It'd be a real shame if everyone on twitter welcomed their new overlord with tweets about labor unions and his poor record of employee relations, wouldn't it?
For the wealthy and powerful "Freedom of speech" has always meant "Freedom to discriminate as I see fit" and nothing else. This is especially common with right wingers.
You can't discriminate through "speech". By the way, discrimination is an inherent part of human nature. We all do it whether we know it or are willing to admit it. You were born with the ability to speak freely. You can't discriminate when talking, only through action.
When Musk first announced his interest in buying Twitter, it dawned on me I was wasting too much time on the site. I deleted the app from my phone, then logged out of my account on my laptop. As of this morning's news, I realized I hadn't missed being on the platform and officially deactivated my account for good. No need to find out what changes will happen. They can do it without me. And as for "Finding another site", it's overlooked that people won't seek an alternative. "Choosing nothing" is a very viable option when it comes to social media. Ask anyone who got rid of facebook and replaced it with nothing.
@@ToasterStud those free speech advocates are going to be so pissed when they tweet about their Tesla coming with half the brakes it's supposed to, LOL 😋
I don't expect Elon Musk to make Twitter free speech, I'm just expecting him to make it free speech for him personally, and possibly silencing critics of him.
And his defense in court was basically "me and my mates called each other pedoguy all the time". Which makes that photo of him with Ghislane Maxwell even more curious.
He’s NOT as ideologically pure on this issue as he purports to be. There are plenty of ex employees who have been punished for criticizing him. Elon is just as much a snowflake as tfg.
I've never had a Twitter account and never will especially now. Letting billionaires buy up more media in this country should be concerning to everyone. I don't know why regulators will allow this. Haven't we seen the damage that Rupert Murdoch has been allowed to do to this country.
It wasn’t Rupert, it was Karl Rove and the first two years of the George W bush administration. That was when the Party of Liars Cheats and Thieves started calling those followers of the Party of Stupid vile and corrupt to their core. The LCT party followers, being the low intellect people that they are jumped on board that train. I keep waiting a reporter to ask the maga people a couple questions; 1) do you think that all Party of Stupid voters are vile and corrupt to their core? 2) will you ever believe the Party of Stupid can win an election with out cheating. I’ve asked both questions of family members that are Magites, and I’m still waiting for a direct answer to my direct question. They can’t and won’t answer because they know that yes or no really makes them look silly. I hate cowards!! I’m m soon to be 66, and I’ve taken crap all my life because I’m not afraid to make outrageous statements and not run from them, the same with answering questions. I’m believe one should never ask a question that they don’t really want to hear the answer.
The fact that one man controls a major car manufacturer, a company to make spacecraft, and has 43 billion dollars to buy a social media company proves that our economic system is broken.
Even better, that he has no actual capital and his worth is all in the stockmarket lol, yet he is the richest man in the world. Capital gains taxes. Get rid of them, jfc. Actually, its too late now The future is behind us.
It's terrible when someone who only owns stock and doesn't take a salary can enhance the wealth of anyone that owns that stock as well. Just reprehensible. (sarcasm alert)
I told elon this mornin if he can afford to buy twitter than he can afford to pay his fair share of taxes & in 5 seconds flat I was restricted from twitter for 24 hours.
I'm taking bets on how many days it is until Musk claims that Twitter won't do business in the EU because he doesn't want to follow their rules. It will cause a huge crash in the stock and then after his lawyers stick him in a room and kick his butt then he'll say we misinterpreted his now deleted Tweet.
Exactly! We need to silence free speech to protect our democracy. The worst thing for me to hear is people that disagree with me. That's why I listen to Beau. My only hope is to repeal the 1st amendment.
@@thomasorchard You can still hear Trump if you want to. He is not being 'silenced'. Do you ever wonder why you need to lie, in order to create an illusion that you have a point?
@@thomasorchard - NO, this is media network that has the responsibility to publish the truth and block 'bot-nets', 'trolls', etc. Internet sites should have same requirements as newspapers and radio/TV stations, at least to check out the source of information before publishing or broadcasting information.
If only the US mainstream media focused a fraction of their critical attention upon US billionaire oligarchs as it does Russian ones, we may have a slightly more informed populous.
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses Joost Meerloo Unfortunately the oligarchy in the US dictate the propaganda. This explains Trump's support. This explains why another country can have politicians in that legislate laws that are anti freedom and no one cares or is even that most are unaware of yet cry about mask mandates and vaccines. There is a real danger when the richest people have the outlet to control the narrative
That focus has been going on for two months now. We hadn’t even heard of most of them before that. That said, this is a piece on Elon Musk. We read a lot about him, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos every freaking day. So mission accomplished.
The most important question for Americans is whether or not Elon let's Trump back on Twitter or not. Isn't that why most people are concerned? First thing that came to my mind when I heard Musk was buying Twitter.
I think more importantly, if he lets Trump back on Twitter, will the media report every ridiculous Tweet he posts? The media was and has been culpable in letting Trump become so powerful, because they make or made a lot of money off that train wreck. He got more free campaign publicity than any presidential candidate, because media outlets thought it was implausible he would get enough votes to be elected.
Thats such a disgusting idea. Reading trump is yelling fire in a theater, i cant see that as good therefore i couldnt see musk as good. I know he is our own ironman but screw him if #45 is his idea of fun
Yep . He just wants the sec off his back so he can hawk his wares Let's see if he starts rolling the ads from the climate change deniers. Because you know free speech and all.
I don’t really care about Twitter anymore. Finals week made me come to the genuinely terrifying realization of just how many hours I spent on that site instead of doing anything better with my life. Not only that, the character limit makes nuanced conversation a nightmare, it’s not a very good place to form meaningful connections, the algorithm kept funneling me repetitive posts, and the shorter, faster, shallower, high volume approach to delivering content took advantage of my ADHD worse than almost any other social media app. Musk can be king of the cesspool for all I care. It suits him
I've never had it and most certainly never will now. I wouldn't touch that slop and I can't stand musk. The way you speak of being all into it, I'd rather devote that energy to my Playstation games. At least it gives me sharper focus and better reactions from having to think. I can't even stand the cesspool the comments sections on YT get turned into.
I’ve never been on Twitter and really don’t see the point of why it’s popular and it seems to have had a net negative impact on society as a whole, so I’m not a fan
@@lindseys3708 You know what the great thing about Discord is? You can’t refresh it! If none of your friends have posted anything, there’s nothing new to see. You can’t get lost endlessly scrolling through content when the amount of new stuff on the servers you’re a part of is so tangibly finite. And when I’ve run out of stuff to look at, it’s a lot easier to put down and do something else
@@john.premose Looking back on it, I have no idea why I joined. I think after a certain point I was just using it as an ADHD stim. Twitter occupies the same place as a prolific soap opera or trashy pop song. Something meant to fill space and solve boredom not by engaging people but by filling an empty space
Genius! This will be the ultimate test of Musk's purported reasoning for controlling Twitter ... will he allow this kid's Twitter account to stay up? Or will he prove himself to be a hypocrite and shut it down?
@@quintrankid8045 EIU's Democracy Index still has USA in the top layer of Flawed Democracies, ie comfortably in the top 30 albeit sliding on a downward slope. That's if you were asking about USA.
Twitter has been owned by billionaires. Nothing new here. They were just left wing in policies and now a more right wing leaning guy is taking over. Oh well.
We live in what I believe is called a Plutocracy. I'm not exactly sure when Democracy died, but I would say it occurred somewhere between 1981 and 2003. What happened during these two plus decades is that the wealthy got a tax cut.....followed by another tax cut.....then they needed a few tax cuts to go with their tax cuts......and then Dubya said that since the budget had been balanced (under Clinton) and that it appeared the National debt would soon be paid off.....(hard to believe now, but that was the common wisdom in the year 2000, in fact, they projected it would be completely paid off around 2013)......anyway, the point it there was nothing to stop the already extremely wealthy to become ever more wealthy. This assured that we wouldn't just have Billionaires, but multi-multi-Billionaires (and, yes, Trillionaires are coming soon). And they now rule us. Democracy is long gone. You see, what is not commonly understood about taxing the wealthy is that they need to be taxed not only because, of course, that's where the money is but they also need to be taxed as a means of controlling their wealth so it does not become unrestrained. Think of it as that plant in Little Shop of Horrors. That plant would grow bigger and bigger and there was no limit to how big it could grow. You have to limit that growth.
@@Canbilly2 I wish people wouldn't keep getting this so wrong. Pushing back on people and/or blocking people is a form of speech. Free speech is the ability to say something it is not guarantee of being heard.
He will troll those he does not agree with, not block them. I think twitter is looking toward his Mars base governance and this is his trial run at it.
Howdy Beau. Doesn’t seem to matter how quickly I click after receiving your notification somebody beats me to it. 😀👍 it’s good to see that you have so many engaged and enthusiastic supporters.
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Didn't know if you had a detailed list military hardware going to Ukraine. Ward Carroll put out a detailed list that I would love to hear your take on how it may escalate matters or expedite closure of military action. Thanks!
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Love the videos! Hate that Musk will most likely censor anyone that doesn't agree with him. We need to quarantine people, not censor them and of course basic moderation.
Regardless of the control Musk gains from owning Twitter, it is still better than Trump having his own platform to spew more of his anti-Democracy rhetoric.
@Mike Dalby That would be a smart reply if all views were equally valid and worthy of acceptance. But they're not, so it matters a lot _which_ views a platform finds "acceptable to be shared".
@@geegee8407 And let's notice he BORROWED THE MONEY, he didn't use his own. Our government has let down all Americans by allowing the RICH TO BUY AND CONTROL WHATEVER THEY PLEASE. From Amazon, Disney, to name a few. We have monopoly laws in this country that have been ignored since Reagan.
Exactly, just think how much efforts he spent to make sure everybody "knows" that he is the only person responsible for founding Paypal and Tesla... He's a con man, and con men know their image is the most important thing.
@@RCdiy He could also be the father of Amber Heard's kid, too.🤣 Kids don't keep people from splitting up. Nor should they. That might be the worst reason for a couple to stay together.
Sort of, but not really. These kind of things are just numbers being moved from one account to another in a computer. Trying to translate that into real useful dollars is.. questionable. Musk won't be selling off a bunch of stuff or writing a big check, he'll simply be transferring some ephemeral "assets" in terms of stocks or whatever. Same goes for Twitter itself. Its one thing to say its "valued" at $90bn or whatever, but that doesn't mean there's $90bn worth of anything that would matter in a real sense. Its only worth $90bn on paper. If you tried to actually liquidate Twitter's assets to get real cash you could use to build a school, you'd be lucky to get even a tenth of that - and probably a lot less since the only thing Twitter really "owns" is a few million worth of servers around the world and a bunch of data on those servers. Not that $9bn wouldn't go a long way toward building schools of course, but its not anywhere near what it sounds like when rich people buy things from other rich people. Its all done through asset transfers, not through real money.
He believed that when he was born to the owners of a diamond mine - starting as a millionaire- standing on the backs of giants and the hubris to believe he “earned” it. He is a moron with luck and money. Deleted twitter as soon as I found out.
Great analysis, Beau. “The intersection of ideology and reality - there’s a lot of car accidents there” - F’ing bang on! This whole “regime change” thing is all just marketing. Keep up the great work!
Are they Tesla accidents? Historically, Musk has been able to drive his impractical ideology quite a long way before any car crash, then he just neatly parks up e.g. Boring Company, Hyperloop. He is an excellent PR man in this gullible social media society and the US journalists love him because he is rich. They really don't care that he misses nearly all of his delivery promises because they have moved on by then.
the benefits to America alone would be immense... but Americans love their guns, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, kicking down and of course making money off the less fortunate - well not all Americans but unfortunately the ones that rule the right wing political machine.... so taking away freedo.... I mean Facebook and Twitter would enrage those same people that were calling for their destruction two years ago.... cause... 'murica
@@jnb756 Spot on my friend. Please know that NOT all Americans are like the right wing authority obsessed, book canceling, math book returning, fuc*** w DISNEY assho***, that are destroying this country! Did I add culture war addicts!??! There are some rational independents left!! I am one. Nice to meet you
As a trans person, I’m one of those “small issues related to the culture wars”. This might spell the deathknell of twitter at large, but it’s definitely chilling if you are a minority targeted by right wing moral panics.
@@johnboettcher1962 If Twitter is used to galvanize a small percentage of the population into blind hatred of another segment of the population they don't like, all of those things could indeed be in serious jeopardy. This is how things like the big lie being spread on these platforms end up precipitating a coup attempt.
@@jfrancisbf Facebook too. Though I guess no matter what platform you're on you will always encounter toxic people, false information, and hateful bigots.
Of course this is assuming that Elon Musk listens to his lawyers. A lot of people made that mistake when Trump was elected, assuming he would listen to his advisors as an inexperienced politician.
And even so, gas was cheaper. Energy in general was cheaper. We were energy independent. There were less illegal border crossings. We weren't engaged in a war or a proxy war. Inflation wasn't a problem. Food prices and availability was better. I guess Trump knew what he was doing. Sadly, a lot of people are just incapable of admitting it because that would mean admitting they were wrong about Trump. Maybe that's you? As far as being a "politician" goes, the founders never envisioned a political class running the country such as we have now. It was supposed to be governed by the people. Not just a few who remain in power for decades like the ones we have now. That's how Trump got elected to begin with. People were fed up with 8 years of Democrat policies. And once the Dems took the White House, they doubled down, and look where we are now. Unless of course you like high gas prices, empty shelves, the value of your dollar getting less by the day. Then just ignore what I said.
Musk has said he hates the SEC and will say and do whatever he wants, as if the SEC has no power. Then he manipulates Bitcoin prices with shady Tesla announcements and shills DOGE, an actual shitcoin which he says is "the people's money." He disregards all potential legal advice when he goes about scamming his own fans like a know-nothing porn star. So yeah, Musk _definitely_ doesn't listen to his lawyers, probably thinks he knows more than they do or that he's too rich to ever be in serious trouble. A lot like the orange shitstain on the Oval Office curtains.
He's also tweeted false accusations of pedophilia against people, and violatesd FCC trade rules multiple times via tweet. The man has no value for truth or accountability. He pushes misinformation, lies fairly consistently, and has a clear agenda. Perfect guy to run one of the major social discourses......
I've just assumed that Elon is buying Twitter because his ego has to have the last word on the whole beef he has with the kid running the Twitter account for Where Is Elon Musk's Jet.
That would be too funny. But no. Musk appears to be doing this to let Trump out of Twitter jail. Contrary to what others here have commented, Musk does not need to "advertised" his cars on Twitter, or make his voice any louder than it already is with all of his followers. He is doing it for political reasons. Same reason he left California ...the place that gave him everything that made him now the wealthiest man of earth... and moved himself and his corporate Tesla headquarters to Texas, a bastion of right wing conservative politics. But Musk won't be able to stop the government regulators. They're coming. They're already starting to make an impact in the EU with the Digital Services Act, which is intended to address social media’s societal harms by requiring companies to more aggressively police their platforms for illicit content or risk billions of dollars in fines. And many regulations that start in the EU eventually make their way across the pond to the US. So Musk will eventually be faced with a choice, risk billions of dollars in fines for continuing to allow Trump to weaponize Twitter as he had been doing, or drop him.
I understand some people have their entire lives revolved around the social media platform know as Twitter, I have never used it, never intend to use it and have no use for it.
It's an incredibly powerful communications tool. It's also a toxic wasteland that brings out the worst in human behavior. I'm a lot less ANGRY after getting off the platform.
Just that this was probably worst "prepared"/verified/fact-based clip from Beau. First, nothing is done yet, and there are many steps before "he has control". Second, most of points about what he would do, were just what people say he will do, not what he said. Third, he never said it was going to be unmoderated in any way. So... what Elon said he would like to do about Twitter: - make algorithm open source (so everybody interested knows how it works and why) - DESTROY spam bots, scam bots, bot nets - add Edit button (in limited way, so it's not used to trick people) - "maybe" stop permanent bans, and move to only timed bans - OF COURSE keep what can be published in accordance to law/laws - make it much easier to VERIFY true human beings ("verify all humans") And that's most if not all Elon REALLY talked about doing. Most of what is circulating on the internet about his ideas is just pure fiction by those who push it, and mostly has little to do with his REAL words. Also ie. he never suggested unbanning Trump, that's just some weird interpretation of his once or twice said words about being "free speech absolutist" which was originally about blocking addresses on Starlink, like some countries ban some sites.
@@TheBartu5 LoL... you honestly haven't figured out this dude's entire schtick is bullshit? His name isn't even Beau... even THAT isn't based in reality. ...yet leftists eat it up. Goes to show 🤣🤣🤣
He will not technically hold it alone, but he is in a position to exert operational influence over it. And Twitter only has the power that each individual ascribes to it. Just because it exists and is popular, does not make for real power. Twitter is not the first, only or last of such platforms, just the popular one at this time. (Often these popularity based operations follow the entertainment life-cycle which is much shorter than the corporate life-cycle. AOL and MySpace were all a thing once too, and purchased for ridiculous sums to promptly fall apart - ultimately these sorts of companies lack the ability to erect barriers to competition, which is a difficulty in the internet space across the board). Oh - and it is not a public square, its a fishing hole. The "value" is derived from direct marketing activities - they just let you hang out so that can get to know you better.....
@@opieg7333 I see no indication of other partners or shareholders which mean he will have sole operational control. What evidence do you have inapposite?
@@opieg7333 Unlike corporations, which have transparency protections, boards, minutes & answer to shareholders, the privately owned Twitter will have NONE of that vesting total power over information & disinformation in the hands of one person. You may think it has no power but the new reality of social media establishes it does so.
@@arthurunknown8972 No, I mean that while "he" is buying it, the cash is not coming solely from his pockets. There are funding entities to make that happen and they will have a voice. (Even for a "personality" like Musk, a plan must be presented to get sign off on tens of billions. And ownership is not per say an operational position such as CEO. One might install a new CEO, but Musk likely wont take that position. Corporate "transparency" and "accountability" really do not have much of an impact on the operational side beyond making money and keeping the corporate image positioned favorably. The space is already rife with misinformation and disinformation. And knowing that, why would one ascribe any veracity to something posted there without further research. It is a marketing platform where you can chat with friends on occasion nothing more. The level of content control has NEVER been in place and the work-around to it has always existed. Elevating social media to something more than a phone is the fundamental issue. Now, if we all want to me lemmings and follow along, sure it is powerful, but a bit odd complaining about that power if you are the one granting it. It has gotten to the point where society really need to deprogram itself from making the medium of communication anything more than a medium. If you accept that illogical premise that it has power as anything more than a communication medium then you are accepting living in an illogical world. That is not a great reality to make real. Twitters purpose really was and still is a direct marketing communication tool. It leverages familiarity to market to the individual. Same as any directed telemarketing call.
I do not understand or feel like learning about twitter, it just seems ridiculous to me. I am concerned about this takeover and what moves other oligarchs will do next. I do get that this is somehow a massive communications system, which is now in the hands of someone I question the ethics of.
It's a communication system used by journalists, among others, to keep abreast of 'what's happening now.' When something pops on Twitter, the journos notice. Since they need clicks to keep as a going concern and since Twitter is not in fact representative of the whole of information, someone with control of it can push alternate realities.
You say that from a place of ignorance (i.e. you don't really now who he is you just classify him as a "billionaire") Go listen to his interviews. There are many very recent ones. Then you can speak with some actual knowledge of who Elon is. He's not perfect but then neither am I or are you.
@@TimothyParker1 The OP didn't classify Musk as a billionaire, they did lump Musk in with other oligarchs. I have listened to many of Musk's talks and interviews as well as pay attention to his activities and I also question his ethics.
The reactionaries are fighting a "war" basically against themselves and whatever they can larp about. The rest of us are just watching in horror, amusement, or both.
Let's talk about me quitting Twitter when I heard Musk was buying it. I want nothing to do with him. When he rockets off to Mars with the rest of the 1%, I'll happily forgot he ever was a thing.
@@scipioafricanus5871 I think Must said once that he would be one of the first to travel to Mars in his own rockets. Let's just hope there isn't a loose screw somewhere or Mr. "loose screw" Musk might vaporize on re-entry.
Do you honestly think he is going to Mars? His ships might but, I doubt he would try to make that trip himself. Although hubris is a strong force. Take the man who create leaded gas. To attempt to show how safe his leaded gas was at a press conference he poured it over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring he could do that every day without succumbing to any problems. Shortly afterwords he was diagnosed with lead poisoning.
IMO the most important aspect of free speech is the right to free association. A lot of people seem to think that Twitter banning someone is somehow anti free speech. It's not - it's a foundational aspect of free speech. You have the right to say what you want. You absolutely do not have the right to use someone else's platform to broadcast or amplify it. The way most Trumpets go on about free speech you'd think they would be fine with a bunch of us showing up at their houses on a Sunday morning to give a speech about LGBT issues from their front porch.
The part most people forget about is the "somebody else' platform" bit. They assume Twitter is a public forum similar to shouting in the middle of the town square. And to some extent they aren't wrong, and there has been grumblings about applying first amendment restrictions to social media since they in a lot of ways _are_ a public forum, despite being owned and operated by private interests. But until such laws come about, yeah.. you don't have any rights on Twitter that Twitter doesn't condone. The first amendment does not apply to private companies. Which of course is Elon's (purported) purpose in purchasing it - he thinks Twitter's restrictions are too harsh and apparently cares enough to spend $43bn to relax them. Of course he's just going to end up replacing those restrictions with a new set of restrictions because humanity has proven repeatedly that its not capable of being responsible when handed an open platform combined with anonymity. The trolls are always waiting in the wings and nobody likes to sit wading through thousands of repetitions of the same hateful, uninspired vitriol to find the occasional interesting message. The hatred isn't even the biggest problem with trolls - its the signal/noise ratio being dumpstered that really turns people away - even other trolls. I guess we'll see where Musk takes things. He's turned into a loudmouth idiot who likes to make very public remarks about things he has no concept of, but business and tech are two things he _does_ know pretty well and much of this PR stunt may end up leading to nothing once he's got enough information about Twitter's policies to understand why they're in place. Because at the end of the day, publicity or not, this is a large investment even at his level of wealth and he's going to want to see an ROI.
@@quintrankid8045 That's.. questionable, and falls in large part to the interpretation of the FCC's common carrier laws. Generally speaking if a "common carrier" wants protection, they aren't allowed to moderate the information on their service at all - they're either in control completely, or not at all. But that "recently" (over the past couple decades) has been getting reinterpreted somewhat in order to allow common carriers to filter out things that are explicitly illegal without losing their status (child porn in particular in the early days, but also "terrorist" activity after 9/11 and categories have been getting loosely added over time ever since). I don't think its yet been adjudicated whether social media platforms even _can_ fall under common carrier status, never mind what level of filtering and moderating they're able to do under that definition. Its a law that was constructed decades before the internet became widespread and there's lots of open questions about its applicability in the information age. I'm sure those questions will get answered eventually when somebody takes something too far and rulings have to be made, but for the most part everyone just keeps putting it off and letting things slide as best they can because nobody wants to really face the issue head on (especially if it ends up coming to the point of having to create entirely new regulations - nobody likes doing that. The FCC doesn't like writing them and companies definitely don't like abiding by them).
It's not confined to one group, nor is it literally every idea. I'm no libertarian, but goofball ideas on governing come from every direction. Hyperbole is like farting at the dinner table, pretty soon you're eating alone.
Funny fact. When I use Maori language on RU-vid, Twitter other social media it’s deemed inappropriate because it’s not recognised internationally as a language.😊
Hmmm. Wow. I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but unfortunately I'm not. It must completely explode their minds when people from the Cree territories in Canada post in their own language.
Really? I swear I've actually seen it written on RU-vid. I remember it because I love hearing the Maori language being spoken, and trying to keep up reading it with the spoken cadence and its quick syllables was giving me a problem. Is it every channel you've tried it on? Maybe the channel I saw it on had a paid feature bundle? I'm all confused and grumpy now.
Yep, he’s afraid people will realize that accessing/mining/processing all the materials that have to go into those batteries of his is just horrific on the environment and the people that live near or participate in all the mining and processing.
Yeah, I expect a slight loosening of hate-speech-related tos while increases in bans and other surpression of people ideologically opposed to him (pro-union, environmentallist, anti-imperialist, and anti-Musk sentiments) leading to a net _decrease_ in free speech on Twitter coinciding with an influx of far-right people and increase in openly expressed far-right sentiments. I'm not talking about a massive change, but considering how incredibly toxic Twitter already is, even a relatively small shift is a problem.
@@davidrule1335 Running Twitter doesn't seem like much fun. If all Elon cares about is profitability, that's one thing. But I get the sense that he wants to change how the platform works.
The useful things Elon has done for the world thus far: helped make electric cars popular and put attention back on space flight development. If he runs Twitter into the ground, out of existence, that would be a net positive in my book.
My worry is not that Twitter will become without moderation or rules: My worry is that Elon Musk could use the moderations and rules to push conversations that benefits him and his corporations. Perhaps even using the platform to help politicians who promise to give tax payer money to his corporation or to give them monopolies in future projects get elected to office (See Trump trying to cozy up to Musk and call him his GOOD FRIEND very soon...!)
That strikes me as less harmful than a publicly traded company. When it's private, there's just the one owner's interests, when there are multiple owners, there are multiple company's companies. It can be seen in Cable News for instance, where the shareholders and the advertisers control the narratives. Of course, it's still going to have the advertisers having outsized influence, but less than when publicly owned because a private company can choose to take losses for a while, focusing on long-term objectives, whereas publicly traded almost always has to maintain quarterly profits, which also makes them vulnerable to negative press coverage (providing the wealthy elites even more influence).
You are likely to see those who have an interest in him "not doing well" suggesting exactly those things. . However, since the majority of politicians in power have been let's say "Luke warm" towards "his corporations", it would take some fancy footwork on their part to swing their allegiance from either unions, or "traditional" automakers, or dealers, or fossil fuel lobbyists who have a LOT of money previously invested Maybe don't judge him by others (your?) standards?
I had Twitter for 2yrs. One day my husband said to me 'That app makes you so angry and upset why do you keep it?' I deleted my few posts, deleted the account and uninstalled it from my phone that night. Best decision next to quitting smoking that I've done. Don't really care if Twitter is consumed by the dumpster fire that it is. Thanks for the video, Beau.
4chan has mods lol, no clue what he's doing. Hope it tanks and is a huge loss for him, he should buy Facebook next. These social media sites just keep you plugged in and make you hate the people you actually know.
Basically, there's one of 2 things that happens. Either A) nothing really changes, or B) Twitter becomes the new Truth Network...and we already received Beau's analysis on what happened with that.
The EU just enacted rules that require moderation of exactly the type he said he wants to eliminate. So if he does what he says, he may find the European market closed to him.
@@darleneh608 the eu have passed some stupid laws in their day, fining google for being a monopoly, erm, yahoo, bing, ask jeeves etc. also fining microsoft for being a monopoly, erm google? or unix, linnux, solaris, OS/2 etc. and carrots are fruit. but oranges are not the only fruit.
I am seriously thinking of deleting my twitter account, I mostly stay away from FB too. I just check my local friends once or twice a month. I used twitter to communicate with people like you Beau. But twitter is toxic already, I only spend 10 - 15 minutes on it to post. Now it can only get worse. Elon sucks as a human being, just like Jeff Bezos.
@@MusicfromMarrs when there are no ads, and let's assume there are no additional fees.. Then you're the product being peddled.. Or rather, your information.
I've gone without twitter, tik toc, Instagram AND facebook (and a bunch of others I've long ago forgotten) and somehow managed to survive all these years... So you and me both.
I think he will block anyone who would have anything negative about him and his companies. Also I think he will use it to promote himself and whatever he wants.
Hey Beau, I have never been on Twitter, will probably never gi on Twitter. I don't really do social media, except Beau of the 5th column. No Instagram, no facebook.. However, I did write an old fashion letter, (the kind that go in mail boxes ) , to Elon Musk.Jeff bozos, and Warren Buffet.Asking them to utilize their great wealth to help house homeless people. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Thanks for all you do Beau.
Policies don't need to be removed. Policies just will be applied selectively. Just like the DoJ, Supreme Court and the entire US "justice"... One rule for Musk-ovites and another for the rest of the people.
you dont just end homelessness by throwing money at it. so is he supposed to just keep paying the bills once they have a house? what motivation would anyone have to do better then?
It's all a Ponzi scheme. A pyramid scam. Like selling Maybeline or Avon door-to-door. The more people YOU sign up, then all of those underlings make YOU money. The "YOU" in these scenarios being the future Bernie Madoffs of the next market crash. Edit: I meant to say MaryKay, not Maybeline, you know, those ugly MaryKay pink cars...
@@dsnodgrass4843 Nope. I'd think crypto bros would be the first to push them. Because crypto is a scam, and if you get into it you're generally either the con artist or the mark.
Becomes a sewer? All of the social media companies are already swimming in the sewer. Twitter is no different. The moderators do just enough to keep their nose above the deadly liquid so they don't drown, but they love the interaction that the stench gives their platform.
One of the best decisions of my life: staying off social media. When someone first described Facebook to me & urged me to join, I laughed, said, "Oh, what could possibly go wrong?" & walked away. So glad!!! 😁
@@JSkyGemini Do you know how big AI companies make bots move and express in a human like fashion? Using the raw data we give them for free in apps like Tiktok, where our kids show every range of emotion and gestures.
@@JSkyGemini Another example, Computer Vision enhances their algorithm when we solve those Captchas (the "choose every picture with a boat in it" thing). This way they train to imitate, also for free, the way the human eye sees and interprets images.
@@paolagrando5079 Because I don't think any good has come from them, to the users individually and society as a whole, although we do pay for the social costs they generate.
You are making me glad that I have never used Twitter, Facebook, the closest I come to social media is making comments on your U tube videos. My wife taught me how to email a few weeks ago. I am just recently becoming computer literate. Most people are amazed when I tell them this.
✌🏼 I hope he lets him back on and then truth social will fail even faster than it already is, and then Musk being fickle as he is kicks him off, that would be hilarious to me.
Will be doing the same. I had it once for the school district I worked in as they required it. I never used it though, just "followed" the district. It was nearly a decade ago. I hope I can figure out what the user/password is to delete it lol.
@@Mayham1991… it’s not the amount that’s the problem. It’s how it’s being used. “Donating to charity” is a tax move. It’s not done to actually fix the problem. It wasnt done philanthropically either. It’s purely performative.
Just curious, how does Musk, or anyone else, end world hunger ? - What does that take ? Musk donated $5.74B to charity in November and paid $11B in taxes. There are 2667 other billionaires in the world. Maybe we can get each of them to donate $5.74B to charity and pay $11B in taxes. That might do the trick.
The powers that be don’t want to end world hunger that’s the last thing they want. Think of how much power they’d lose without that leverage over people!
I left Twitter in 2016 when Donald Trump and all the Russian bots were bombarding me with crap. I was thinking of returning to Twitter but if Musk lets Trump back on Twitter then we are all lost. Twitter will become a trash mound, no serious opinions will be seen amongst the swamp of garbage.
"His lawyers will stop him". Isn't this the guy who got in trouble with the government two or more times for dumb stuff he said on Twitter that were seen as financial misdealing?
And isn't this the guy that launched one of his cars into outerspace 'just for fun'? And isn't this the guy who offered working flamethrowers on his website 'just for fun'? And... well, you get the picture. Does Musk even have 'lawyers'? Lol.
@@privatename3621 Well, actually he's the guy who promised flamethrowers, but delivered glorified blowtorches instead, after his lawyers advised him against it (as flamethrowers are legal in most states, but IIRC not all of them, at least not sans a special permit), and just continued calling them "flamethrowers" for cool guy cred regardless.
And he also violated SEC rules by failing to IMMEDIATELY disclose his purchase of over 5% stock (he had abt 9%). No Penalty -- again -- ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, ANOTHER FOR THE REST OF THE 98%!!
@@clarkpalace It's what Musk is reporting he will be paying. Most of the outlets I've seen say that they don't believe it. And Tesla is apparently not going to pay anything in Federal taxes.
