The first absolute monarch aka modern totalitarian leader was Louis XIV. Do you think he constructed a modern road system throughout France out of the goodness of his heart, because he felt bad for the poor peasants trudging in the mud? Of course not. The populace might have been thankful at first for nice roads… until the Sun King used …
The first absolute monarch aka modern totalitarian leader was Louis XIV. Do you think he constructed a modern road system throughout France out of the goodness of his heart, because he felt bad for the poor peasants trudging in the mud? Of course not. The populace might have been thankful at first for nice roads… until the Sun King used them to quickly send his representatives and bureaucrats quickly around the country to boss everyone around more effectively! This is history 101, anything that centralizes power is always first sold as making your life better - and then is used to more efficiently control you! It’s happened a million times before, will happen a million times to come, and will continue to shock and surprise the naive fools who thought the prom queen was being nicer to them because she loved their sense of humor…
Yes, but my sense is that the founders of PayPal: Musk, Theil, Sachs, did not have this mind when they started the company. This happened long after they sold it.
Be just a little more skeptical of Musk, please. It is great that he is exposing the over-the-top bureaucracy of Twitter, but there are a lot of things not so great about Musk like how much his companies are subsidized by the US government, like how he is in China (just like Tim Cook), etc.
I do not know how he is with China. I know it is a huge market and the CCP does not suffer insult. As far as the subsidies I will not fault him for that. Our government passes out subsidies like candy. That is, IMO, the fault of the government and those that vote them in. I had read early on that Twitter would be ideal for space communication as it uses short messaging, is already built and would be cheaper than starting from.the ground up. If this is true I think he may be deliberately destroying it as a commercial.platform. But man 'o man am I enjoying the show. And it has absolutely confirmed my suspicions about how corrupt social media platforms and the federal government is. This makes Watergate look like a picnic. Say what you will about Republicans they are willing to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds. I have yet to see that from.any Democrats with few exceptions (Barney Frank).
Ever since it was revealed that the Feds got permission to wire-tap candidate Trump on the basis of a spurious dossier, I've been wondering how this does not rise to the level of Watergate.
The Twitter file dump is an incredibly brilliant PR move by Musk. He did good for the people (i.e. free speech) and his company at the same time. but Elon Musk as the internet version of Mother Teresa of free speech is a little off putting. The adoration of Musk as a free speech savior has the potential disastrous result as welcoming a Trojan Horse.
I agree about both the brilliant strategy (lots of free publicity) and the Trojan Horse aspect. I am wary of the too good to be true aspect. But I am suspicious by nature. Thank heaven!
The first absolute monarch aka modern totalitarian leader was Louis XIV. Do you think he constructed a modern road system throughout France out of the goodness of his heart, because he felt bad for the poor peasants trudging in the mud? Of course not. The populace might have been thankful at first for nice roads… until the Sun King used them to quickly send his representatives and bureaucrats quickly around the country to boss everyone around more effectively! This is history 101, anything that centralizes power is always first sold as making your life better - and then is used to more efficiently control you! It’s happened a million times before, will happen a million times to come, and will continue to shock and surprise the naive fools who thought the prom queen was being nicer to them because she loved their sense of humor…
Yes, but my sense is that the founders of PayPal: Musk, Theil, Sachs, did not have this mind when they started the company. This happened long after they sold it.
I think Musk may have seen the error of his ways. He is lambasting the new AIChat as very dangerous.
It's very woke.
Be just a little more skeptical of Musk, please. It is great that he is exposing the over-the-top bureaucracy of Twitter, but there are a lot of things not so great about Musk like how much his companies are subsidized by the US government, like how he is in China (just like Tim Cook), etc.
I do not know how he is with China. I know it is a huge market and the CCP does not suffer insult. As far as the subsidies I will not fault him for that. Our government passes out subsidies like candy. That is, IMO, the fault of the government and those that vote them in. I had read early on that Twitter would be ideal for space communication as it uses short messaging, is already built and would be cheaper than starting from.the ground up. If this is true I think he may be deliberately destroying it as a commercial.platform. But man 'o man am I enjoying the show. And it has absolutely confirmed my suspicions about how corrupt social media platforms and the federal government is. This makes Watergate look like a picnic. Say what you will about Republicans they are willing to suffer the consequences of their misdeeds. I have yet to see that from.any Democrats with few exceptions (Barney Frank).
Ever since it was revealed that the Feds got permission to wire-tap candidate Trump on the basis of a spurious dossier, I've been wondering how this does not rise to the level of Watergate.
Musk is a capitalist.
This is what capitalists do.
The Twitter file dump is an incredibly brilliant PR move by Musk. He did good for the people (i.e. free speech) and his company at the same time. but Elon Musk as the internet version of Mother Teresa of free speech is a little off putting. The adoration of Musk as a free speech savior has the potential disastrous result as welcoming a Trojan Horse.
I agree about both the brilliant strategy (lots of free publicity) and the Trojan Horse aspect. I am wary of the too good to be true aspect. But I am suspicious by nature. Thank heaven!