People forget that the only reason these people, companies, organizations, etc. exist is because we give them the power. If we all decided to discontinue our worship of these entities, they'd fall apart. But as this man is saying, he will not give up Twitter although he complains about it. The king is only king because the peasants believe he is king.
The whole social media phenomenon is absurd. It's sad to see intelligent, grown adults talking about being "addicted" to something as inane as Twitter.
@@AGirlofYesterday Many of the Greatest minds in the world are on Twitter btw. I follow diverse people such as Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mary Beard the Classicist, Queen's College Library, too many archeologist to name here...writers, chefs, engineers, medical experts.. etc etc. Lately it's fascinating to see all the Ukrainians posts. I joined Twitter in 2009 and don't get how people who have never used it have an opinion on it.
OTOH, we are social animals who communicate symbolically. Part of being human may be a need (felt more or less strongly in different people) to make some self-expression. But also, for some, a desire to put forth an argument and have it tested. The stronger the opponents, the greater the prize for effectively answering the critiques. (People desire to be 'tested by fire' because we become stronger when we strive to meet a great challenge.) A most diverse community (where fewest barriers to entry imply potential for maximum diversity) offers greatest promise that someone will see error if we are going awry. (Let's not allow an expressed concern about free speech to be dismissed as a sinister dog-whistle. People should be able to publicly embrace this most basic principle without fear of being accused of antisocial, antidemocratic attitudes.) We happen to be descended from animals much like us, including in that they felt compelled to express and to challenge ideas. The human societies that did that a little better may have survived and prospered at rates that were a lot better. Perhaps before we could evolve into animals who were good at sharing ideas, we had to evolve into animals who enjoyed interacting socially, verbally. We've evolved to respond with release of endorphins in certain social situations. (Maybe we should teach evolutionary psychology in middle school to help young people put their social media habits in a larger context.)
...about that echo chamber. With data collection, the powerful stand to manipulate not merely sectors of society, but entire nations as they conjoin to stabilize their privilege. Cloaking greed as if it' displays benevolent function further obscure the truth. Gaming the system as if capitalism is somekind of abstact purity of competitive market forces only serves to polarize what should be a natural dialogue between liberal and conservative rational perspectives. Sensibility tends to compromise competitive inertia with what cooperation for The Common Good entails. Our individual and shared humanity requires not merely a voice at the table, but the insured and uncompromized liberty to call that democratic meeting to order.
I question anyone who owns large corporations being able to own newspapers, news media in general, and public squares. That should not be allowed because they own the voices that should be questioning them “speaking truth to power”. This is wrong across the board and our politicians are sleeping behind the wheel.
You can thank Ronald Reagan who stopped enforcing the antitrust laws. Republicans have appointed the vast majority of the federal judiciary. An individual court cases they have repeatedly advanced the power of corporations and the one percent. The middle class is not a normal thing in any society. Without regulation and income redistribution in the form of progressive income tax, you will always have a very small number of very very rich people and a huge number of poor people. The only time the middle class has been stable in US history was the four decade period after world war II. During that time the top marginal tax rate was 71 to 91% and there were many fewer tax loopholes than currently. Rich people who are greedy and want to keep all their money which they mostly earned with some sort of public help (the interstate highway system, other public roads, the public part of the healthcare system which allows Walmart to pay workers so little that they have to be on welfare, are just a few of things that taxpayers pay for that benefit huge corporations. Almost all huge corporations pay little to no income tax well the tax burden on middle income and the working poor has increased drastically since 1980.
I’m 71 years old and have absolutely no reason to ever be on Twitter or any of these silly social sites. Come on folks, get out there and make friends and get information the old fashioned way…by engaging with others, by reading the news, by interacting physically, not through some screen. When I watch young people on the bus, eyes glued to their smart phones, I am saddened that they aren’t experiencing the real word outside the window. It’s autumn and the trees are glorious, a sight not to ever be missed! It is such a different world now, one I will be happy to leave in another 18-20 years because I have had such a rich life, filled with travel and experiences that young people might not be having. Ah, I sound like an oldie, I know! ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
I'm seven years older than you. Our generation has been the luckiest so far. But the 'Star Trek' future, where every human being is properly-nurtured to a dignified, educated and fully self-developed adult maturity, still awaits. We will surely have to *_work_* for it.
You are in a right frame of mind, as others below ...BUT... you might want to simply READ as I do, not do any tweeting, to get the current thoughts of very bright people who would otherwise be inaccessible. There is no way I could afford all the news / magazine subscriptions and scholarly paper access that is free on this site. Even though some very crass material appears there, most writers and public intellectuals value Twitter for this purpose.
@@prmaulden agreed- going online opens you up to a volume of sources and information that can not be duplicated, not even close, in the offline world. The outcome of this access, the quality of the experience and what it does to/for you, depends entirely on your own ability to discern the quality of your sources and the info/arguments they present. If you are inclined to only confirm your biases, and create a safe space bubble for yourself, it's very easy to do that, and even go down into a rabbit hole of misinformation and conspiracy theories.
This concern the usa has with freedom of speech is pure american bs. Looks like musk has finally pulled off the sophisticated mask of do gooding for humanity. I still have a shred of hope that musk isnt totally trumpian
"False advertisement" arguably is the proper term for what's being conveyed. "False flag" refers to when a group of people "disguise" themselves as another in an attack, in order to divert the guilt to that group.
The false flag is that Musk and the far right contend that their 1st amendment rights are disintegrated and have been and are currently under attack, while simultaneously attacking others who communicate demonstratable truths in opposition of their misinformation.....while then claiming to be victims. Free speech is what we have.(or had) Buying Twitter is a way to control information.
Great point by Scott about Bezos and Washington Post vs. Musk and Twitter with Twitter costing Musk 180x what Bezos paid for WaPo. Musk grossly overpaid for an essentially a worthless piece of junk that the world does not need and really has little value to either citizens or the world. WaPIo has 1,000x more value to the world than Twitter could ever even dream about.
He *does* disappoint: this video introduces an incorrect use of the metaphor "false flag." (Just after 9:00) It's only worth noticing because Galloway uses the phrase as if it were a technical term with a particular meaning which he wanted to deploy. It *is* a technical term. It doesn't mean what he is trying to say here. A false flag is not just any incorrect identification; a false flag is specifically the misidentification of a supposed wrong-doer to misdirect blame away from an actual culprit. Germany's attempt to claim that Poland had attacked it first in September 1939, planting the bodies of murdered Poles in uniforms and claiming they had been attackers, was a false flag operation. The flag of Poland was falsely attached to an attack. Claiming that Twitter needs freer speech is not a false flag; it is simply an opinion that Galloway disagrees with. We are in danger when people with great authority misuse language. They are threatening the underpinnings of our social commons. Galloway owes us a retraction and an apology.
@@TheDavidlloydjones The way he used the term makes sense to me. You are assuming that Musk is genuine when he says he wants more free speech. But if that's not really what he is after, then it could certainly be called a "false flag".
Great interview and great speaker. I've been disappointed all of today from terrible "analysis" by several networks and shows, great to finally have someone with a brain talk about it.
Anti Bully Hamster is a "Bot "account with " no content", .So you are someone that we need to listen to. NOT. People on the left are nothing of substance ,even their accounts are PHONY. just like they are. This "Anti Bully Hamster" account is a Phony account.
Scott acts like the Twitter board has our best interest in mind as a publicly traded company. I mean, come on ! Musk isnt about making money… Scott talks about the algorithms… thats exactly what Musk is advocating to open source, make them transparent. Guard rails ? The common stock holders of FB (Meta), Google and Twitter dont have an influence in how the platform monetizes, escalates or deescalates content. Musk is talking about removing the ad revenue aspect of twitter, thus reducing the weaponization of social media. Listen to what Musk has said… he understands free speech comes with limitations such as advocating violence. The secret to twitter’s “success is more moderation”… a black box of censorship? The argument is Musk wants the platform for himself to “kill a puppy of twitter space”, yikes ! This guy has an agenda. My take: books shouldn’t be burned or banned. The exchange of ideas on college campuses should be encouraged, not suppressed. Assholes and extremists can share their ideas… i dont want my information to be curated. No thank you. “Twitter is the most free platform with the least moderation…I argue this is a negative”… this guy doesnt have the answers… hyperbole. He doesnt want trump back on the platform… i dont like idiot trump either or the kkk or putin, dictators or assholes… I have more confidence in Musk… his intent is sound and he’s a fair individual (imo).
a big supporter of musk for this shit is larry elison the ceo of oracle. i bet musk doesnt open up the algorithm but shapes it to promote the political ideologies he has and knows it has influence over public opinion of elections. you should known by now elon musk is not altruistic in any sense, he is selfish, and quite petty
He’s a communist and a fascist! He’s an authoritarian! And he’s just actually wrong! But you people don’t get it because everybody commenting on here by in large is on the left and brainwashed!
@@JohnHoffman65 John, I responded to your question and the response got deleted. It’s late and I’m really tired having a long week. I will come back and respond again. I gave you a very long and detailed response and I don’t know why it disappeared. But funny things happen on RU-vid. Comments get deleted. They monkey with the like and dislike voting. Like all of big tech there’s a lot of shenanigans going on! But I will come back and answer your question again when I have more time. And I wrote a great response I hate that it got 86’d.
@@nedhill1242 I wasn’t online much yesterday . I appreciate your efforts and sorry I didn’t see your response before it was deleted. If you try again, I hope it stays up long enough for me to see.
Did the mean man say something bad about daddy Elon? Oh booo that mean man! But, do expound on your claims about Galloway being both a communist and a fascist simultaneously. You know that’s literally impossible? And claiming that Scott Galloway, an über capitalist (professor of marketing and an entrepreneur ffs) is an adherent of either system you mentioned is so far off base it’s fuckin’ hilarious. At least look the meaning of those words up in a dictionary because wherever/whoever you’re getting your ideas from has failed you. Dictionaries aren’t “brainwashed” , you’ll be safe there.
Best analysis of this situation I've yet to hear or read. I quit Twitter and Facebook in 2020. I catch up and waste less time with Reuters, the AP, the BBC, et al.
I decided last year I'd never buy a Tesla because of Elon. I deactivated my Twitter account, the last social media account I had, because of Elon. Enjoying life immensely without constantly looking to see how many people have "liked" a tweet or a post.
So it’s EM’s fault that you can’t have Your voice prioritized over people that disagree with You! Well that’s gone now, how does that Feel? Don’t bother I can see the long face. Level playing field will pull people away from less Transparent platforms. Get used to everyone having a voice because the Genie is Not going back in the bottle.
"The private square" is right. They don't dictate what I read and think about. There are many hard working journalists doing vital work independently that report on their own blogs and RU-vid channels. I don't need Twitter.
He was already a pro-censorship weirdo boomer before the Musk thing, and frankly Musk is a fraud. Galloway is too soft on him, apart from maybe Thunderf00t theres very few content makers that have the balls to go against him
Great interview!! I agree wholeheartedly with Galloways observations. I’m surprised Murdoch did not come up.. as an an example of what can go wrong with the wrong guy at the top.
Dear kathy, the Commissars are listening and feeling your pain: The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new board designed to counter misinformation related to homeland security, with a focus specifically on Russia and irregular migration. The board will be called the "Disinformation Governance Board," and will be headed by executive director Nina Jankowicz. And this just so happens to have been announced the day after a monopoly which had been under firm control of the US government went rogue when it was bought by a dissident free speech champion. With love, Your Friendly Commissar
FOX News has been the only network reporting any truth the past 2 years. all the left wing outlets have been nothing but propaganda pushers for the New World Order.
@@kreek22 I’m sure they’re going to take over the world and suppress ‘free speech’ everywhere and the end of times will soon arrive thereafter 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🙄🤣🤣🤣
Galloway is a marketing consultant on boards of marketing companies. Galloway HATES the guy who built the most revered brand on the planet (Tesla) without spending a nickle on marketing. Galloway has been asked to comment on Tesla building its brand without marketing when on stage. He clearly hates Tesla and Musk. Galloway has made criticizing Musk a full time job for about a year now. I usually like Amanpour, but wonder about some of the other "experts" they have on, knowing what I know about Galloway and his longstanding vendetta against Musk and Tesla.
6:42 "We're like a Tyrannosaurus rex, we like movement and violence" - Scott Galloway I think that's the best description of Merica that I've heard in a while. #FreeDumb
I like the fact so many people are against Musk. I don't love him as a person but I'm hopeful he can make Twitter free of censorship. If he does that, he is a hero and I would love to see all the naysayers scream in disbelief.
The essentials crisis is that our US Congress takes no action on regulation. We’re in “ free market free fall.” There is no top for how much money Elon has vs Jeff, and no bottom, for how low it will all go. Hang on to your hats
The Commissars are on the case: The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new board designed to counter misinformation related to homeland security, with a focus specifically on Russia and irregular migration. The board will be called the "Disinformation Governance Board," and will be headed by executive director Nina Jankowicz.
I’m always writing my reps. About media regulation and every other thing- environmental protections, war in Ukraine, the criminal last president not being indicted yet…( yes, President Biden needs to light a fire under Garland, or get an AG who knows how to prosecute traitors)..But how does that help? Why do I- you- we- have to write them to ask them to do the right thing? Only $$ talks . The Putinistas are ruled by BLOTUS and they’re breaking the country. That’s why I also “ complain on social media.” When’s the last time your letter got the result you asked for? Cheerio
Galloway makes a few fair points about this event, but his bias is too, too evident. His plea that "we have boards of directors" between some billionaire owners and the communicators.....as if that isn't the key problem with Twitter right now....a heavily skewed board of directors and a skewed algorithm. Does this clever man really think Elon is going to depend on individuals to check the algorithm? Of course not! Most people understand that his magnetism for brilliant people who want to make a difference for good in this world will draw experts to open that code for those of us using magical new tech with little ability to control it. Sad to say, we should be grateful for the history of abuse Musk endured in his youth that drives him to work for the good of humanity.
“His critics” are just venting their opinions, which is fine as far as free speech goes, but the real problem is misinformation. Opinions and insults don’t affect our lives directly. But people who vote for people who DO affect our lives are influenced by completely bogus and dangerous information that is spread by this and other platforms.i
The “real problem” is grown adults not knowing how to navigate information and wanting other grown adults to be treated like children by shielding them from “misinformation.”
I don't believe in Musk's free-speech-at all-costs mania. However, I also fear the dystopia of a world where the most influential voices are those who can afford multi thousand dollar per month subscription fees.
Thank God for Elon Musk. He is a billionaire but has little in common with 99% of billionaires. We are already under the control of the super-rich corporatist. The only way to fight back is to have a maverick billionaire, who is willing to take on Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, and the rest who all have only one goal in life, to be even richer. It is Musk diversity o thinking which is an extremely rare ability in this rarified class.
@@heatherc2939 He hasn't implemented his new guidelines yet. The disgruntle Twitter employees are the ones that banned you for life. They are pissed. Too much misinformation is being pushed around about Elon Musk. This is crazy.
Much respect for Professor Scott Galloway. If Musk and Twitter go the way of 4chan people will leave. I think Musk bit off more than he can chew, but we shall see. Interesting interview for sure.
subscription is a good model because it removes influence from advertisers and it also removes the ability for the mob to dictate what content advertisers can and should be running ads on. it really takes a lot of the politics out of it. I think a very high % of people will pay a small fee for a superior product.
Elon is obviously the smartest person alive right now. I trust him and his brilliant team ,to set a moral standard that other social platforms will be forced to adopt, or go Broke. He doesn’t Need to charge a fee (obviously), but I too would pay a small fee if that’s what it takes to perfect the experience.
These media companies also have a plethora of personal and private information, that makes members vulnerable to identity theft. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all !
It's refreshing to see someone who doesn't feel it necessary to belittle Musk's very real and very important contributions at Tesla and SpaceX, to express concern about how grossly inappropriate and, frankly, ill-prepared Musk is to lead Twitter.
Let me guess you’re a Democrat? Scott Galloway is a fascist authoritarian. He loves mandates he loves lockdowns he doesn’t want freedom of speech that’s clear! And he loves the government colluding with big tech which is the definition of fascism! Way to go you’re the one that’s brainwashed buddy!
@@colingenge9999 Wow, Colin, you are triggered. Twitter triggered. Are we losing that freedom too? The freedom to leave a social media site, for whatever reason, without being maligned? Have fun in Musk mania.
Why don't you stay on Twitter and continue expressing your point of view. The more voices the better. Make your case and let others make theirs. I'm more than happy to entertain all sides.
what? people came here for all sorts of different reasons, it was not necessarily to be free, my direct ancestor on my dads side came here from germany after the March Revolution failed and he sold his portion of his dairy farm his father left him and his siblings to his brother and moved to kentucky with his new wife. not too many years later civil war breaks out, enlists with the union and ends up fighting at some of the most brutal battles of the war and died of cirrhosis at like 50. he was more just bouncing because he had partaken in a revolution and on the losing side, and was not really trying to die or be punished.
A subscription model?! People won't start paying for what they've become accustomed to having for free. Something new will come along before you know, and render Twitter as irrelevant as MySpace.
Maybe not everyone, but it will increase quality by ridding bots by charging just a couple bucks a month. The newspaper industry is getting away from the ad model too. Most local papers die, but the NYT, WSJ, etc.. are proving people are willing to pay for what they value. No exception here.
It would be a charge only for those with millions of followers. And yes, they would pay; unquestionable how much marketing value they get from such a following (and no inherent reason why twitter shouldn’t capture part of that value it bestows).
And this hapless ego-maniac might lose millions or billions. How sad. (Meanwhile, his electric roadster circles the sun, as a testament to his warped perspective of the universe he is a part of.)
this is a poorly researched video by Amnanpoor. I expected much better from her show. Musk has indicated what he is going to do with twitter. Its quite brilliant yet no one understands what it is. Instead here your guy just keep making blind assumptions again and again. Educate your team on 'open source' In addition, The hosts comment 'what's he getting wrong about this free speech question?' ..... other than sounding arrogant, also reveals the lack of education he or his guest have regarding what premise, principals, and deductive narratives Elon Musk's thought process include. He has vast knowledge of history, philosophy, religion, banking, economics, physics, chemistry, astrophysics, thermodynamics, rocket science, programming, AI and many many more subjects. He is a polymath .............. If you think you know what he is up to you do not. He literally laid it out in detail, you did not read it. Ms. Amanpoor, Ive been watching your news broadcasts since I was a teenager. I could not watch past min 10. The inaccuracy was hard to bare. This whole segment sounds very out of touch. As a gen-x in his late 40s I can tell you that this type of rhetoric is outdated, imagine how the newer generation views this type of inaccurate analysis. I am finding it harder and harder to enjoy well prepared news on basic technology through this type of media. Expand your horizons on newer technologies, PLEASE!.
All of the members of my household have uninstalled the app on our devices and deactivated our accounts. Now, we have to wait a month for the accounts to be automatically deleted.
I read that power not guided by love and wisdom is always abuse. Mr. Musk history does not point to the development of love and wisdom. The intellect is in service to the ego and whatever drives the ego.
Scott Galloway just verbalized all the vague misgivings I've had about Musk controlling Twitter 100%. Musk doesn't have the self-control to be responsible for such a powerful tool. With 100% freedom of speech should come 100% sense of responsibility for consequences of that speech. Musk seems too emotionally immature to understand this.
Galloway is entertaining and conventionally thoughtful, but ultimately a lightweight. He's been retrospectively wrong about Musk every time he opens his mouth about him because he has a fundamental misreading of the man, his motives and his capacities. He's not directly part of the Greek Chorus of Musk-haters because he thinks himself an iconoclast. But he regardless suffers a failure to imagine just how different the world looks to someone of Musk's accomplishments. There is a lot that is not understood about creating a dynamic and *healthy* public forum at global scale, which means that Musk will make mistakes -- just as he did scaling Tesla -- but he genuinely and sincerely aspires to his declared goals, which means he learns from his mistakes and improves. We are lucky that such a person has decided to pursue the number of consequential public good goals he has.
Free speech advocates and those calling for truth in journalism should review the past decade and witnessed the fire hose of outright lies that have been generated about Tesla in particular. Every person I talk to will announce four or five criticisms of of Tesla that have been generated by the Fossil Fuel lobby and are the only information in bedded in your consciousness about Tesla. It’s only because of a faithful group of followers and customers that Tesla has any success at all which speaks volumes about the immense quality of their products virtually unheard of in this generation.
Agreed. Musk appears to be a fundamentally moral person attempting to move society forward. He admits he is often wrong and makes mistakes. I may disagree with his take or methods on certain things, but I'm glad someone like him is trying to accomplish aspirational goals for humanity. When you look at the many other billionaires who appear to be vacuous power mongers, Musk is doing pretty wonderful things and I'd rather have him in charge of Twitter. Do people have to freak out about every living thing that happens in this world?
@@aaronz. Aaron, sensibly stated. People who don’t follow Elon, have no clue how important a figure he is. I think he’ll be the most important person this century.
@@colingenge9999 I'm with you. It's not hero worship. It's taking the time to understand his worldview beyond the headlines and generally being sympatico. I agree with him that we have this "dim light of consciousness" we are fortunate to have developed, and we should do what we can to responsibly carry it into the future.
Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and now Elon Musk to a great extent now decide what is and what isn't discussed in our "democracies". "“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”" ― Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
Noam Chomsky is a dog food sales man. "Strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion", who gets to decide that and why would any one put up with it. Will Musk do that, nobody should stay on Twitter if he does. The people who are crying the most about Musk owning twitter all ready limit free speech and none of them said a word when Suckerberg spent millions on the last election. You are damning Musk before he has done anything.
Having lived my whole life in the South Africa that Mr. Musk grew up in, I have appreciation for the value he seems to place on free speech. I understand that this is something that the opinionated Mr. Galloway might fail to grasp. As for Mr. Musk's tactless candour, I should point out that this personality trait is quite mild compared to that of some of his former compatriots. We have not yet seen what will happen regarding Twitter. Give the man the benefit of the doubt.
I love the people who answer people talking about "First amendment/free-speech principles," by pointing out that they're private entity and therefore aren't subject to the First amendment. No kidding, hence the word "principles." Democracy needs more moderation: what a BS artist. This guy is just another one of these people that does nothing in good faith, as does this show for having him and not pushing back on his claims that "people can say whatever they want." That's only true if you say something that's in the "acceptable opinion " category, if you don't you're gone. What can't we say?: -NY Post being removed for reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story. -anyone who questioned whether COVID came from a lab. There are 2 off the top of my head. This is why we're watching an extinction level event, in real time, for these media outlets. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
When Galloway says that others are inappropriately conflating legal protections on free speech with communication mediums like Twitter, he himself is inappropriately conflating the lack of legal obligations that companies that control those mediums have to protect free speech with their moral obligations to do so. Freedom of speech is not just a set of legal protections; it's a societal principle that all communications by all people in the public square should be protected (with the exception of things that endanger others, like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater). That is vital to the health of open, free, and democratic societies. Galloway tries to sidestep that argument by describing Twitter as a "private square", as if that communication medium being not technically legally owned by society as a whole somehow makes it any less of a basic and vital means that we use as a society to express our voices and hear others' voices. If we accept that freedom of speech needs to be protected in all public squares, how do we ensure that it's protected in those that are not legally owned by the public as a whole? In the specific case of Twitter, I think that Musk's idea of making the algorithm open-source is a good first step. But what if it were to at some later point come under the ownership of some person or body that had fewer moral compunctions about intentionally manipulating the algorithm to affect public attitudes on an issue? The sorts of internal institutional guardrails that Galloway mentions could help protect against or delay that, but ultimately it with be up to the public ourselves to develop a strong valuing of those free speech protections and a willingness to use our market powers (e.g. a willingness to boycott) to defend them.
Why would any government in world forfeit the surveillance-manipulation machinery built by Facebook, Google, Twitter, and their Deep State partners? Only Revolution of a thorough-going variety would threaten their adamantine grip on power. Otherwise, the sheep merely find themselves under the watch of much more capable shepherd than heretofore, an Argus Panoptes equipped also with mind-reading ability and an hundred tiny prodders for each sheep in his domain.
Galloway is thoughtful but there is zero difference between Musk having the influence they fear and the management of Twitter. It doesn't matter how news is slanted. What matters is the slant, whether imposed by one man or by a small clique of managers.
At least Musk wants to let people have freedom of speech, unlike the previous owners which only allowed freedom of speech for those who they agreed with.
With Musk it's more about ego He is a wild card so who knows what he will do. I'm not on Twitter nor do I plan to sign up. Twitter is just one more human addiction that can get out of control
If Twitter is considered as a private platform, then people ought to be able to sue Twitter for defamation if statements published there are damaging to others. A platform can’t be considered private without being hold responsible for what is published there.
Interesting perspective, but I agree with Caro rather than the guest: power doesn't corrupt --- it *reveals*. What power reveals about Musk is not flattering. Every time Musk has acquired power, he's stolen credit for things he'd had little to no hand in creating/developing, elevated himself at the expense of partners/colleagues/family, driven out dissenters from rightful positions (often with cruelty + humiliation, for petty or inexplicable reasons), flouted + disregarded public regulations, & lied, manipulated, confabulated, + bullsh*tted simply to get his way, on the nonsensical assumption that anything Musk deems good must be good. There is no such thing as a "good" billionaire.
There are laws that govern regulate & monitor private, public, corporate, private companies & organizations. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!
Never thought we would be censored like this 20 years ago. And not only the media, government as well. In Sweden they discuss making burning the Quaran illegal. Which would mean, limiting critique of religion. In a time when islam has such a negative impact on Europe.
That is not dissimilar to lamenting that some people "derive their feeling and thinking about the world" from private conversations with friends. Dumb people have dumb friends and dumb Twitter experiences. Smart people....
Musk is open sourcing the algorithm. All that is all that needs to be said. Claiming that CNN+’s abject failure is due to Netflix’s demise is dubious at best. Mendacity at worst.
Musk says a lot of things that aren’t true or never come to pass. I’ll wait till I see it. Just like I’ll wait for the cyber truck in 2021, Tesla bot, Tesla semi in 2019, Full self driving 2018, 2019 2021 and 2022. Hyper loop and A crewed mission to Mars in 2024.
Thanks for the intelligent discussion. I was particularly wondering how Musk planned to unlock the value of Twitter, since $44 billion seemed way too much to pay for it. The idea of charging a subscription based on the number of followers an account has (perhaps on a sliding scale) is brilliant. You're correct when you say that big companies (like Apple for example) would pay millions to keep their accounts open.
@@whatever-ep5cq Another phony account from the Left.That doesnt understand that Musk isnt interested in making money anymore you idiots ,he already has more money than any of you can comprehend .For you to Suspect His goal is Profitability ,show your IGNORANCE .Its not about Money, Its really about FREE SPEECH Moron. Something you cant relate to.
All of this reminds me of my very fundamentalist upbringing. For instance, they believed watching bad tv shows or listening to non approved music would make me become d3mon possessed. They made the 1983 East German stasi look like a Miami dance party host. My point being, I’d rather have less restrictions even if you’re inundated with mis information and bad faith actors than strict “parental” controls. It’s bad anthropology. Trust me, I’ve lived it.
Galloway has some thoughtful and important things to say about Mr. Musk’s. Couple points I would like to add: 1. Musk did not buy Twitter to make money with it although his instinctive inclination will probably allow him to succeed anyway. He started out knowing nothing about building rockets, cars and tunnels and became the most successful business and all three at the same time in a decade. 2. Musk can appear to be juvenile at times but when it comes down to cracking difficult problems in business he may be the best of all time. 3. Musk’s often repeated philosophy of business is to fail early and fail often but to learn the maximum from each mistake. The fact that he may be making some incorrect moves at the beginning does not mean that he is incapable of listening to someone like Galloway who he probably respects. At least enough to call him names. 4. Musk‘s philosophy and the reason why he works at an insane pace is that he may be the strong humanitarian that the world needs to prevent its political and social systems from flying apart. He actually thinks that the global order will fail catastrophically because statistically it would be very difficult for the world’s greedy power structures from creating a world ending apocalypse.
I disagree. I believe social media IS the public square even though it’s privately owned. I think social media is a brand new phenomena and we need unique methods to manage it. You either make it completely transparent with very few limits on use (eg death threats), or I want heavy govt regulation like a utility. I will not tolerate it being in private hands run by political ideologues.
JohnR22926 You think that you have anything to say about who owns anything ,because you say here that" you will not tolerate it being in private hands run by political ideologues" Who do you think is running it now you idiot.
The ability to question/challenge the various hegemonies would be a welcome change. Current moderation flags "wrong" keywords too close together and suspends accounts. Appeals from non-verified suspended accounts are generally ignored. The idea that a board of directors, beholden to shareholders, prioritizing profit, is a better set of "guardrails" than an individual exercising personal values is unfounded. A corporation is amoral. An individual can be driven by misguided values but an individual can also choose to ignore greed and pressure from insiders and elites. Musk's leadership may end up on the whole being worse. It seems inevitable that it must in some ways be worse. But given the way that the current twitter leadership is thumbing the scales I am cautiously optimistic Musk's stewardship will be an improvement.
The abstract ideal of a corporation is amoral. Real corporations are run by real people with real moral commitments, for good or ill. Disney recently picked a fight with Florida's governor for what appear to be (im)moral reasons.
I love the pearl clutching! It's apparently not such a problem with billionaires controlling media outlets as it is whether a billionaire gives voice to the hoi polloi.
Sadly, the cost to the USA will make 44 billion look like chump change. The dopamine thing is very astute, I think. The USA is utterly and totally addicted to a dopamine hit every few minutes. It is one of the root causes of the deep problems, and incredible mental sickness which grips the USA today. Greed and lack of empathy is another. The next big problem is the general inability to listen. Actual listening is mostly a lost art in the USA - and it's not alone, either. People also seem to have forgotten that you don't have to hate someone because they have a different view to you. It's not necessary to demonise another's legitimate views. But that is what both parties are now doing. The far right is far more guilty of this than your right wing, however. Because it is certainly true there is no liberal or progressive party in the USA in 2022. The democrats today have a manifesto which is almost indistinguishable from the right wing platforms of the 1950s.
that is the most wasteful purchase i've ever seen- its only a computer program to share your thoughts- shit for 1/10th that kind of money you could start your own!!! its a shame that anyone can have that kind of wealth- specially with all the urgent needs around the world like healthcare, the climate, the war, the 6th great extinction (shit he could buy 1/10th of the Amazon Jungle and preserve it!) etc. i am quickly losing my admiration for the guy- his drive to go to live on mars is also nuts. he should have created an affordable elec. car years ago!!!!
I have faith in Elon. Guy has showed over and over again he is trying to do something good for humanity. Competing ideas over last 2 years were suppressed and there’s a large group of people don’t care because it fits narrative at that time.
