{"id":1438822,"date":"2022-04-14T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438822"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:15:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:15:02","slug":"elon-musk-trolls-saudi-royals-over-free-speech-record-after-prince-rejects-twitter-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-trolls-saudi-royals-over-free-speech-record-after-prince-rejects-twitter-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Trolls Saudi Royals over Free Speech Record After Prince Rejects Twitter Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-trolls-saudi-royals-over-free-speech-record-after-prince-rejects-twitter-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/08\/wi\/ap\/22\/38bed4_us-tesla-musk-88065-in-2013-file-photo-electric-car-maker-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-e1544465342176.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Kingdom Holding Company, the investment arm of\u00a0Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, a prince of Saudi Arabia\u2019s ruling House of Saud, rejected SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-100-percent-of-twitter-restore-free-speech\/\">bid to buy Twitter earlier today<\/a>. In response, Musk trolled the Saudi royal on the Kingdom\u2019s free speech record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that the proposed offer by Elon Musk\u00a0($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of\u00a0Twitter\u00a0given its growth prospects,\u201d said the Saudi royal, a tweet posted in English and Arabic. \u201cBeing one of the largest &#038; long-term shareholders of Twitter,\u00a0Kingdom_KHC\u00a0&#038; I reject this offer.\u201dIn response, Musk queried bin Talal on the Kingdom\u2019s stance on free speech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cInteresting. Just two questions, if I may,\u201d said Musk. \u201cHow much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly &#038; indirectly?\u00a0What are the Kingdom\u2019s views on journalistic freedom of speech?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is effectively no meaningful freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia, where criticism of the country\u2019s ruling Islamic faith is considered blasphemy and is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blasphemy_law_in_Saudi_Arabia#Selected_cases\">regularly punished with lengthy prison sentences, corporal punishment, and in some cases even death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t believe that the proposed offer by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> ($54.20) comes close to the intrinsic value of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a> given its growth prospects. <\/p>\n<p>Being one of the largest &#038; long-term shareholders of Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kingdom_KHC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kingdom_KHC<\/a> &#038; I reject this offer.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jty05oJUTk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Jty05oJUTk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XpNHUAL6UX\">pic.twitter.com\/XpNHUAL6UX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0644\u064a\u062f \u0628\u0646 \u0637\u0644\u0627\u0644 (@Alwaleed_Talal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alwaleed_Talal\/status\/1514615956986757127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Musk sent leftists and establishment pundits into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/twitters-blue-checkmark-brigade-freaks-out-over-elon-musks-buyout-plan\/\">tailspin of outrage<\/a>\u00a0this morning after offering to buy 100 percent of Twitter shares, and making it clear that his motivation was the restoration of free speech on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at TED 2022 later in the day, Musk reiterated that he \u2014 now Twitter\u2019s largest shareholder, as disclosed in March \u2014 believed free speech is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-on-twitter-free-speech-important-to-the-future-of-civilization\/\">important to the future of civilization<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA good sign as to whether there\u2019s free speech is, is someone you don\u2019t like allowed to say something you don\u2019t like? If that is the case then we have free speech,\u201d said Musk at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s damn annoying, when someone you don\u2019t like says something you don\u2019t like. That is a sign of a healthy, functioning, free speech situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingdom Holding Company, the investment arm of\u00a0Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud, a prince of Saudi Arabia\u2019s ruling House of Saud, rejected SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk\u2019s bid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}