Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • @[email protected]English
    16•11 months ago

    What stopping someone from recreating this on mastodon or any other website?

    There is nothing special about Twitter which allowed people to track this jet.

    • @ATDAEnglish
      8•11 months ago

      The guy running it did just that.

      Musk’s actions are hilarious and pathetic. Anti censorship hero censored… Public data.

    • @telllosEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      I think it’s really about visibility. If you don’t have the same visibility as twitter, you can have this wherever, it doesn’t matter.