Shitposting Elon Musk fans on Twitter jumped on Bezos’s remarks, pointing out that many (most?) of the goods sold by Amazon are made in China. Musk is extremely good at navigating this kind of Outcome in this regard is complexity in China for Tesla, ratherīut we’ll see. My own answer to this question is probably not. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit This seems like a complicated set of issues for him to navigate.īut soon he will own the company, and then I guess he’ll navigate Pretty explicit pressure to censor critics of China on Twitter. Twitter is potentially his problem, and Tesla’s, and he might face If he owns Twitter, criticism of China on Tesla is an American business withĭeep commercial ties to China, where it makes cars, sellsĬars and buys parts it is run by Elon Musk and makes up theīulk of his net worth. Other Americanīusinesses with lots of commercial ties to China - Hollywood, basketball, etc. - often do not tolerateĬriticism of China, to avoid angering its government andĮndangering their businesses. To host criticism of the Chinese government. The idea is that Twitter has no particular commercial ties toĬhina (where it has been banned since 2009), so it is free Jeff Bezos pondered, on Twitter, whether the government ofĬhina will gain leverage over Twitter because Musk is buying it. Speech” in mostly standard American billionaire terms. Still I worry a little that Musk seems to conceive of “free Matt Levine, in his Money Stuff column at Bloomberg, after running through a bunch of scenarios in which the deal might not go through: Matt Levine on Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal ★
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