He was ousted as CEO in 2017 but remained on the BOD. He was ousted from that position too in 2018. Like any private citizen, he has a right to freedom of speech but the company he founded decided years ago that it no longer wanted to be associated with him because his speech was harming sales.
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Elon & Twitter
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One way to look at the job is you’re being paid -- quite a lot -- not to publicly go off on this and a host of other tangents.
None of us give up the right to free speech when we are hired, but the employer has expectations regarding our behavior and there can be consequences for not meeting those. The stockholders are his employers.
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
I’m surprised no one has coined the new term in reference to customers as “stakeholders” of a state directed (but not owned) enterprise yet.
Slackin’!
Slackin’!
JRP3
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Since it correlates with what people on this very forum have said, yes I think you can trust the "clickbait headline" and the claims. Yesterday I stopped at a friend's house and he said "Still driving the white supremacist car?" Joking of course, he's also a TSLA holder, but that sentiment is out there and it's not a good look.
"can't use the n-word in conference calls" isn't exactly a great example of "cancel culture"... more like common sense/ decency/ having a brain
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
Also notes that Twitter Blue is great as they have better comments.
He doesn't think that Twitter can compete with YouTube in the next 5 years. He later says it is impossible in the next 10 years. However, I'm not sure he is factoring in:
- Existing creators will load to both and people might end up staying on Twitter
- New creators may only bother with Twitter and they might do better as they are fresh and people prefer staying on Twitter
It was a conspiracy. They set him up and forced him to say it! Oh, I am a victim! "Antiracism is racism..."
And so on.
ElectricIAC
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I don’t doubt that there are opportunist vultures who will take anything, often deliberately out of context and twist it to grift or blackmail people more successful than them.
JRP3
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Funny how only certain types of people get "tricked" into saying racist things...
I don’t know if being anti-human and Pro-bot is racist, but it certainly puts you in the non humanitarian camp. When he says 8 billion people on the planet is not enough and we desperately need more population, he is just saying we need more people of a certain type. I believe Elon is just a racist kickstarter huckster. His right wing new fans have the excuse of waiting for a cyberduck that will never come. Who is Tesla‘s core market now, I don’t know. They don’t advertise but use plenty of internet shills to market his mission
ElectricIAC
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ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
I know you don’t mean the Identitarian hucksters who do it with impunity since they’re protected by the MSM.
This free speech thing is about to get expensive, eh?
ElectricIAC
Good-Natured Rascal
The sense I have gotten over the past year is that Tesla is seriously cheapening their models, gutting features and claiming that it's for certain reasons (it's not). Many of the legacy carmakers, in my opinion, have caught up. And they add quality, reliability and real luxury.
Great that Twitter is empowering Mr. Beast.
I have long wondered how much collective human time that guy has wasted. But... at least he’s not political. Corroding culture in an entirely different way.
Because you don't have the CEOs of these other companies making fools of themselves on Twitter and allowing Nazis back on the platform.
I think more people will be doing just that. TMC has gotten way too moderated in favor of Twitter's CEO.
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