Wall Street Urinal: Musk, Twitter deal falling through would be 'loss for free speech'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is warning that a reported breakdown in negotiations between Elon Musk and Twitter in the Tech mogul’s bid to purchase the social media company is bad news for free discourse.

Calling a potential busted deal “a loss for the social-media site as well as for political free speech,” the Journal wrote in a Sunday editorial “the only winners” from Musk walking away from the deal “will be progressives who support the site’s censorship of views that don’t conform to theirs on politics, climate and many other subjects.”

“Mr. Musk may be hoping to negotiate a lower purchase price, but if he does walk away it will be a loss for political discourse,” the newspaper continued. “Tweets by conservatives that present even purely factual information about subjects like Covid treatments and climate are often labelled misinformation. Accounts are suspended without explanation, and appeals go answered. Nobody knows who the wizards are behind the curtains making these decisions, and Mr. Musk says he’d allow more open debate.”

Musk in a financial filing on Friday afternoon said he had terminated his agreement to buy Twitter, claiming the company was “is in material breach of multiple provisions.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wall-street-journal-musk-twitter-deal-falling-through-would-be-loss-for-free-speech/ar-AAZsiHz

Oh go fuck yourself.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Not to mention that many Russian troll farm

field hands might face layoffs.

[JohnSJ]

2. Another reason I recycle their subscription offers. I wouldn't subscribe to that Murdoch rag if

paid me

[lapfog_1]

3. I would if they paid me

I don't have a bird... but if they paid me to get their RWNJ rag I would use the money to buy a bird and line the cage with their paper.

[JohnSJ]

4. I wouldn't for the simple reason it might falsely elevate their subscription numbers, and I don't

want my demographics in their RW database

[gratuitous]

5. Surely the Wall Street Journal is aware of Musk's record on these big business deals

If not, Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice has a handy compendium of Musk's occasional "I'm bored" forays into mergers and acquisitions.

It's kind of long, but mostly quoting other folks' longer and shorter treatments of the Twitter acquisition fiasco. It can probably be summed up best by mike "rotisserie villain" m's tweet: "I would say musk's failure here is due primarily to him running his big fat mouth."