Posted on 04/17/2022 7:37:27 PM PDT by bitt
The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. A debate began.
Alternative coffee shops opened around town. It was entirely possible to duplicate Jacks Coffee Shop, yet no one could duplicate the business model for the free coffee. Indeed, there was something very unique about Jack’s Coffee Shop. Thus, some underlying suspicions were raised:
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account. A public-private partnership.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
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Interesting.
Twitter? The Commie spyware?
First word that came to my mind as well.
I’ve long believed that social media were government operatives. Nobody on the face of the earth has the billions in funds to create all the social media giants in their forms. If every social media was dependent upon private funds, they would be more like Rumble, Parler, and and MeWe and Truth social.
They are great information gatherers without the government having to do much work to gather all the information of the people. That’s why I don’t put anything on my social media, although I’m sure they have meta data means to get most of what they want from me without me saying a word.
That’s not coffee jack is serving - it’s kool aid 🤪
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Elon Musk, the chairman of Tesla Motors, the much-publicized electric sports-car company, is a new YGL.
Young Global Leaders--Anderson Cooper and Leonardo DiCaprio Are In The Most Exclusive Private Social Network In The World.
By Bruce Nussbaum March 18, 2008, 4:00 AM UTC
https://archive.ph/2021.04.23-182143/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-03-17/young-global-leaders-anderson-cooper-and-leonardo-dicaprio-are-in-the-most-exclusive-private-social-network-in-the-world-dot
Very interesting.
Don't also forget that Twitter has a huge market capitalization. They can eat-up shareholders capital to run their business. But that also does not mean that the deep-state can arrange crony businesses to step up and support Twitter, just like in China.
There are quite a few glowies on FR.
This is how China does it - only slightly more overtly.
Private companies run their social-media, only with even more strict control from the Chinese Government.
The USA and Chinese governance models are converging.
Wow...this would be a game changer and an eye opener.
Musicians don’t make any money from videos that are watched on YouTube. You can find practically any song that was ever recorded on YouTube. And they have no competition.
That’s a far cry from the days when songwriters got paid royalties when their songs were performed live in dance halls and concert halls where unionized musicians performed.
No way the music industry would allow this to happen, unless they were given no choice by the DS.
I happen to believe that phasing out vinyl and eventually transitioning to streaming is all part of a plan to demonetize the music industry, and make music less important to society, particularly young people with raging hormones. They want them to be obedient to the State in the digital age.
“But that also does not mean that the deep-state can arrange crony businesses to step up and support Twitter, just like in China.”
Did you mean to say “can’t” instead of “can” in the above sentence?
Yep. Soon we'll have global fascism, brought to you by the folks screaming the loudest about how Trump was fascist and how they hate fascism.
Recycled piss-water.
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