He seems to have fundamentally misunderstood what Twitter is (which is surprising for a person that has just paid a fortune for it). Twitter is not the public square and the future of twitter (or lack thereof) is not a free speech concern. Twitter is a private company, Elon.
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Exactly! Some of the comments are really delusional, Tesla engineers are all Shield engineers and Musk is some real life version Tony Stark that can easily 'Jarvis' anything overnight.
There is a huge cost to building up an ecosystem with ready to go apps. Then there is this tons of license and patents fees that you need to pay to Apple, Samsung, Google god knows how many others. He certainly can do it, but at what cost?
I really do not understand this free speech argument. How is pulling out ad money = not supporting free speech. And pulling an app because it broke TC means end of civilisation?
These days I have to constantly remind myself, what i see in twitter does not reflect real life. It is one crazy bubble and if you get stuck in too long, you can really start to despair.
It's always the same thing with people who are the loudest about free speech, once you disagree with them, they will claim you are violating their freedom of speech. They don't care about actual free speech, they only care about their own "truths" and the ability to spread them unchallenged.
I'd imagine a phone built by someone with zero experience designing phones made two years ago would be slightly out of date.
Oh that's not logic. He's pandering to a certain audience and media. Playing to his moronic audience.
Yes, a bit like those religious extremists back in the middle ages.
Thats the weird thing. Unlike Trump he's not running for anything, and his own base already idolize him, why keep doing things to please them while further alienating everyone else? At this point he's become their tool, and it shows. There are probably many conservatives who actually still dislike him and think he's a degenerate etc, but they're just using him because like Trump he's a very effective tool against the left.
"Storm chaser"
Why are these people so invested in Elon succeeding? It's bizarre. "It would be so insane if a billionaire amassed even more wealth!".
Same reason they donate money they probably should be using for their own savings accounts or families to rich people. Thinking it would "own the libs". Those people that donated to fake Build the Wall scams. Morons, but they think they are contributing to 'owning' "enemies"."Storm chaser"
Why are these people so invested in Elon succeeding? It's bizarre. "It would be so insane if a billionaire amassed even more wealth!".
Oh they're definitely all 100% serious. Elon Musk fandom has always been by far the cringiest, most embarrassing fandom out there. And while we've had people in this very thread who have left it, those who remain have become even worse.The comments on that tweet.
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Ha! Doubt it. A secret phone would clearly only be secret all this time because it's technology is far more advanced than anything we've ever seen.
He bought it to kill it, it's the only thing that makes sense to me. Bunch of corrupt/dictator types clubbed together and decided they didn't want Twitter around any more. There's plenty ways Musk can be repaid outside of the public eye.
how does buying a multibillion company to kill it make any sense to you?
he’s just a tit
Anyone who thinks this is even remotely realistic, like even 0.0001% realistic, should read up on Bezos' Fire Phone expeditions. He was certain that was going to be Amazon's biggest money spinner since AWS and it flopped so badly that it did not even last 2 years IIRC.
And in other news about how the remenants of the team controlling that are doing
Musk faces fines if Twitter’s gutted child safety team becomes overwhelmed | Ars Technica
I find it offensive how that guy equates smoking Heroin and dick riding Musk. Like sure heroin can soften the mind a little but it doesn’t turn it completely into mush
That's not Stasi, that's just capitalism.
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Major social media platforms literally have the power to decide elections, all over the world. They also aid the spread of information that countries whom don't have elections, don't want to be spread. Twitter in general is/was one of, if not the most progressively moderated of them. Of course there is still loads of shit on it, but less so than facebook for example.
I'm imagining there are some very rich cnuts out there that would rather it didn't exist. Its very popular in Saudi for example, that presents a problem for the leadership of a country still living in the dark ages.
What an utterly unimitigated douchebag. Overgrown manchild who is clearly so broken somehow that he thinks being the personification of an online troll is a good way to ruin his legacy.
I've been thinking about this as well. Granted he's always come across as an idiot and far from the Tony Stark that people try to make him out to be, but this Twitter tenure has been handled so spectacularly bad in so many ways that I can't help but think it was deliberate and done to kill Twitter. As much as people (especially on here) like to moan about Twitter being the worst thing to ever exist, it does a lot of good for a lot of people and has done for a long time.
okay but how is this logistically panning out in your head?
musk drops 40bn on twitter, crashes the Tesla price and burns his entire rep and… some rich cnuts make it up to him somehow?
their newest ads are getting past browser ublock...so the engineers have been busy!
Never attribute malice which can adequately be explained by stupidity
Feck knows really, could have a gun to his head for all we know. He's not the richest man in the world, just the richest that files tax returns. He'll be woefully out of his depth if he's got involved with the wrong people.
I'd apply Occam's Razor. He's just out of his depth for being an idiot. Makes more sense based on all we know about him.
The medium's success is built on its short form, non researched hot takes fit!
It failed spectacularly to decide a crucial election about 2 weeks ago tough.
It's amazing that in the country with the best universities, people are confusing/equatating free speech with fake news and Marxism with capitalism.
For a nice change, Trumpist type politics should be getting nowhere near 50% of the vote.
Keeping it for himself I imagine.
It feels like words simply have no meaning anymore. Accepted terms with decades or even centuries of history, essays, debate, facts, opinions, etc behind them can now be used to mean pretty much anything you want. Nothing needs to have any basis in reality anymore.
he’s been doing dumb shit like this for years..
he got in trouble with the SEC for saying dumb shit, he got in trouble for calling a guy a pedo.. all that’s happening now is a continuation of the norm
pretty sure he got away with that one - guy tried to sue him and lost
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593