NYT should tell what abut the outcome of the match of David versus Goliath.
David picked up five smooth stones. Musk apparently has a couple.
“Apple is a major source of ad dollars for Twitter. It was the biggest advertiser on the platform in the year’s first quarter, spending $48 million...”
Apple has no obligation, moral, ethical or legal to continue advertising on Twitter.
>> bombastically broader terms, calling it “a battle for the future of civilization.”
‘bombastically’ used in a pejorative way — unlike the well-received hyperbolic threats of the ‘climate change’
He boned Lockheed, ULA and Boeing in the rocket biz with a vehicle that is without dispute now the world leader.
He boned GM, Ford and all of Japan & Germany with the most successful new motor/fuel technology introduction in 100 years.
His satellite constellation is already doing well in a space that nobody in the telecom biz thought could ever work after the failure of Globalstar and Iridium.
The fading, aging has been operation known as the rotting Apple should be very, very nervous.
NYT is not an independent misinformation source.
All the lib tw**s, uh tweeters would rather it be destroyed than allow actual factual conversations and opposing view points to be presented. They can phu cough!
Apple Twitter Tesla Amazon Google Facebook and Microsoft are not real companies. They are NGOs. Which is to say they are supported by our federal government like Freddy Mac or Fanny Mae. But they are not obeying the laws or restrictions of a government department. They are outside the government but they are controlled by the government. They have grown without profits and they have not had the constraints of other companies because our government loved their spying capability. They loved their tracking of people and the satellites of Spacex which produces a communications network everywhere in the world even over Russia, even over China. These companies allow our swamp to spy on us and the world without “breaking the law”. They are as illegal as those crossing the Reo Grande.
David won.
Here’s the real message from this:
1. Public debate has moved completely to online, and social media is where about 99.9% of it happens.
2. Since the First Amendment prevents government from interfering with free speech, the job has been outsourced to the Democrat MAGMA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon).
3. As private companies they can censor and do whatever they want without regard to the First Amendment.
4. To encourage and reward them for doing whatever the government asks, the MAGMA coalition is given special treatment, little regulatory oversight, and basically a free hand.
This is what’s going on in China, just as it is in the US. The CCP doesn’t want a certain feature that permits free speech, so it’s partner, Apple, disables it - problem solved. Everyone wins - except the poor forgotten citizen.
I’d wager both Apple and Google (and Xi) have deduced that ultimately Musk is bound to leverage Twitter and Starlink into basically a new version of the Internet (Muskverse?), which will largely or completely exclude Apple and Google (and probably Microsoft). Ultimately they have to kill him but in the meantime I would be surprised if they jump right to the end game and ban the Twitter app, which would only speed up the development of Muskverse.
I don’t believe they could block browser access to Twitter in any case. Twitter is addictive and people would use a sub-optimal browser interface rather than give it up. But on the other hand Apple is essentially a tool of the CCP, and the Chinese masters could decide to sacrifice the whole shooting match if necessary to forestall Muskverse.
11h Amanda Marcotte says the only way to save Twitter is for the government to buy and run it
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/11/29/amanda-marcotte-says-the-only-way-to-save-twitter-is-for-the-government-to-buy-and-run-it/ 11:02 PM · Nov 29, 2022
I love Elon. ❤❤❤