Posted on 10/16/2022 6:45:13 PM PDT by datura
So, why does Elon Musk want Twitter so badly? Is it because he is such a big free speech advocate, that he wants to “save the world, ” save us all from BIG TECH?
Why does Elon Musk care so much about the number of bot accounts? Is it because he truly wants to ferret out foreign influences?
Why does Elon Musk want to reverse the bans on people’s accounts? Is it because he really cares about scientists, and conservatives ability to interact on the social media app?
The answer of course, is no to all these questions.
“We” are being manipulated into the vision of Elon being the free speech shield-bearer - but what has Musk revealed recently as to his true motivations for wanting Twitter.
Musk’s vision for Twitter is “one stop shopping.” E-commerce. He intends to bring social media, banking, auto loans, Amazon type buying, insurance, paying loans and utility bills, medical insurance, service estimates, you name it- under the umbrella of Twitter. Everything you do, buy, need - could be bought on the Twitter website. This is about power and money.
Why does he care about bot accounts? Because what he is buying is access to you, to me, to each and everyone of us on Twitter now or on Twitter in the future. He wants to know the exact number of warm bodies to sell to his investors. Remember - with the purchase of Twitter, he will have a client base maybe in the billions - before he even launches a single product! That client base includes some of the most influential, wealthy and educated people on the planet.
So, why is this such a bad thing?
Let’s go back to free speech.
What happens if you are rude, share porn, use inappropriate language or only use binary gender descriptors? What happens if you believe that Russia should take over Ukraine? What happens if you are just a contrarian or a “science denier.” What if you don’t believe in gay marriage or do believe in gay marriage? Who knows what the societal drivers in the future will be? Who knows what the next “thing” will be.
Because it is all good now to think that Twitter won’t change, evolve into something new and unknown. But the truth is that social media platforms morph into new identities as soon as new apps, technologies and even cultural political ideologies change.
Musk’s bigger plan for Twitter is to turn it into a “super app” that “acts as an operating system for people’s digital lives.”
Musk recently stated at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting
“It’s a pretty grand vision. And obviously that could be started from scratch, But I think Twitter would help accelerate that by three to five years.”
(A little history - When Elon Musk first created Paypal, he called it “X”. Musk recently bought back the rights to use the name X from Paypal and has openly discussed the e-commerce/Twitter site using that name. )
Having a super app for commerce and social media means that the risk of getting kicked off Twitter becomes not just a question of free speech and censorship, but of financial risk to each and every person who relies of Twitter as a complete, one-stop e-commerce app.
All it would take is the tiniest pressure or threat of removing someone’s ability to pay a bill or collect a debt and the need to censor would go away as self- censorship would become de-rigueur. The amount of power such a corporation would hold over individuals, industries, even whole nations would be enormous.
Full stop - integrating a huge “social media” platform - in this case the most influential social media company in the world, with a complete e-commerce and financial services app is a very bad idea.
Just because a corporation “can” create such an entity, doesn’t necessarily mean it “should.” Once upon a time, long long ago, we had anti-trust legislation and a justice department that would enforce it. That now seems so anachronistic. Our federal government and Justice department seems to have become just another tool, a plaything, of large transnational corporate interests.
Lots of company’s use Twitter to get information about what they do out to the public,not just political.
Musk is “no savior” for defending freedom of speech for conservatives and President Trump supporters?
And you are?
Don't make me laugh.
The Chinese owned “WeChat” does all that.
And its hugely successful.
Of course Musk will be successful if he takes over Twitter and changes it.
Twitter is a joke right now with very little to no profits.
With the deplatforming, website cancellations, bank account/credit card cancellations, etc going on against conservatives, anybody with the financial wherewithal to recreate those businesses embracing conservatives, they would see a booming and exclusive business opportunity.
Of course he doesn't.
He is just the normal far left crazies who are losing their minds over Musk taking over Twitter.
These clowns just love shutting down conservative voices.
I believe that Dr Malone invented the mRNA technology.
I don’t think that he intended it to be used for vaccines, the way that it was.
He has been decrying the vaccines and mandates since early on.⁶
“Musk is no savior - just the opposite.”
After what I’ve seen from Twitter and ALL of the other major tech companies, I’m certainly willing to roll the dice with Musk.
Kind of like the 1980 and 2016 elections. Sure there was the candidate that represented the ‘status quo’, but there was also another candidate that promised huge changes. When things get SO BAD in tech as it is now...any change, ANY change, can only make things better, as this conservative is sick of being sent to the Internet Ghettos to try to get truthful news.
Also note that this clown does not present ANY SOLUTIONS to fix the problems as they are today, instead he acts like Jimmy Carter and Skunk Cabbage claiming that their Republican opponent is a War Mongering MONSTER.
That's China. Americans would be wary of something like that. We are sort of paranoid.
I don’t “use” Twitter, but I certainly get a lot of information off of it on different subjects. I don’t get into ideological battles with leftist morons, and Twitter has enough of them.
Lots of good info on there as well, but I get what you mean.
I just don’t stoop to their level.
Nope.
Been using it for over 3 years.
Its very popular in America as well, especially among Asians Americans.
Malone finds an entirely new field in which to sow the seeds of fear porn. He does know his audience.
“Musk is no savior - just the opposite”.
You are correct:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1cuxrwS0Uk
"I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!"
— (serial killer) Carl Panzram
Oh goodie. Malone is wrong about the vaccine making bank on those 15 minutes of fame. Now branching out to this.
The Malone worshippers will follow him anywhere, I guess.
I’m sure I’ll have to say three hail Malones for my blasphemy.
However it was once a place to quickly use to locate news sources. Not so much anymore as there's everybody claiming they're a news source now. Podcasts and you-tube now has anybody posting their video stuff and a lot is just plain junk.
I say let Musk do his thing with it and we'll see how it rolls. He certainly can't hurt it.
I don’t think Malone has an audience. I think he has apostles. I won’t be surprised when he offers kool aid and his disciples around here drink it and suddenly disappear.
“I believe that Dr Malone invented the mRNA technology.”
Malone discovered that if you wrap mRNA in fat that it will survive in the bloodstream long enough to be absorbed by cells. It’s one of many discoveries needed to arrive at mRNA drugs. He had two coauthors on his 1989 paper.
“The tangled history of mRNA vaccines”:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
I’ve been saying just this since last June
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4071841/posts?page=57#57
Go to the link in the reply to hear it in Musk’s own words
“or only use binary gender descriptors”
This writer is an idiot
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