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CWO4 Terrence Clark
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Old enough to recall the Skokie Nazis and descrating the Stars and Stripes found to be free speech. Don't agree with either opinion, or a lot of others, but have reverence for the 1st ammendment.
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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you my friend and sister-in-Christ Sgt (Join to see) for posting the perspective from usatoday.com
On his first day after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk fired 'Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, .... He had accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform."

I am very thankful that Elon Musk took over Twitter {I don't own a twitter account]

Elon Musk fires Twitter executives, promises overhaul after taking over platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyntc3EYe-o

Background from {[https://www.oann.com/tech/as-elon-musk-takes/]}
Musk appeared to have joined the company’s Slack channel by Friday, according to a screenshot seen by Reuters.
Musk also tweeted on Friday that Twitter will form a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” and that no major decisions on moderation or account reinstatements will be made before it convenes.
Despite an appeal to advertisers on Thursday that he hoped to make Twitter “the most respected advertising platform in the world,” at least one major automaker – GM – said it temporarily paused its advertising and was working to “understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership.”
Employees also continued to fret about the future of their jobs. Fewer than 10% of 266 Twitter employees who participated in a poll on messaging app Blind expected to still have their jobs in three months. Blind allows employees to air grievances anonymously after they sign up with corporate emails.

Musk fired Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, according to people familiar with the matter. He had accused them of misleading him and Twitter investors over the number of fake accounts on the platform.
Agrawal and Segal were in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters when the deal closed and were escorted out, the sources added.
Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, plans to become Twitter’s interim CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter and following an earlier report by Reuters. Musk also plans to scrap permanent bans on users, Bloomberg said, citing a person familiar with the matter.

Twitter, Musk and the executives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

‘CHIEF TWIT’

Before closing the deal, Musk walked into Twitter’s headquarters on Wednesday with a big grin and a porcelain sink, subsequently tweeting “let that sink in.” He changed his Twitter profile description to “Chief Twit.”
European regulators also reiterated past warnings that, under Musk’s leadership, Twitter must still abide by the region’s Digital Services Act, which levies hefty fines on companies if they do not control illegal content.
“In Europe, the bird will fly by our EU rules,” EU industry chief Thierry Breton tweeted on Friday morning.

European Parliament lawmaker and civil rights proponent Patrick Breyer suggested people look for alternatives where privacy is a priority.
“Twitter already knows our personalities dangerously well due to its pervasive surveillance of our every click. Now this knowledge will be falling into Musk’s hands.”
Musk has indicated he sees Twitter as a foundation for creating a “super app” that offers everything from money transfers to shopping and ride-hailing.
But Twitter is struggling to engage its most active users who are vital to the business. These “heavy tweeters” account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue.
Musk will face a challenge building revenue “given that the controversial opinions he appears to want to give more of a free rein to are often unpalatable to advertisers,” said Hargreaves Lansdown analyst Susannah Streeter.
As news of the deal spread, some Twitter users were quick to flag their willingness to walk away.
“I will be happy to leave in a heartbeat if Musk, well, acts as we all expect him to,” said a user with the 'mustlovedogsxo account.'
(Reporting by Sheila Dang in Dallas; additional reporting by David Shepardson and Katie Paul; Editing by Kenneth Li, Nick Zieminski, Deepa Babington and Jacqueline Wong)"


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