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> After the past few weeks, can you imagine the public outcry if regulators tried imposing any limits at all?

Au contraire this makes it much harder for him to use it to manipulate the market. It would be like Bloomberg manipulating his other company stock.

Maybe he just wants to use the userbase to turn it to a payments platform

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More likely, use it as a political platform.

$46 Billion dollars worth? Does not seem likely.

US gov't has already fronted him more than 10% of that. There's plenty more where that came from. And, not even just the US!

The whole takeover would have been much more fun if he had announced that his offer would drop by 1% for each day they took to accept it.

What do you mean by the US gov't has fronted him more than $4 billion?

It appears they believe that SpaceX is Musk's personal slush fund.

Prove it's not.

Demonstrate its use as such. Extraordinary claims, etc.

The level of scrutiny on SpaceX is incredible, and rightly so. Any unethical conduct or illegal money shuffling would be caught out quickly.

SpaceX is not a public company. All public information indicates Musk has retained majority control. "Unethical conduct" and "illegal money shuffling" are undefined terms: it is his company, and he can spend its money however he chooses, subject only to whatever private terms he has arranged with private shareholders.

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