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  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk's personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 179 points 9 months ago (26 children)

Holy shit this dude fucking lives on his plane. Like I feel guilty about the 2-3x per year I fly to see family but this fucker has flown that far already in the past week. Why? Does he not know how to do a video call?

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 151 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Ugh, I feel the same. I know the top 1% of the world or whatever emits tons and tons more CO2 per year than the other 99%, but I didn't know it was this bad. That plane is flying multiple times per day. Sure Musk is probably not in it all the time, but that doesn't matter.

Private jets should be banned all together, let's see how quickly they suddenly find out the internet exists.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 77 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Things like this are perfect reminders that we don't have to change every person on the planet, just eliminate the erronneous emissions.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Eliminate the erroneous emissions. Interesting take on the ol' "eat the rich." I like it!

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