25 Apr 2022 11:18 pm
Cannonpointer » 25 Apr 2022, 9:04 pm » wrote: ↑ Musk is a muti-billionaire who has made no money to my knowledge outside of carbon credits and tax credits - nothing useful, nothing having to do with consumers but rather, having to do with tax payers and cozy wall street reationships.
A man allowed to do such things - I said it: allowed - is no friend of freedom.
Look. Musk seems a wonderful fellow, based on PR and recent utterances. But he is one of the ruling class - the do nothing elite, - on a mission of diversion, giving the right false hope. Every minute wasted cheering for deus ex machina diversions is a minute NOT spent productively.
Name a product or venture that Musk is associated with which has ever made a penny by providing consumers with value, and I might amend my argument. Don't say a word about Tesla, though - it's a money loser, if you take away the free money from tax subsidies and carbon credits.
The problem here is that Musk has taken total control of the “digital public square” ostensibly in defense of free speech - but at the same time removed a system of checks and balances that also protected free speech.
Twitter used to have shareholders, and as such it was a public entity regulated by the SEC. Twitter rules used to be an amalgam of the majority shareholders ideas, balanced by government watchdog agency. Now it’s just Musk.. in a stroke he has taken the system of checks and balances over the public discourse and replaced it with a dictator - himself