 #19

Can't do that. Elessar Zappa Nov 5 #18

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