So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

His legal team sent Twitter a letter saying he was pulling out of the deal. Twitter sued him. A court case was scheduled.

Why would Musk try to pull out of the deal (firstly by using the level of bots on the site as a reason, then trying to use revelations from a whistleblower), let the case get a week or two from trial, and then proceed with the deal for the same price anyway? And regardless of how much money he could throw at his lawyers, they were already losing motions and cases they had put forth to the judge pre-trial, and most legal experts agreed he was likely to lose.

As for thinking it was just a pump and dump scheme, yeah, I did at the start when he had only bought a percentage of shares. I was wrong. Have I commented about Musk before the Twitter thing? I'm not sure. The Boards search function is sh*te so can't really search, but not sure what you think it does or doesn't prove. The most I ever really paid attention to him before is all the cameos in TV and films he does, and naming his child that stupid name.

But as for your comment about "ultra defensive coping mechanism". I'm still on Twitter. I'll still keep using it as I always have, at least for the foreseeable.

You're trying to portray me as something I'm not, and trying to spout bullsh*t about "Liberal media" and the like.

So how about we leave the personal stuff aside, and break this down to it's simplest form; Was Twitter suing Musk to force him to complete the agreed contract and make sure he bought Twitter for the agreed price?

You know he's not going to go out with you?

Will be interesting to see how he plans to cover the debt repayments

What are Musk’s competencies?

To some people, 'freedom of speech' means the freedom to say 'nígger'. That's how base they are. If Musk wants his investment to pay off, he's going to need to have the platform making money, and that means having advertisers. And big advertisers are risk averse. If Twitter becomes free speech in the way 4Chan is free speech, then advertisers are going to walk. So, if Must wants the venture to pay, he's still going to need to have content guidelines in place.

I think the problem is that you can't reign in these people who want to create that kind of toxic atmosphere. They don't have the intellect to moderate what they are saying. How many of them have been banned from here - quite a few. Even on this forum, where they were given extreme latitude, they still got chucked because they didn't have the intellect to moderate themselves. So the advertisers, who want to make money by selling their products to a wide variety of consumers, are guaranteed to bail. Absolutely no doubt about that.

I was under the impression the Twitter board accepted his $44B offer, he decided he wasn't going to go through with it, and now after the ball has gotten rolling for the court case he has changed his mind and decided to buy at the originally agreed price. Does Brutestock have this arseways or is it me?

Being a moderator for Twitter must be a bit of a task right now with so many people testing the water to see if they'll catch a ban.

That'd be an interesting statistic. I'll bet there's a massive influx of new accounts immediately breaking the rules. A mix of people trying to prove Musk is a hypocrite over his talks of unmoderated free speech and people hoping Musk is their saviour and they can get away with it.

At least the mods can get a nice bit of overtime before they go looking for new jobs.