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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (21 children)

The didn't buy Twitter for a profit.

He bought Twitter to destroy it because big free horizontal communication platforms are bad for billionaires.

He can't just close it, so he just destroy it little by little until it is no more.

The same way conservative groups bought Tumblr because it was too sexual liberating for their conservative views.

[–] notatoad@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (3 children)

he offered to buy twitter for a joke, and he actually did buy twitter because a court forced him to. not because this was some grand plan to accomplish anything - he literally spent months in court arguing that he shouldn't have to buy twitter, and he lost. that's the only reason he owns twitter now.

[–] penguin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Yeah, he owns it because he's a dumbass and he's running it into the ground like a dumbass

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