"Twitter has failed to protect its freedom of speech. Maybe it's really rolling out another SNS. ”
Eron Musk, who had been hitting Twitter until the previous few days, bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter (73,486,938 shares), investment firm Vanguard (8.8 percent), and co-founder Jack Dorsey (2.25). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Form 13G report released Monday suddenly overtook the company's largest shareholder!
As Bloomberg reported, Twitter's stock took off vertically like the Falcon 9 rocket.
At one point, it rose nearly 28 percent, and the value of Earon's stake, which closed at $2.89 billion (354.7 billion yen) on Friday, increased by $1 billion (about 122.8 billion yen) in the blink of an eye. world.
"Freedom of Speech" questionnaire
Twitter has been criticized by people (mostly conservative liberals) who want to say what they want to say because they delete accounts of users who often violate it. It was Earon, who just voted online on Twitter on the 25th of last month.
Freedom of expression is essential for a functioning democracy.
Do you think Twitter strictly adheres to this principle?
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022
"Freedom of expression is essential to democracy. Do you think Twitter adheres to this principle? ”
"The results of the questionnaire are important, think carefully and answer. ”
In total, 2 million votes were collected, of which 30% were in favor and 70% were against. NO is the vast majority (at the time of translation). Well, at the front of the questionnaire, I wrote the following to guide the answer, so this is a natural result, of course.
"Twitter is a forum for everyone to exchange ideas, but it doesn't abide by the principles of free speech, which is fundamentally shaking democracy." What do you think? ”
The aggregate results had a comment "Please buy Twitter," which was a chorus.
I'm not happy with Agrawal's new CEO
When CEO Jack Dorsey resigns and CTO Paral Agwaral becomes the new CEO, isn't it a purge? Earon posted a meaningful photo on Twitter and didn't hide his displeasure. There's no way to really be the largest shareholder...
Do you take over?
I'm curious "Is it an acquisition?" "Are ants replacing executives?" , but since the filing to the SEC is 13G, this seems unlikely. This report is issued when there is no intention to take over or exercise voting rights (e.g. a change of senior management).
In addition, an analyst at CNBC said it was a "passive stock." Of course, judging by his words and deeds, he said it is likely to turn into an infinitely aggressive passive stock. Of course, I don't feel like it's going to end in an easy way. I don't think the richest people in the world will make $1 billion at most. What would you do ...
One thing I can say with certainty is that you can't ban Earon from using Twitter unless something goes wrong, yes.