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posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 17 2016, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the twit-tock-time-is-running-out dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

It's official. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told Financial Times that it will not be bidding on Twitter. On news that the CRM company was pulling out of the running, the social network's stocks tumbled six percent.

During an Interview with FT, Benioff said, "in this case we've walked away. It wasn't the right fit for us." Salesforce was the last big name in the running to bid on Twitter. Google and Disney had already removed themselves from potentially buying the company.

Earlier this month Reuters reported that Twitter was pushing to have a sale decision by October 27th. An incredibly aggressive plan for any company, especially one that's seen user growth nearly flatline and struggles to make a profit. Meanwhile, not everyone inside the blue bird is happy about a potential sale.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/14/salesforce-ceo-says-no-to-twitter-bid/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Monday October 17 2016, @05:54PM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Monday October 17 2016, @05:54PM (#415290) Homepage Journal

    Not sure, they may really have thought they could sell it. The thing is: they waited to long. People perceived Twitter as *the* bastion of free speech. Dissidents could publish their manifestos (a sentence at a time), people in war zone could tweet real-time happenings...

    Then the SJWs took control and started shadowbanning anyone they disagreed with [breitbart.com], or even banning their accounts [theguardian.com]. Twitter supports free speech, but only if they agree with you. This has destroyed Twitter's credibility in the eyes of anyone who is paying attention.

    The stupid thing is: it's all so unnecessary. Nobody forced anyone to read viewpoints they disagreed with - you can follow or mute whoever you want. Why did Twitter start down the road to censorship? It's just bizarre.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 17 2016, @07:33PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 17 2016, @07:33PM (#415331) Homepage Journal

    Yurp and in the fine Peasants Revolting tradition of our own site here, the people who actually care about free speech on twitter are migrating to gab.ai even though it's still in development and there's a waiting list (less than a week usually).

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @07:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @07:59PM (#415353)

      weird i never heard of gab.ai and find it hard to believe that a centrally managed 'secret' place like that really is the bastion of free speech.

      if you have to employ the guards to keep the riff raff out, you are not the bastion of free speech. you're just choosing who can speak to whichever audience.

      That places looks like no more than a special bubble for like minded people

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17 2016, @08:27PM (#415374)

        oh i see

        it's just a site that newspeaks what self-censorship is! they describe "self-censorship" as censoring others WITHOUT TELLING OTHERS you are censoring them! At least the old way told people they were being oppressed.

        Then they go on to say everyone has the ability to opt-out? Fuck that, whatever happened to asking me if I wanted to be opted-in? Newsflash -- no one needed spam filters until spam started to come in. I couldn't opt out of the spam I didn't opt in to, without first getting a spam blocker to do the opting for me.

        That place provides nothing more than a trigger protection, except for those offended by the left side of western society. It's a groupthink echo chamber for conservative and libertarian speech. I swear, both sides have flakes of the same stripe. You make fun of the college students that have an issue, call them SJWs and then build your own utopia to do the same damn things

         

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 17 2016, @08:37PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 17 2016, @08:37PM (#415385) Homepage Journal

        S'not secret, it's just not widely known. Which is good because it's still being developed and couldn't remotely handle twitter's load at the moment.

        That place provides nothing more than a trigger protection, except for those offended by the left side of western society.

        Are you really that stupid or are you being intentionally disingenuous? Getting shadowbanned or outright banned for posting anti-Hillary links/images isn't censorship now? Try criticizing a third-wave feminist. Go ahead, I'll wait... Got you banned, didn't it? Stop talking out of your ass.

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