As someone else pointed out, when the guy who wants to expand the reach of the digital world also buys one of the biggest 'chatrooms' in the world, we should be careful how much we applaud. And I don't use Twitter, now or ever, so...I guess it will not affect me directly.
Yes, valid point. On first glance, I'm not upset that I was wrong. I figure Musk can't be worse than the people running it now. But I am not too excited either (and a little suspicious). It has little impact on me either way
Adam Townsend (adamscrabble on Twitter) has been warning for 2 years about picking our dictators wisely. We can go with someone like Gates or Bezos or someone like Musk. Adam hasn't been wrong in his predictions yet. If you missed his 2020 and 2021 interviews with unconventional thinkers, I recommend looking for them.
Same with me, but I’m a fan of incremental improvement. Too often we pass up progress for an idea that isn’t realistic.
Everything is too consolidated, and that creates lack of competition. In speech there is so much censoring there is no competitions for ideas.
I have no plans for a Twitter account and never had. But if more ideas and debate happen, that’s a good thing. Maybe we can talk about the importance of anti-trust and eliminating regulations that serve primarily as a barrier to entry.
I’ll take better over a perfect that will never happen. So I do share your concern, but at least the material outcome should be a nudge towards a society that is more free and reopens the market of ideas at least somewhat.
Just commented elsewhere that this was too easy. No counter bids from gender billionaires. No attempt by the gender billionaire owned pharma (75% of all US advertising - source Joe Rogan) to counter Musk.
And one private billionaire does not a commons make.
Honesty and accountability goes miles my friend, so bravo on showcasing your error. All any of us can do is guess in a “probabilistic” sense what the future might be.
I mean... If he really is interested in free speech, he may be able to make it a profitable company. How much do they spend/lose on censorship every year? Start by firing the censors.
Yup. Twitter has something like 7500 employees. But I'm not sure why they need anywhere near that many. I suspect quite a few of them will be shown the door.
I think people are being naive when they celebrate Musk taking over twitter. I know you aren't doing this but it's worth discussing as many are.
He too is part of the "elite" and works closely with Gates, Bezos et al. Sure, he has made some comments supporting free speech & Canadian Truckers but he has also launched hundreds (thousands?) of low orbit satellites purportedly to bring us all cheap broadband (work out the return on investment on that and it will make you seriously question the purpose of these satellites) and is currently carrying out unimaginably cruel experiments on chimpanzees to try and connect brains to the internet.
I will continue to keep off the platforms run by these monsters.
I agree that "what They want" is the likeliest determinant of "what We'll get." The fat lady may have entered Stage Right, but as of this moment, she is still clearing her throat.
I think The Powers That Be will be hard pressed to come up with an excuse to prevent this transaction. Elon isn't involved in media at all, so it's certainly not "anti-competitive".
Twitter's Board of Directors is not what I mean by TPTB. Twitter's board came to their senses; they didn't wanna get sued individually for dereliction of their fiduciary duty to the shareholders, which is almost certainly what would have happened if they'd rejected Elon's bid, or swallowed that poison pill. TPTB in this case are the regulatory agencies that still need to give their seal of approval to this.
As someone else pointed out, when the guy who wants to expand the reach of the digital world also buys one of the biggest 'chatrooms' in the world, we should be careful how much we applaud. And I don't use Twitter, now or ever, so...I guess it will not affect me directly.
Yes, valid point. On first glance, I'm not upset that I was wrong. I figure Musk can't be worse than the people running it now. But I am not too excited either (and a little suspicious). It has little impact on me either way
Adam Townsend (adamscrabble on Twitter) has been warning for 2 years about picking our dictators wisely. We can go with someone like Gates or Bezos or someone like Musk. Adam hasn't been wrong in his predictions yet. If you missed his 2020 and 2021 interviews with unconventional thinkers, I recommend looking for them.
this is him? https://www.adamtownsend.me/
Yes
Mrrr
Same with me, but I’m a fan of incremental improvement. Too often we pass up progress for an idea that isn’t realistic.
Everything is too consolidated, and that creates lack of competition. In speech there is so much censoring there is no competitions for ideas.
I have no plans for a Twitter account and never had. But if more ideas and debate happen, that’s a good thing. Maybe we can talk about the importance of anti-trust and eliminating regulations that serve primarily as a barrier to entry.
I’ll take better over a perfect that will never happen. So I do share your concern, but at least the material outcome should be a nudge towards a society that is more free and reopens the market of ideas at least somewhat.
No ridicule. Publicly admitting you were wrong shows character, especially when you coulda just deleted the post and pretended it never happened. ;)
Just commented elsewhere that this was too easy. No counter bids from gender billionaires. No attempt by the gender billionaire owned pharma (75% of all US advertising - source Joe Rogan) to counter Musk.
And one private billionaire does not a commons make.
Maybe it will cause some other woke companies to change their tune - we can only hope.
Ridicule? No. Trust? Yes.
Your mea culpa is graciously accepted.
I admire you for bringing attention to your wrong prediction! This is what smart, honest and strong people do!
I thought that Putin would not start the war in Ukraine. Here's this.
Honesty and accountability goes miles my friend, so bravo on showcasing your error. All any of us can do is guess in a “probabilistic” sense what the future might be.
To admit that you were wrong, makes you great. Only the good people admit they were. All the others lie.
Any thoughts as to how he is going to recap the cost?
I mean... If he really is interested in free speech, he may be able to make it a profitable company. How much do they spend/lose on censorship every year? Start by firing the censors.
Maybe you were right, and the "hostile" part is theater. Heads have not yet rolled.
Depending on what Musk does, he might have a lot of hostile employees...
😂
Yup. Twitter has something like 7500 employees. But I'm not sure why they need anywhere near that many. I suspect quite a few of them will be shown the door.
From Dec 2020 to Dec 2021, Twitter added 2,000 employees. Might be commensurate with the increase in censorship...
Accountability 😎
I think people are being naive when they celebrate Musk taking over twitter. I know you aren't doing this but it's worth discussing as many are.
He too is part of the "elite" and works closely with Gates, Bezos et al. Sure, he has made some comments supporting free speech & Canadian Truckers but he has also launched hundreds (thousands?) of low orbit satellites purportedly to bring us all cheap broadband (work out the return on investment on that and it will make you seriously question the purpose of these satellites) and is currently carrying out unimaginably cruel experiments on chimpanzees to try and connect brains to the internet.
I will continue to keep off the platforms run by these monsters.
I agree that "what They want" is the likeliest determinant of "what We'll get." The fat lady may have entered Stage Right, but as of this moment, she is still clearing her throat.
I think The Powers That Be will be hard pressed to come up with an excuse to prevent this transaction. Elon isn't involved in media at all, so it's certainly not "anti-competitive".
Considering how easy this transaction went through I would suggest that TPTB are fully onboard.
Twitter's Board of Directors is not what I mean by TPTB. Twitter's board came to their senses; they didn't wanna get sued individually for dereliction of their fiduciary duty to the shareholders, which is almost certainly what would have happened if they'd rejected Elon's bid, or swallowed that poison pill. TPTB in this case are the regulatory agencies that still need to give their seal of approval to this.
It's not what I meant by TPTB either.