Unhinged Twitter Board Adopts ‘Poison Pill’ Stop Elon Musk and Free Speech

UPDATE: Florida Gov. DeSantis Vows To Hold Twitter Board Members ‘Accountable’ For Activating ‘Poison Pill’ On Elon Musk.

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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 19, 2022

The left cannot permit the free exchange of ideas because their failed ideas cannot stand up to scrutiny and challenge.

Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced.

Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.

If speech that offends a group is outlawed, that group has absolute power, and a free society is destroyed. A group that cannot be criticized cannot be opposed. It can work its will no matter what it is, and no one will be able to say anything to stop it.

Inoffensive speech needs no protection. The First Amendment was developed precisely in order to protect speech that was offensive to some, in order to prevent those who had power from claiming they were offended by speech opposing them and silencing the powerless.

A free society is by its nature one in which people put up with others being uncivil and offensive. The alternative is a quiet authoritarian society in which only one opinion is allowed and the others are silenced, and ultimately sent to the camps.

And just like that Elon Musk proved the system is rigged.

— thebradfordfile (@thebradfordfile) April 15, 2022

If Elon Musk does nothing else, he already won. All this freaking out, crying, screaming on social media and scrambling to out buy stock, just because someone who believes in free speech has a stake in the company, is deeply telling. And it all happened out in the open.

— Stephanie (@StephHoover8) April 14, 2022

Twitter board adopts so-called ‘poison pill’ plan to block Musk from taking platform private

The plan was adopted by Twitter’s board of directors

By Just the News, April 15, 2022 – 1:09pm

Twitter’s board of directors on Thursday unanimously adopted a plan Friday to stop Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s plan to take private the social media company

Under the plan, which is also referred to as a “poison pill”, shareholders’ rights will become exercisable if an entity, person or group acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more of Twitter’s outstanding common stock in a transaction not approved by the board,” according to Fox News.

The board says the plan “is intended to enable all shareholders to realize the full value of their investment in Twitter” and will “reduce the likelihood that any entity, person or group gains control of Twitter through open market accumulation without paying all shareholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the Board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interests of shareholders,” the news outlet also reports.

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