Elon Musk may be buying Twitter

I think it all depends on what Musk plans to accomplish with his influence at Twitter. I doubt seriously that this was just about forcing Trump back on the platform. That would seem to be no win for Musk and Musk always works for himself. He's got a plan.

He's not afraid to do things he thinks will work, like moving his entire operation from Liberal CA to Conservative TX. but I feel he also does not want to irritate this administration any more than he feels he has to. The FAA has been blocking his Super Heavy Testing for months now with the "environmental impact" study. An FAA controlled by the Biden Administration. Has Super Heavy been held over his head to keep him quiet?

Of course, if this move is in response to that delay and is making sure he can attack the Biden administration on the platform without getting removed like Trump, then all bets are off. Biden will be lucky if there isn't a landing "failure" on his retirement home before this is over. Musk does not play around.

The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed completion of an environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by at least another month, to April 29 at the earliest.

The FAA has been working on a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) of Starbase, the South Texas site where SpaceX develops, builds and tests its next-generation Starship vehicle, for months now. The agency published a draft PEA in mid-September, estimating at the time that the final report would be done by the end of the year.

That didn't happen; the FAA pushed the completion date back to Feb. 14, citing the need to consult further with other agencies and analyze the thousands of public comments submitted in response to the draft PEA.

The target date slipped again, to March 28, for similar reasons. And the FAA announced today (March 25) that the same factors have pushed the target date to the right yet again, to April 29.

Today's news likely won't have much of an impact on Starship's development timeline, however. SpaceX is gearing up to launch the first-ever Starship orbital test flight, but the company likely won't be ready for that milestone until May at the earliest, Elon Musk said recently.

Starship is a giant, fully reusable rocket-spaceship duo that SpaceX is developing to take people and cargo to the moon, Mars and other distant destinations. Musk believes that the vehicle will make ambitious exploration feats such as Mars colonization economically feasible.
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Regardless of what anyone thinks of Trump's tweets, the fact that a former POTUS is banned from Twitter but leaders of countries like Iran still have access is absurd. I don't particularly think Trump tweeting again like he was before is a positive thing for him or the Republican party but I do think he should have access again.
 
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Agreed that its pretty crappy, esp since they are using the Jan incident as the reason when all those that tweeted support for the "other" riots were left on the platform. However, as of now they are a private company and non-regulated. They purchase their bandwidth from the Internet providers just like everyone else. Do we want the government to be able to force such companies to give access to anyone? It's kinda like talk radio. Conservatives talk radio usually does well. Liberal talk radio has died most every time. The users decide who wins. That's a good thing.

If conservatives were a major percentage of Tweeters income, then they could quit and tweeter would die too. But they are not costing them money/users, so Tweeter doesn't care.

Another option would be for Trump to invest 2 Billion, so he too could have owned 10% of the company and get on the board. But he didn't go that route.

I also agree that him tweeting would negatively impact good conservatives candidates that don't kiss his butt. So from that perspective, tweeter is actually *helping* get electable conservatives successful in the primaries. That's a good thing.
 
I agree with most above. But the reality is, Trump was banned purely for political reasons. The hard left is afraid of Trump, and that's precisely why he was banned from social media, impeached twice, and also why they are still trying to tie him to November 6th. Trump is a threat to the radical left's evil agenda.
 
I 100% agree that Twitter should be able to decide who has access and who doesn't. The govt should have no say in that process even if Twitter makes absurd decisions.

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I also agree that him tweeting would negatively impact good conservatives candidates that don't kiss his butt. So from that perspective, tweeter is actually *helping* get electable conservatives successful in the primaries. That's a good thing.
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Good point!
 
Wow....so Musk will not join Twitter's board. I wonder if Musk decides to buy more and more shares since he won't be limited by the agreement to join the board. Based on the tweet below, it doesn't sound like they really want Musk involved.

 
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