Elon Musk buys Twitter for $44 billion

[ClaytonB]

Be prepared for the rollout of the Muskown. That is a smartphone developed and sold for free speech. Costs a fraction of Apple and the service is supplied via satellite totally eliminating the middle pronouns. Smartphones for a fraction of the cost. No huge monthly payments. Okay maybe not the "Muskown" maybe the Twitter phone. Why not? Twitter goes telecommunications.

Hmm, actually, Twitter could do a phone. Twitter phone over Starlink. Maybe Musk has more plans than just buying Twitter as a billionaire ego play...

 

[acptulsa]

 

[CaptUSA]

 

[devil21]

The same man who heads up a company devoted to installing mind-reading and mind-control devices into people's brains is most certainly a strong advocate of individual thought and free speech

Clown World exists everywhere, apparently even on RPF.

 

[acptulsa]

The same man who heads up a company devoted to installing mind-reading and mind-control devices into people's brains is most certainly a strong advocate of individual thought and free speech

Clown World exists everywhere, apparently even on RPF.

This is news? You don't remember Trump Mania?

At least he's doing a much better job of trolling the woke than Trump ever did. He has a vocabulary and is actually funny.

 

[Occam's Banana]

 

[CaptUSA]

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1518985404082315271

 

[TheTexan]

It's nice for freedom to get a win for a change.

#feelsgoodman

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Media Reacts To Elon Musk - Part of the Problem #851
On this episode of Part Of The Problem Dave and Robbie take a look at the way the Corporate Media has responded to Elon Musk and Twitter coming to an agreement about the purchase of the platform. This episode was recorded on 4.27.22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbHy8fI0Sjk

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[devil21]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/elon-musk-authenticate-all-real-humans/index.html

As the public combs through Elon Musk’s Twitter (TWTR) feed for clues on how the billionaire entrepreneur intends to run the social media platform he’s buying for $44 billion, one mysterious line stands out: “authenticate all real humans.”

That cryptic proposal is vague enough to keep people guessing about what Musk has in mind but specific enough that it offers several possible paths as he looks to shape Twitter more to his liking.

For example, Musk could seek to require real names on accounts. Or perhaps he may continue to allow pseudonyms but require photo identification, or integration with third-party services where users are already known.

Depending on the outcome, the plan could have big ramifications for Twitter’s hundreds of millions of users. more at link

But 'sploding libtard heads, according to the twittersphere, makes it all worth it, right? What's a lil more tracking and loss of privacy and anonymity as long as we believe some libs heads are 'sploding? (Man, the controllers really have this down to a science....)

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Ugh, sorry Capt but this is what I mean by people not looking into Musk's background. I don't know about the SpaceX claim (screams DARPA though) but the Paypal and Tesla claims are flat out 100% inaccurate. He didn't found either of them and in the case of Tesla he bought a stake in the already founded and in-progress company and then forced the original founders out, with pay-offs and NDAs. Somehow that morphed into him "founding" Tesla, thanks to the media repeating the lie enough that people now believe it. It's memes like that which only reinforce his flat out false history.

 

[TheTexan]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/elon-musk-authenticate-all-real-humans/index.html



But 'sploding libtard heads, according to the twittersphere, makes it all worth it, right? What's a lil more tracking and loss of privacy and anonymity as long as we believe some libs heads are 'sploding? (Man, the controllers really have this down to a science....)

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Ugh, sorry Capt but this is what I mean by people not looking into Musk's background. I don't know about the SpaceX claim (screams DARPA though) but the Paypal and Tesla claims are flat out 100% inaccurate. He didn't found either of them and in the case of Tesla he bought a stake in the already founded and in-progress company and then forced the original founders out, with pay-offs and NDAs. Somehow that morphed into him "founding" Tesla, thanks to the media repeating the lie enough that people now believe it. It's memes like that which only reinforce his flat out false history.

It's close enough to be true that noone cares.

 

[Occam's Banana]

But 'sploding libtard heads, according to the twittersphere, makes it all worth it, right? What's a lil more tracking and loss of privacy and anonymity as long as we believe some libs heads are 'sploding?

Yes.

There is no policy Musk can implement with respect to "authenticating all humans" for purposes of "data mining" that they couldn't already implement without him. So even granting the implementation of such a policy, the alternatives would be (1) more "data mining" and less censorship (with Musk), or (2) more "data mining" and more censorship (without Musk) - and it's silly to suggest that "they" would prefer (1) over (2).

But I guess some people just always have to find something to piss and moan about.

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(Man, the controllers really have this down to a science....)

Everyone except you is an easily-manipulated idiot.

It's just a burden you'll have to learn to bear.

 

[devil21]

Yes.

So a moderator of RPF, proclaimed libertarian, is a fan of boiling the frog now eh? Drinkin' a bit too much of your own Kool-aid lately, I fear. Post up memes of the same tired 2016 election reactions and a handful of twittersphere pundits and watch everyone embrace their loss of a little more privacy and anonymity. Then after everyone is required to have the "Verified Internet ID" just to use email, we'll wonder "How did we get here???"

Everyone except you is an easily-manipulated idiot.

It's just a burden you'll have to learn to bear.

Not everyone but most. Who cares about accuracy and truth while we're led down the pretty garden path to absolute control....

 

[GlennwaldSnowdenAssanged]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/elon-musk-authenticate-all-real-humans/index.html



But 'sploding libtard heads, according to the twittersphere, makes it all worth it, right? What's a lil more tracking and loss of privacy and anonymity as long as we believe some libs heads are 'sploding? (Man, the controllers really have this down to a science....)

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Ugh, sorry Capt but this is what I mean by people not looking into Musk's background. I don't know about the SpaceX claim (screams DARPA though) but the Paypal and Tesla claims are flat out 100% inaccurate. He didn't found either of them and in the case of Tesla he bought a stake in the already founded and in-progress company and then forced the original founders out, with pay-offs and NDAs. Somehow that morphed into him "founding" Tesla, thanks to the media repeating the lie enough that people now believe it. It's memes like that which only reinforce his flat out false history.

What we really need is another George Soros.

 

[Occam's Banana]

So a moderator of RPF, proclaimed libertarian, is a fan of boiling the frog now eh? Drinkin' a bit too much of your own Kool-aid lately, I fear.

I will never not enjoy "'sploding libtard heads".

I will always celebrate Elon Musk or anyone else who affords me the opportunity to indulge in such schadenfreude.

And I will never apologize for those facts, or be be made to feel defensive or ashamed of them.

The frog is being boiled regardless - and if a more free-speech-oriented, Musk-owned Twitter affords more frogs more chances to expose, discuss, and disseminate the myriad ways in which they are being boiled (thereby increasing the chances, however marginally, that something might effectively be done about it), then I'll be damned if I'm going to sneer at or whine about it.

Post up memes of the same tired 2016 election reactions and a handful of twittersphere pundits and watch everyone embrace their loss of a little more privacy and anonymity. Then after everyone is required to have the "Verified Internet ID" just to use email, we'll wonder "How did we get here???"

Speak for yourself. I won't be wondering any such thing. When it comes to anything involving the Internet, I have no concern at all over the "loss of a little more privacy and anonymity", because I have never been so naive or foolish as to imagine that there was ever any to lose in the first place. I already just assume that my identity (and everything I say or do) on any network-connected computer/phone/etc. is or will be known to whomever is sufficiently determined to discover it.

(Hi, NSA! Hey there, HyperMegaGloboCorp! How you guys doin' today?)

 

[ClaytonB]

But 'sploding libtard heads, according to the twittersphere, makes it all worth it, right?

Yes.

Reminds me of Mars Attacks! ... someone needs to do a mashup of this scene with Musk running into the room...

 

[ClaytonB]

(Hi, NSA! Hey there, HyperMegaGloboCorp! How you guys doin' today?)

 

[devil21]

https://www.berggruen.org/people/elon-musk/

Working beside such conservative voices as Arianna Huffington, Saule Amorova, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Dorsey (wait, wat?), Niall Ferguson, Willie Brown (yes, that Willie Brown), Condie Rice, and many other like-minded voices for free speech and conservative values.
https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/the-berggruen-network/ (worth a scroll to see the company Musk keeps...birds of a feather)

There's clearly an operation underway to engineer Musk into a Trump-like cult figure for the right, even though like Trump, there's little to nothing to demonstrate any such following is warranted.

The frog is being boiled regardless - and if a more free-speech-oriented, Musk-owned Twitter affords more frogs more chances to expose, discuss, and disseminate

You know that's not what's going to happen, right? Internet ID is a required component of social credit scoring. What does it matter if you're using a VPN, which does still provide privacy and anonymity generally, if you have to register all access accounts with an ID and displays your name? Man, some of y'all sure can't look two steps ahead....

And Musk is, imo, being propped up right now to be the salesman for it to the right with this manufactured populism behind him.

 

[TheTexan]

https://www.berggruen.org/people/elon-musk/

Working beside such conservative voices as Arianna Huffington, Saule Amorova, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Dorsey (wait, wat?), Niall Ferguson, Willie Brown (yes, that Willie Brown), Condie Rice, and many other like-minded voices for free speech and conservative values.
https://www.berggruen.org/people/group/the-berggruen-network/ (worth a scroll to see the company Musk keeps...birds of a feather)

There's clearly an operation underway to engineer Musk into a Trump-like cult figure for the right, even though like Trump, there's little to nothing to demonstrate any such following is warranted.




You know that's not what's going to happen, right? Internet ID is a required component of social credit scoring. What does it matter if you're using a VPN, which does still provide privacy and anonymity generally, if you have to register all access accounts with an ID and displays your name? Man, some of y'all sure can't look two steps ahead....

And Musk is, imo, being propped up right now to be the salesman for it to the right with this manufactured populism behind him.

Manufactured populism? Are you suggesting there is an evil cabal carefully crafting Elon's tweets, and they are the ones who keep violating the SEC?

Because his tweets are a main source of his right wing popularity.