On Musk’s takeover of twitter

Dave Levy
5 min readNov 4, 2022
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There’s two stories here, or maybe more, the first is about Musk, his money and his motives, the second is about free speech to which I add a third, the role of technology and the continued efforts of the open web to survive.

The deal

Wikipedia, has a very concise history of the story of the deal, detailing Musk’s pre-offer purchases, the on again, off again negotiations to buy…

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Dave Levy

Brit, Londoner, economist, Labour, privacy, cybersecurity, traveller, father - mainly writing about UK politics & IT, https://linktr.ee/davelevy