Social media has now become so ingrained in our lives that we depend on it for our expressing our ideas and in principle our thinking.
It doesn't have to be that way, you know. I suspect if you think we're all dependent on social media, you're probably either under 30 years old or someone who needs it as part of how they make their living. Using platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and all the other social media sites is a choice (for the most part), and I can tell you that I'm perfectly happy not using any of them. I don't think bitcointalk counts as social media, but if it does then it's my one guilty pleasure.
Taking Twitter private is the best way to ensure that our freedoms last into the new digital age. I think Elon bought Twitter so he could see these changes happen and he knew it would cost him 44 billion dollars to make it happen.
I have a hard time taking anything I read in the news (or from Elon Musk) at face value. You might be correct, but as I said previously when an ultra-wealthy individual purchases some sort of media outlet, it's usually because they want to control the flow of information. I don't use Twitter, but I'm damn curious as to how it's going to look 6 months to a year from now. Maybe by then we'll see if the reasons Musk gave are true or if he had another agenda.
of billionaires owning important media. Musk has reacted outrageously various times over the last couple of weeks and months. He has been an interesting guy to me for a while and his entrepreneurial success is crazy, no doubt. But is the way he achieved success a great way? He has been brutal and he often has been lying.
Here he calls one of the Thai cave rescuers a pedo. I really wonder if someone who loses control over his wording in such a way is the right person to judge in the future what can be said on his Twitter platform and what can't be.
He is also dominating space with his satellites and some sources state that it is close to impossible to compete with him because in that sphere around planet Earth there is only so much space for satellites to be placed. He already "owns" the majority of it. So how far is that guy going to go?
One real problem I see is that with so much power, most people can't keep themselves under control even if they wanted to. He can implicitly blackmail authorities who are dependent on the satellites like NASA and the Pentagon. He is polarizing so hard, and I am not against polarization per se because sometimes that is a helpful tool to get hurt, but I feel he is crossing many lines at that is a type of polarization our society doesn't need. If the guy stays healthy, he has tens and tens of years to increase his empire and exert more and more pressure. Doesn't feel right to me.
Another quote:
"But by April, Mr. Musk made it clear that his help would go only so far. On Twitter, he said that as a “free speech absolutist,” he would not use Starlink to block Russian state media outlets that spread propaganda and misinformation on the war in Ukraine."Allowing for spreading misinformation specifically, like proven misinformation: is this guy bipolar?
