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.
Malone doesn’t have any evidence to support any of this, he just made it up.
Ping
Malone has apparently given up doing research consulting and spends his time exclusively in the social media world.
He got into a snit with the two co-authors of the 1989 paper that is his claim to fame. He thinks that he has been screwed out of royalties from patents based on his discovery. An odd complaint if he thinks that the vaccines based on it are dangerous.
It’s hard to know what he really thinks since a lot of what he is doing is aimed at social media. If he really believed what he’s saying he’d be writing for the peer reviewed medical journals that he’s certainly qualified to write for. I think that the reason he doesn’t is significant.
Here’s an interesting history that features Malone:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
I like Musk, but Musk is compromised because of his Chinese Investments.
The likelihood that he won’t censor twitter for China is low.
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.
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I do the same. I have a Twitter account but I rarely post. Having an account is very useful because it allows you to “follow” people who have interesting things to say. About lots more than only politics. This is like having bookmarks on Chrome or Brave.
I will never be banned, because I am there to get useful info at Twitter. For example, on low carb diets. And as I said, I rarely post. Obviously, I am not getting into tangles or debates there. Same as you.
What I have read is that politics is a small fraction at Twitter. That what is largest, is sportsball talk. IOW just more internet masturbation. For the women, fashions, hair and makeup. Prolly family and rearing children too.
Personally I use many more than two gender descriptors. Man, woman, faggot and dyke.
It has been this way since biblical times.
The article is just conjecture.
Surely there’s prior art for “X.”
Probably true. But the risk to me that Musk wants a database to sell future products is less immediate that the risk Twitter provides this afternoon by spreading communism.
Also, any risks Muck gains by owning twitter already are in the hands of the current owners.
He knows a whole more about vaccines then you do in your pinky. I have people in my circle who died from it. You probably killed a few yourself
So Amazon would have a viable competitor , okay lets see how that works and what Musk will do, but Musk would want to appeal to all. Not just a leftist liberal base, so he will change things to bring back alternative thinking and ideologies because he needs the big numbers for it all to work.
So your either free to use Twitter or not, just as you are with Amazon. If Musk offers a alternative to me using Amazon then I will take it and shut my Amazon account down.
“Neither is Malone.......In fact quite the opposite. mRNA “vaccine” ring a bell?”
Dr. Malone is a LOUD VOICE against the Wuhan Flu Vax. He is the pioneer of RESEARCH into that tech and has been a VOCAL advocate AGAINST its use against the Wuhan Flu. Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge would know this.
Obviously, YOU lack this even rudimentary level of knowledge but, like most FOOLS it didn’t stop you from spouting off in your IGNORANCE.
ya that was why i asked..
Says it all
“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.”
“The Malone worshippers will follow him anywhere, I guess.”
Nobody is worshipping Malone. He is saying anyone who took the government shot is a fool - and he’s right.
So if you are one of the morons that complied, then listening to Malone must be very humiliating. I can eee why you would hate him.
I’m a pureblood, so I have no problem hearing what he has to say.
Musk seeking to leapfrog Torba and his Gab platform. Gab is sporting it’s own pay service, shopping — the stated goal is to become a standalone, parallel economy to the greatest extent possible.
I used to be on twitter.
On my phone whiling away the hours with insomnia.
I was suspended for a week for speaking some truth about China.
That surprised me.
Got back on and a few weeks later posted some truth about vaccines.
Funny, it was stuff that was well known.
So they kicked me off for good.
So glad...
Amazing what Musk has planned for the platform.
All the reasons I don’t have anything to do with Amazon.
My local Walmart tried to stop the grocery pickup by marking popular items as Out of Stock while those items were actually in the store. Grocery pickup was great for me while my ankle was healing and I didn’t have to walk that huge store or any other store since all of them here did it. The manager thought that forcing people back into the store would increase sales, but it did the opposite. People just shopped the other stores.
I’m able to walk the store better now but if I need a huge amount of groceries, I let them shop the bulk of it. I go in to pick out my produce and meat and go to the pickup parking area to let them bring the rest. I time it so that I can do both at the same trip.
My ankle needs the exercise but too much at one time takes about two days to stop hurting.
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