Posted on 01/22/2021 12:55:19 AM PST by wardaddy
Charlie KirkonJanuary 21, 2021 PUBLIC MEMORANDUM
TO: Elon Musk; Founder of Tesla, Inc., and SpaceX FROM: Charlie Kirk; Founder of Turning Point USA CC: Western Civilization DATE: January 21, 2021 SUBJECT: Saving us.
The events of January 6th in nation’s capital provided the excuse that the big tech companies had been waiting for in order to drop a very Draconian sword across the throat of free and open communication in our country and, by extension, much of the Western World.
Making sanctimonious claims of “protecting public safety” and “stopping threats of violence,” Twitter, Amazon, Google, and Apple, along with others, have launched a sort of Big Tech “putsch” to wipe out any voice that supports America’s first principles, limited government, free markets, and individual liberty. Twitter’s ban of former-President Trump is only the most publicized example. I know firsthand of countless people who have been de-platformed, many of whom are not even terribly political.
Your ambitions transcend simply wanting to make a profit (although, there is nothing wrong with profits). I’ve followed your career since about 2012, and my read of you as an individual suggests to me that promoting individual liberty is something in which you strongly believe. I’ve also followed you recently, and I know that you have spoken out about the difference between Big Tech censoring “speech they hate” versus censoring actual “hate speech.”
While there are doubtless millions of people who think of you as the “electric car guy,” it is clear you are much more than that. Your efforts to transition to sustainable energy that is available to the masses and make possible the colonization of outer space, prove that you have a desire to benefit all of humanity. Your ambitions transcend simply wanting to make a profit (although, there is nothing wrong with profits).
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How does one skirt federally regulated communication networks — legally?
One is already being built by MIT.
Great idea. I hope Musk takes the challenge.
He’s already got thousands of communication satellites orbiting as we speak.
I’ve always advocated that we roll back our wonderful World Wide Web. Back to the days of DOS, BBS services, and sysops. I spent 20 years in IT, and the Internet, in the end, has been a Satanic scourge.
>> I spent 20 years in IT
My spending sadly exceeds 30 years...
Give me a moment to recall my Compuserve acct # — 72...
Exactly
I think Musk is rolling out the new line of elect cars made in China, I believe. Correct me if I’m wrong.
I think Musk is rolling out the new line of elect cars made in China, I believe. Correct me if I’m wrong.
I agree but I wonder if he’d want to risk his real love with Tesla. You know the left would try to destroy him for merely giving people a freedom of speech platform.
That’s true
He and his buddy Thiele also from PayPal
It’s a start
It’s more important to me right now than either killing or jettisoning the GOPe
I am very excited about Starnet.
An orbiting net of ‘stars’.
Cell towers— antiques.
WIFI — antique.
The entire world a hotspot.
And Elon Musk hates censorship. We should encourage him.
Maybe we could promise to support a military contract that incentivizes Starnet to assist free speech havens (at some post-Biden point), one that gives him free political leverage to insist on free speech, but a contract that also destroys future Starnet owners who attack free speech involving politics and history.
Heck, I would like to put someone next to Benjamin Franklin on hundreds (in a batch of currency) if he rescues freedom of speech online.
That’s true
He and his buddy Thiele also from PayPal
It’s a start
It’s more important to me right now than either killing or jettisoning the GOPe
He’d build it, patent it, market it to consumers with a EULA and then you’d have a new boss... just like the old boss.
People never learn.
Starlink
Dominion voting machines were hooked up to the internet. Did Google assist in the fraud?
His Starlink satellite internet service is being deployed, and should be available across the US by end of year.
Bring back Compuserv.
Yes.
And, with a large alternet delivery system, the Internet becomes more robust and capable of real, uncensored competition.
It wouldn’t matter.
The internet isn’t the problem, the creeps running some of the popular websites are.
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