Posted on 01/07/2021 10:57:53 AM PST by MountainWalker
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire set to likely soon become the world’s richest man, and one of the most influential voices in the world of tech entrepreneurship, continued his recent trend of criticizing Facebook with a Twitter post late Wednesday night, following the attempted insurrection by pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capitol building. Musk shared a meme suggesting the founding of Facebook ultimately led to the day’s disastrous and shameful events.
Musk, who has himself used his massive reach (he has around 42.5 million followers on Twitter) to spread misinformation to his many followers, specifically around COVID-19 and its severity, also followed that up on Thursday morning with a reply expressing a lack of surprise at WhatsApp’s new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which will make sharing data from WhatsApp users back to Facebook mandatory for all on the platform.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO also recommended that people instead use Signal, an encrypted messaging client which uses encryption by default and which is based on open-source standards. Side-note: If you do end up following Musk’s advice, you should also enable the app’s “disappearing messages” feature for an added layer of protection on both ends of the conversation.
Musk has a long history of opposing the use of Facebook, including the deletion of not just his own personal page, but also those of both Tesla and SpaceX, in 2018 during the original #deletefacebook campaign following the revelation of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
TechCrunch is cancer.
There is a little voice inside me saying this man will be President some day.
Flame away.....
Why post crap from this POS publication
He’s South African.
There is a little voice inside me saying this man will be President some day.
Flame away.....
He can not be President because was born in South Africa. Mind you I just had three power walls installed yesterday so I am contributing to him directly....
That’s okay.
We already had 1 Kenyan President....
So you’re saying he’s MORE “African-American” than obama...
Completely agree. I think Musk is a brilliant man who’s done absolutely incredible things and continues to do so. I think he’s contributed a massive amount to this country and to humanity.
And he should never, ever be President of the United States of America. No foreign born individual ever should.
Maybe he “identifies” as a natural born citizen. A “Trans-American”. Just like prez-i-muh-dent purple lips.
It is enough that he is a John Galt figure.
Why would Musk, or any other outsider, put themselves through what trump has been put through?
He lived most his life in Canada, he has Canadian citizenship, now has US citizenship.
He can certainly finance a contender, even more so than the zuck.
Elon Musk is a South African, not a natural born citizen. And while this may not matter for swamp critters it will be enforced as is useful and necessary to keep outsiders out.
Don’t have a Facebook account and am mystified as to why anybody in their right mind would post their lives on it for all the world to see.
Just plain stoopid, IMHO.
Don’t use the SIGNAL APP. Use the TELEGRAM APP.
The SIGNAL APP is monitored by Twitter.
Here’s some background:
Nov 2011
Whisper Systems is acquired by Twitter, “primarily so that Mr. Marlinspike could help the then-startup improve its security.
Marlinspike is an agent of Twitter.
From a recent headline;
“Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam”
Now why would Dorsey be prodding people over to SIGNAL?
Elon *dared* to note the peculiarity of his own Covid test results, which following sniffles, he took 4 tests. Two came back negative and two positive.
I didn’t know about the Powerwall. Looked it up. That’s pretty neat! I’ll have a look to see if there’s a charge controller for off-grid solar systems for that.
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