Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Smangus]

Nuff said.

 

[Yossarian]

Given how many threads people keep starting on the twat, do we need a Musk subforum?

Maybe Trump could go in there as well

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

UK security officials monitor Elon Musk's social media posts

A Home Office team is tracking the reach and impact of posts by the tech mogul and others for security risks.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pesh]

You know whoever has been given that role must have done something really bad.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

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Oh how we dream of what could have been.

 

[Dogsauce]

UK security officials monitor Elon Musk's social media posts

A Home Office team is tracking the reach and impact of posts by the tech mogul and others for security risks.

www.bbc.co.uk

Unfortunately he’ll love that, the attention, and getting to play the martyr, sacrificing himself for “free speach. The man they wanted to cancel. It’s a gift to him.

 

[moochedit]

You know whoever has been given that role must have done something really bad.

 

[moochedit]

Unfortunately he’ll love that, the attention, and getting to play the martyr, sacrificing himself for “free speach. The man they wanted to cancel. It’s a gift to him.

* Goes to check if he has reacted to it yet *

 

[A380]

 

[BigMoaner]

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[yield]

I want to see Musk, Trump, the AfD, Reform etc. destroyed by any means necessary, but preferably the most violent means imaginable.

Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party

Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics

www.theguardian.com

Not sure if this is already posted?

Elon Musk hosts leader of Germany’s far-right AfD on X ahead of election
9 Jan 2025

Elon Musk has urged German voters to get behind the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in next month’s national election during a broadcast with the party’s leader.

The United States technology billionaire, who is set to have a role in the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump, live-streamed his conversation with Alice Weidel, the AfD’s candidate for chancellor, via his social media platform X on Thursday.

More than 190,000 X accounts tuned into the chat, which saw Musk introducing Weidel as “the leading candidate to run Germany”, warning viewers that they should vote for the party “otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany”.

“Only AfD can save Germany. End of story,” he said.

 

[BigMoaner]

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Love the fact that he’s shoehorned “interesting” in there as well.

 

[PTK]

I imagine that, during the rise to power of Hitler, there were newspaper vendors who sold the Nazi Party newspaper, and, after the fall of Hitler, denied that they bore any responsibility for facilitating his rise to power.

Musk incited racist violence on the streets of Britain last Summer.

Musk’s recent comments are racist incitement of the same type that Hitler and Goebbels would make. Jewish people were accused of being part of a conspiracy to rule the world and crush the “Aryan people”, and now Musk accuses people of Pakistani heritage in Britain of being engaged in genocide.

To use X/Twitter is to facilitate Musk. Without any users, there would be no advertisers, and X would receive no income.

I think that the British government should block X in this country.

It should also take a court case against Musk for defamation of Jess Phillips and for incitement to racial violence in this country.

In the meantime, I think that all anti-racists with X accounts should deactivate them.

 

[magneze]

100%. Every user on Twitter is worth some amount of money to Musk. Take that value away from him.

 

[keybored]

It's very interesting though that the one regime he does not criticise is China, he seems to be aware of the fact there is still one government that wouldn't hesitate to cut him down to size.

Brazil?

 

[MickiQ]

Brazil?

Brazil has banned Twitter a ban which is ineffective and largely ignored not least of which since Starlink is a major Internet provider there. He does however have massive business interests in China and if he pisses off the regime there then unlike Western regimes they will not hesitate to start confiscating his assets.

 

[magneze]

One example here is how X and other business interests directed by Musk went through the motions of opposing the order of the Brazilian Supreme Court to take down offending material, only to capitulate and to perform the obligations imposed by the Brazilian judicial system and local law. X huffed and puffed, but the only house that was blown down was its own.
This corporate weakness in the face of determined state action should not be surprising. In any ultimate battle, the state will prevail over a corporation for the simple reason that a corporation as a legal person only has legal existence and entitlements to the extent set out by legislation. Those who control the law can, if they want, control and tame any corporate in their jurisdiction.
This is why, for example, the most powerful corporation the world had then seen — the East India Company — was summarily dissolved by the British parliament in 1874. It is also why the Bell System of telecommunications companies was broken up by US antitrust law and policy in the 1980s. Companies can be very powerful — but there is always something stronger on which they depend for legal recognition.

For a corporation in the predicament of Meta this makes perfect commercial sense, even if it does violence to previously expressed sentiments. This is not an example of a company suddenly acting irrationally, but of a company rationally responding to one political development so as to facilitate defeating a regulatory challenge.
And it is not the only tactic serving this broader commercial strategy. The leaders of many tech companies have every interest in promoting the new US government and in weakening resolve in the EU. Member states with leaders sympathetic to Trump, such as Hungary and Italy, are being courted alike so that EU policy can be weakened from the inside.
The tech giants are adopting this robust strategy not because they are strong — they know that, like X in Brazil, they cannot take on any determined government or legal system in a significant market and win. They are doing this because they know they are weak, and that they need allies. Their business model depends upon it.

https://archive.ph/qOLed

Excellent article. Previously posted in wrong thread.

 

[Maltin]

Brazil has banned Twitter a ban which is ineffective and largely ignored not least of which since Starlink is a major Internet provider there. He does however have massive business interests in China and if he pisses off the regime there then unlike Western regimes they will not hesitate to start confiscating his assets.

As far as I am aware, Twitter is not banned in Brazil.

It was unblocked in October after Twiter complied with Brazilian law.

Blocking of Twitter in Brazil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Boo Radley75]

UK security officials monitor Elon Musk's social media posts

A Home Office team is tracking the reach and impact of posts by the tech mogul and others for security risks.

www.bbc.co.uk

What for? He's blatantly trying to stir people up to overthrow the democratically elected government of the UK, already and they're still doing fuck all about it.

 

[Serene]

He is becoming a real nuisance to lots of people around the world.

 

[tim]

He is becoming a real nuisance to lots of people around the world.

Accidents do happen, particularly to badly programned self- driving vehicles, so he'd better steer clear of the Peripherique

 

[Orang Utan]

He is becoming a real nuisance to lots of people around the world.

This astonishing insight has rocked my world

 

[BigMoaner]

A second plane just flew into the other tower!

 

[agricola]

What for? He's blatantly trying to stir people up to overthrow the democratically elected government of the UK, already and they're still doing fuck all about it.

TBF Musk is only doing what most of Fleet Street are doing, albeit in a way that suggests he was recently knocked unconscious.

 

[tim]

What for? He's blatantly trying to stir people up to overthrow the democratically elected government of the UK, already and they're still doing fuck all about it.I don't

I don't think he has advocated armed insurrection, yet. Until he does, there's not much that the British state can do.

 

[BigMoaner]

Apparently the internet has caught him in another quite substantial lie. He is not the number one ranked gamer for certain games that he claims he is, rather it appears he’s been buying high performing accounts, paying certain players to pretend they are him. It’s often been touted in interviews with him as another sign of his alien like genius which he has always affirmed and lapped up. Total bullshit according to some deep dives in Reddit. For example there’s footage of him playing a game where he is supposedly in the top ten in the world and it’s clear he’s a total novice. All over YouTube at the moment

 

[BigMoaner]

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[Coffeecup]

Everyone is laughing at him.
What exactly has Musk invented?

 

[Lord Camomile]

What for? He's blatantly trying to stir people up to overthrow the democratically elected government of the UK, already and they're still doing fuck all about it.

So that the media can report they said they would, I guess.

 

[PR1Berske]

Apparently the internet has caught him in another quite substantial lie. He is not the number one ranked gamer for certain games that he claims he is, rather it appears he’s been buying high performing accounts, paying certain players to pretend they are him. It’s often been touted in interviews with him as another sign of his alien like genius which he has always affirmed and lapped up. Total bullshit according to some deep dives in Reddit. For example there’s footage of him playing a game where he is supposedly in the top ten in the world and it’s clear he’s a total novice. All over YouTube at the moment

Fortnite streamers have been catching out him and his alter egos for a while. They've made a game of it.