I think Elon had a good idea of what he was buying. He may not have realized to the degree of corruption that Twitter was involved in, but he had an idea as we all did.
He was probably better informed than we were, however.
The second sentence:
“South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, soon to be the vice-presidential candidate for the DeSantis-Noem 2024 ticket, has also called TikTok a national security threat and banned it in the state.”
What, did I miss something?
“The answer is not about dog and cat videos”
Then, it’s probably not a question worth answering. If anything, we need more dog and cat videos.
Ping!!
Elon didn’t buy a social media platform, he bought a crime scene.
Julie Kelly:
Elon Musk has fired more FBI agents than Bill Barr ever did.
(That’s ‘one’ for those counting at home)
To put it in brutally honest terms, The United States Dept of Homeland Security is the operating system running in the background of Twitter.You can debate whether Elon Musk honestly didn’t know all this before purchasing Twitter from his good friend Jack Dorsey, and/or what the scenario of owner/operator motive actually is. Decide for yourself.
For me, I feel confident that all of the conflicting and odd datapoints only reconcile in one direction. DHS controls Twitter.
Tiktok reportedly sends all of a phone users keystrokes to China.
ALL of them.
Personally, I think he knows exactly what he got, and he is in the slow process of both cleaning it up and showing the world what he has discovered.
To paraphrase Nanzi Pelosi, “He had to buy the company to find out what’s in it.”
Imagine, if you will, a billionaire of significant influence in the world and nation, buying a ready-made blackmail dump—no more sneaking in back alleys with members of the “intel community” like in the old days! It’s all right at his fingertips now, cash on the barrelhead. Loved the part where he feigned trying to get out of the deal until they forced him to buy it in spite of their inflated valuation. If only they had realized where the real value lay.
Looks like bait and switch.
To the title, I think Elon Musk followed the smoke to find the fire.
American companies do not have to submit their inner workings to the government. Twitter apparently did, and that has gotten them in trouble since it’s illegal. China is a totally different story, the companies have to give the Chinese military oversight of their inner workings.
So yes, TikTok probably is a national security risk, right along with all those Chinese police stations popping up in other places like New York city!
Noem and Hogan are banning the app on government phones. Too late.
An app that can be used to influence folks, big effin’ deal.
An app that can be used as a portal to get into emails, text messages, photos, or any other program that the government employee accesses. during the course of their day, via their phone.
And then use that same access to get into a computer.
Probably nothing more than one of those key-logging programs or a very sneaky spyware program. Oblivious to all as they try to learn the next TikTok dance.
No need to develop a source or traitor when all you have to do is look at what they’re doing on their phone or talking to someone.
Funny, Pres Trump brought all of this us up and no one cared.