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> Just like economically infeasible Twitter, it has tremendous PR value

The power to shape governments to his liking is worth a lot more than what he paid for Twitter.

He got the power to shape the US government because he spent hundreds of millions to elect Trump through PACs and was Trump's single largest political donor by miles

The twitter purchase likely did little either way

The power to shape governments to his liking is exactly why we've got to demand those governments to rein him in.

New account comes in to insinuate support about government taking over Musk’s businesses. Hmm.

Ok, I will commit to having the same position, is my account too new as well?

Same here. I think there are many “elders” who would rather avoid billionaires shaping democracies into dictatorships for convenience.

Like the Biden administration which essentially forced Twitter to censor posts to their liking? Those governments we want?

Seems that is what both parties that control our government want

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack...

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