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Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims (gizmodo.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • 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] 8 points 9 months ago

If he had really cared about the jet tracking thing, he wouldn't have burned $44b buying twitter to handle it. He just would have bribed / lobbied politicians to put a "public safety" exemption into effect for public data about flights. Make it so that private jets aren't available in the public feeds / databases. Getting a law like that passed would have cost him tens of millions rather than tens of billions.