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Mehdi Farooq,CFA's avatar

Take my money - I am in

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I agree with a lot of your ideas, but I think you're missing the bigger point of what Elon would be trying to do. His primary purpose is to create a free speech platform. His other proposals seem to serve that one foundational idea, and I think he is correct that it is the most important one. If he can succeed in that lofty goal, it will bring untold opportunities moving forward. Censorship is a massive issue for half of the free world. It has led to attempts to build other platforms with varying success and some spectacular failures because they lack the network effects that first movers like Twitter already have. If Elon could get the free speech part right, Twitter will be more attractive for every person, idea, and piece of content on the internet. Censorship issues are many people's number one complaint on Facebook and Youtube as well. If Twitter is the place that solves the dilemma, opens the algorithm, uses data more responibly, etc, why not create a video platform to take on Youtube? Why not create the Facebook Messenger killer? Twitter could take all of it and more. I'd switch ever piece of my internet life to a platform that held on to those ideals and already had the network effects that the new platforms lack. I think you and Elon are both understating the possibilities ahead.

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