[Meekro]

One billionaire replaced another billionaire at the helm of a major company, and proceeded to restructure the company. That happens all the time, and no one hears about it or cares. The only reason this is front page news is the anticipated changes in censorship policy.

[varunprasad]

Not really. It's not just 1 billionaire replacing another billionaire.

Twitter was public and is now private. That's a huge difference.

It's not just any billionaire. It's literally the richest person in the world. That also makes a difference.

The idea that the only reason this is in front page news is changes in censorship policy does not seem to follow considering nearly every other major purchase makes it to the front news. Michael Dell taking Dell private was heavily in the front page news. There were no censorship policy concerns there.

[93po]

It's front page news because space man bad

[freemrkt8]

Space man has direct impact on my agency; I need to believe in money and wealth for him to be rich.

I really don’t get the general public deflating the value of their self agency for dedication to Elon and Co todo list. We’ll except the copious amounts of government backed nation state scrip they command. But government bad too mmmk

Public talks a game about freedom and democracy while reciting a curated set of acceptable language regarding business, and bending their agency to the idea using the environment like an open sewer is optimizing for self.

But yeah flippant sarcasm about space man covers if. Yer so smert