The richest man in the world, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, made an offer to purchase the Twitter platform for a price of $41 billion. The offer represents a value of 38% more than the current evaluation. [SEC FILING HERE] The offer is filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposing a full takeover for $54.20 per share in cash.
Within the filing Elon Musk states his intentions:
“I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it. (SEC LINK)
What Elon Musk appears to be doing is perhaps the biggest story that few understand.
I share this perspective having spent thousands of hours in the past several years deep in the weeds of tech operating systems, communication platforms, and the issue of simultaneous users. What Twitter represents, and what Musk is attempting, is not what most would think.
In the big picture of tech platforms, Twitter, as an operating model, is a massive high-user commenting system.
Twitter is not a platform built around a website; Twitter is a platform for comments and discussion that operates in the sphere of social media. As a consequence, the technology and data processing required to operate the platform does not have an economy of scale.
There is no business model where Twitter is financially viable to operate…. UNLESS the tech architecture under the platform was subsidized.
In my opinion, there is only one technological system and entity that could possibly underwrite the cost of Twitter to operate. That entity is the United States Government, and here’s why.
Unlike websites and other social media, Twitter is unique in that it only represents a platform for user engagement and discussion. There is no content other than commentary, discussion and the sharing of information – such as linking to other information, pictures, graphics, videos url links etc.
In essence, Twitter is like the commenting system on the CTH website. It is the global commenting system for users to share information and debate. It is, in some ways, like the public square of global discussion. However, the key point is that user engagement on the platform creates a massive amount of data demand.
Within the systems of technology for public (user engagement) commenting, there is no economy of scale. Each added user represents an increased cost to the operation of the platform, because each user engagement demands database performance to respond to the simultaneous users on the platform. The term “simultaneous users” is critical to understand because that drives the cost.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Twitter has approximately 217 million registered daily users, and their goal is to expand to 315 million users by the end of 2023. Let me explain why things are not what they seem.
When people, users, operate on a tech platform using the engagement features, writing comments, hitting likes, posting images, links etc, the user is sending a data request to the platforms servers. The servers must then respond allowing all simultaneous users to see the change triggered by the single user.
Example: when you hit the “like” button feature on an engagement system, the response (like increasing by one) must not only be visible to you, but must also be visible to those simultaneously looking at the action you took. If 100,000 simultaneous users are looking at the same thing, the database must deliver the response to 100,000 people. As a result, the number of simultaneous users on a user engagement platform drives massive performance costs. In the example above, a single action by one person requires the server to respond to 100,000 simultaneous users with the updated data.
As a consequence, when a commenting platform increases in users, the cost not only increases because of that one user, the cost increases because the servers need to respond to all the simultaneous users. Using CTH as an example, 10,000 to 15,000 simultaneous commenting system users, engaging with the servers, costs around $4,500/mo.
This is why most websites, even big media websites, do not have proprietary user engagement, i.e. commenting systems. Instead, most websites use third party providers like Disqus who run the commenting systems on their own servers. Their commenting systems are plugged in to the website; that defers the cost from the website operator, and the third party can function as a business by selling ads and controlling the user experience. [It also sucks because user privacy is non existent]
The key to understanding the Twitter dynamic is to see the difference between, (a) running a website, where it doesn’t really matter how many people come to look at the content (low server costs), and (b) running a user engagement system, where the costs to accommodate the data processing -which increase exponentially with a higher number of simultaneous users- are extremely expensive. Twitter’s entire platform is based on the latter.
There is no economy of scale in any simultaneous user engagement system. Every added user costs exponentially more in data-processing demand, because every user needs a response, and every simultaneous user (follower) requires the same simultaneous response. A Twitter user with 100 followers (simultaneously logged in) that takes an action – costs less than a Twitter user with 100,000 followers (simultaneously logged in), that takes an action.
If you understand the cost increases in the data demand for simultaneous users, you can see the business model for Twitter is non-existent.
Bottom line, more users means it costs Twitter more money to operate. The business model is backwards from traditional business. More customers = higher costs, because each customer brings more simultaneous users….. which means exponentially more data performance is needed.
User engagement features on Twitter are significant, because that’s all Twitter does. Not only can users write comments, graphics, memes, videos, but they can also like comments, retweet comments, subtweet comments, bookmark comments, and participate in DM systems. That is a massive amount of server/data performance demand, and when you consider simultaneous users, it’s almost unimaginable in scale. That cost and capacity is also the reason why Twitter does not have an edit function.
With 217 million users, you could expect 50 million simultaneous users on Twitter during peak operating times. My back of the envelope calculations, which are really just estimations based on known industry costs for data performance and functions per second, would put the data cost to operate Twitter around at least $1 billion per month (minimum). In 2021, Twitter generated $5.1 billion in revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.
There is no business model, even with paying subscribers, for Twitter to exist. As the business grows, the costs increase, and the costs to subscribers would grow. So, what is going on?
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery.
BREAKING: As @elonmusk offers to buy the rest of @Twitter a legal source tells @FoxBusiness @SECGov and @TheJusticeDept have launched what he described as a "joint investigation" into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving @Tesla https://t.co/TDFLED1XuI
— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) April 14, 2022
This guy gets it. 👇 This is the bigger picture dynamic. https://t.co/fsSuMo8Lwl
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) April 14, 2022
“I share this perspective having spent thousands of hours in the past several years deep in the weeds of tech operating systems, communication platforms, and the issue of simultaneous users.”
I had to chuckle at this. Most of us who have been around here for some time have become family like. We know your rabbit holes. We go down them too; just not as deep. Unfortunately Twitter is not the end of our government involvement in big biz. It’s one of the most important however due to its ability to reach the masses. It’s pretty clear our govt has used bribes and threats to strong arm some of our biggest corps. And some of the really large corps (multinationals) have strong armed the government.
Quite the display of Fascism. Doesn’t matter (Communism or Fascism) Totalitarian control is the end game.
Disagree. Twitter is not a real-time communication system. It’s basically multimedia e-mail with advertisements embedded.
It didn’t start that way and doesn’t have to stay that way. The Libs have turned an honest free speech platform into an effective political tool that can and has effected election results through selective censoring and manipulation of information. WE need to stop accepting things that can be changed.
I would vote for Elon Musk over any candidate in the wind today, simply because he believes in the free exchange of ideas.
I’ve never seen an advertisement on Twitter. Where are they?
IKR?
The idea of “simultaneous users” all getting updates that propagate instantly is highly flawed. If you use twitter you can see that there is a delay and a rhythm to the updates. That’s likely because the client side uses a refresh interval in between database queries. And it is likely that the largest accounts and posts have a bit more redundancy on the database side to handle the extra traffic, which should make financial sense if they are the ones generating the most engagement, eyeballs, and therefore advertising dollars. Not saying it’s a great business. Still, this argument doesn’t seem to hold up to technical scrutiny.
You have no idea what you are commenting on. Only a handful of tech people understand the issue with simultaneous users. The “delay” you reference -which doesn’t exist on twitter tech- is packeting ajax calls into segments of assigned requests to a server (ex packet 100 then transmit). It is done by some start up social media groups (likely including Gab) in order to try and offset server performance costs. That said, Twitter doesn’t use packeted processing.
Cowboy Elon was in Texas last week celebrating the opening of another new Tesla gigafactory.
If I’m right Elon is much more interested in shinning a strong dose of sunlight on Twister than buying it. With millions of followers made aware of free speech as one the golden bullet points, exposing the manipulators of information.
He’s a light year ahead in manipulating these sick censuring people.
Now the govt will be after him maliciously like they were (and still are) against President Trump, who also dared to expose their rot. It’s hard for even a billionaire like Elon to go up against a corrupt entity that controls the justice department, the media, and has unlimited funding. Praying enough eyes are opened.
I hope I am wrong, but given Musk’s track record, I really think he is bloviating for his own ego and hoping for legitimacy as the *saviour* of free speech.
Look at it this way, even if he doesn’t do anything and his *offer* to buy Twitter falls through, in which case nothing will change with Twitter, he will still be hailed as the hero of free speech without ever actually doing anything.
You could say that just his initial actions and offer to outright buy Twitter prove me wrong, but does it really?
Ask youself… if he fails in this bid to buy Twitter, he will get all the glory and have accomplished nothing.
Again, you say, well this brings the problems of censorship on Twitter (and other platforms) to light.
Well, that has been obvious from day one.
If the GOP was not part of the GCU, they would have already done something about it. Just like they would have already done something about the election fraud and the fact that Xiden/Obiden didn’t win the election.
But that ain’t going to happen because the GCU is in control of every part of government in the USA with the help of the unelected deep state.
GCU=Globalist Communist Uniparty
I think Elon has accomplished quite a bit by this Twitter stock “buy.” I never dreamed that the US Govt. was funding Twitter and the Intel community using it to ban free speech and to promote their Leftist/Global ideology. Sundance has explained it very clearly—as always. What is going to happen now? That’s the question.
I suspected that the Govt was behind Facebook..never thought of twitter that way.
People like Elon & Trump aren’t use to losing, losing only makes them more determined to win, that is why they are in the position they are in, ey
Then, let’s just surrender & join the GREAT ONE-WORLD-GOVERNMENT !!! We only have them out-numbered a million to one.
I have not yet begun to fight.
John Paul Jones
They won’t sell it. It’s their echo chamber. Invaluable to them. It’d be nice if I am wrong though….
They can’t sell it. Their world would collapse.
The collapse is already under way.
Musk will either own it or destroy it.
He has thrown down the gauntlet!
I prefer it be destroyed.
I agree. They won’t sell because Twitter is one of their most important election fraud devices and it was pivotal in them succeeding at the 2020 steal and then being able to get away with it. It is essential for Twitter to do this again in 2022 or the Corrupticons & Demonrats won’t be able to remain in power. Biden will be a Lame Duck, & hopefully soon Impeached and removed. And many of them will hopefully be prosecuted and go to jail. It will be entertaining to see Twitter scrambling for the funds from all their dark sources to try to fight Musk and then fight off all the lawsuits from their share holders if they don’t sell. Plus all the Liberals & Twitter employee/bots getting triggered and having melt downs. Today that alone made it worth it to not have cancelled my account on Twitter. LOL. What a great day it was.
The beauty of all of this is that even if Musk can’t buy the platform there will be even more layers of the DC rot exposed to the light of day. With the DOJ now retaliating against Musk and trying to prosecute him for some bogus unrelated charges, (to “teach him a lesson”no doubt), EVERYONE in the world should be able to see what a filthy group of Dirty Cops and Crooks they all are. If Americans were smart they would DEMAND that Congress defund this useless group of criminals leeching off the taxpayers while they actively try to destroy our Constitutional Republic, posing as “Judiciary.” It clearly shows that getting rid of Trump wasn’t the answer for them. They will give ANYONE the Trump treatment who tries to break up this group of Racketeers or decrease their power. It will be interesting to see what our Heavenly Father has in store for them also. Keep praying for His Judgement. The bird crapping on Biden this week in the middle of his ranting power-grab speech was HILARIOUS. Now, THAT was God’s sense of humor! LOL.
Well if He can make the stones cry out in praise of Him then He can cause a bird to let go or a piece of corn to fly up and land on Biden. Either way He deserves praise.
And after Musk exposes this filthy group of dirty cops and crooks, what then? The mafia was exposed long ago and are still operating in the open. Nothing will happen, and the reason is twofold: 1) Uninformed and ill-informed morons elect them; and 2) They have all perfected the art of remaining in power, whether it is scum like McConnell, Fauci or Biden and thousands just like them. All three of those scum are criminals of the first order and are comfortably ensconced in their positions of power and self-serving corruption. I’ll even take bets that Hunter Biden walks.
They have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to sell it.
If every right-winger who complained about Twitter, FB, YouTube, et al would just close their accounts this whole drama would have been over years ago. I had a FB account for one month back in 2005 when I realized what a waster of time and energy it is. Never considered joining Twitter. Used YouTube until they began censoring people on the right–then I used them as little as possible (product assembly instructions, etc.).
Q: Why TF can’t the right punish these platforms by refusing to play the game? A: Because the right is stupid, lazy, and would rather whine than go to war.
It’s not too late, but then again… it is. Because even after 15 months of Biden most people on the right still refuse to fight fire with fire.
Musk obviously has serious complaints about Twitter yet continues to use it. I wouldn’t characterize him as lazy or whiney.
Talk about one giant rat maze! This is beyond belief.
Your hypothesis that Twitter is subsidized by the US Government sent me to its recent 10K, available at sec.Edgar.gov, in which they’re obligated to disclose all material facts about operations that a reasonable investor would want to know. There’s nothing there about such a subsidy, but you’re right they collect $5B in revenue, mostly from selling ads, with a little bit from licensing. Also interesting is that they’re losing money.
Their data is of great value to them in selling ads, but Google, FB and some of the others generate far more in ad revenue. So, to make your hypothesis work (assuming their board and audit committee and compliance officer don’t let them just lie to the SEC) some of their “licensing arrangements” would have to be with some big server farm operator – Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud, or the NSA itself – where the revenue they show doesn’t count the value they get from being able to use someone else’s servers. Each of those would gain access to Twitter’s data, to aggregate with everything else, to profile each of us, both to sell ads, and to surveil us for totalitarian control purposes.
So it’s a very interesting hypothesis. If true, the legal consequences would be huge.
It would never be made public under any circumstances.
What are ‘legal consequences’? There are no laws enforced that I can see.
It’s also illegal for FBI Agents to frame the President of the United States for a crime that never happened!
Or to fake kidnapping Whitless
Special Agent Richard Trask is not an exception or an anomaly.
He represents an outsized portion of the FBIs Rank and vile.
The prior, and ongoing enhanced screening that is a standard requirement for all FBI employees, make it all but impossible for the Bureau Leadership to have been oblivious. This bag of excrement is emblematic of the “New” FBI.
Item 3. If true, direct evidence of federal government paying a 3rd party to eliminate free speech.
Ordinary Americans have witnessed more overt Federal lawlessness in the last five years, than in the last thirty.
Musk makes a play for Twitter, and lo and behold, the DOJ and the SEC has the sudden urge to put Tesla under the microscope…
why are so few of us surprised?
Because we have seen much worse happen with monotonous regularity.
Our unelected Federal bureaucracy are completely beholden to extra Governmental powers. Senior leaders have weeded out all points of resistance. If any genuine whistle blowers dare to make their presence known they end up destroyed, reputationally vaporised, or dead..
Snowden did the smart thing.
Oversight?
Inspector Generals are there facilitate the outrage and to lend an appearance of propriety to any uncomfortable investigations.
Legislative or Judicial oversight? Pfffttt!!!
Intel Agencies guard this perverse system with extreme prejudice.
Bribery?
Reputation destruction?
Financial ruin?
Incarceration?
Recording sexual misconduct?
Extortion?
Violence?
Murder?
These detestable self serving scumbags keep each other in check, lest they grow a conscience, and entertain ideas of “doing the right thing”.
Believe it.
Wouldn’t RICO apply here? As well as election interference on a massive scale.
Zerohedge tweeted:
>>Dear @Alwaleed_Talal this may come as a shock to you, but you sold all your Twitter shares in 2019, not long after were were put under Ritz Carlton hotel arrest. cc: @elonmusk
WHAT IF, THERE IS MORE THAN ONE SYSTEM?
In my opinion, there is only one technological system and entity that could possibly underwrite the cost of Twitter to operate. That entity is the United States Government, and here’s why.
I believe CTH is correct, and I offer the following in support. Google and DARPA are both government controlled contractors. These people seem to be setting on a system of Quantum computers. If this is so then would they even notice the amount of storage and computational power needed to run Twitter.
I believe, our government is in the business of predicting outcomes. What would happen if war started in the Ukraine, for example.
November 30, 2021
Stanford’s physicists help create time crystals with quantum computers
A team of researchers including ones from Stanford and Google have created and observed a new phase of matter, popularly known as a time crystal.
This work was led by Stanford University, Google Quantum AI, the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems and Oxford University. The full author list is available in the Nature paper.
This research was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a Google Research Award, the Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/11/30/time-crystal-quantum-computer/
Nothing exits -yet- in the way of quantum computers being used operationally.
Go (short for Govt) + Ogle = Google. It’s right there in our faces. The government is ogling us.
“Ghoulgle”.
Gizoogle.com
lol
One more reason to cancel my twitter account. I can easily live without it.
I’ve never had one.
Twitter is full of advertisements. Commenting businesses, such as, Disqus, make there share of money through advertising. Not sure that i’m on board with Government funded computer systems, but the Government definitely has some control over Twitter.
The govt. didn’t want to expose their hand in controlling Twitter and in the stolen 2020 election. Even the Supreme Court knows what’s going on. They didn’t want to touch the fraud either. Once you see it you cannot UNSEE it. One hand washes the other.
Musk will be hit with more lawsuits and accused of being an accomplice of Russia or a CCP spy. These govt. crooks never tire of their will to power and their destructive control freak pursuits . Sundance has caught them!!!
No kidding. It’s all about which side of the fence you sit on, and how much power you have currently. Musk has plenty of power, but he’s on the wrong side of the fence and is therefore the next target of the Establishment. e.g. Trump had a lot of power but was on the wrong side of the fence, too. Look what happened to him.
Musk actually wants to kick the troll twits off Twitter.
I was going to make a post to the effect that updates such as “Like” do not occur in real-time, and that the mere claim that such a practice is cost-prohibitive is proof on its face that a company would say there must be a better way (ie do “lazy” updates instead of real-time updates), but Deplorable Dave already said “no not real-time” so I won’t.
However, “the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy” can be true independently of the “real-time” premise, and I am inclined to the view that the platforms are indeed subsidised by government backing.
Sundance’s notion that Musk is about to expose it is interesting and I look forward to seeing what happens.
The Memes They Shall Be Epic!
YEP. I called this. I think Elon wants to expose the fact that US government is propping most of these sites up…then the whole “Well they’re private businesses so they can ban whoever they want.” argument evaporates and people can start suing the **** out of the US government for 1st and 4th Amendment violations.
Musk’s recent back-and-forths with Pelosi and him leaving Commiefornia all indicates that he’s fed up with the government’s asinine behavior as much as we are.
That’s my thought too. They are actively violating people’s free speech rights. Boy wouldn’t that tick the lefties off if they lost that argument?
Twitter doesn’t have simultaneous users. It has compartmentalized users and user nodes. A huge part of the scheme is determining what *not* to serve to users.
That would not fundamentally change the problem of financial viability even if that divided the cost in half or more.
It does fundamentally change it. Because when Twitter has the ability and is willing to manipulate users for a price, the value of it’s services increase exponentially with the size of it’s user base.
WOW — subsidized by the US government. Let the games begin!!
As always Sundance thank you for everything you do. I love the way you think!
Oh, look, the bluebird has strings too, just like Pinocchio…
Another brilliant analysis by the Sundance crew.
I hope Musk is lawyered up and has extra security laid on.
The DOJ is sharpening their knives to get him, no matter what it takes.
Musk is taking a gigantic personal risk by doing this and I applaud him for it and hope he succeeds.
We could all chip in to assist him with his legal fees. I’ll wager most people in the world who aren’t ChiCom wannabees would contribute to the cause.
Support CTH. That’s the best way to contribute to Free Speech!
now you being to understand why the SEC is seeking actions toward elon.
Next it will be DOJ…and then IRS…then congress…
wait for it.
the dude has literally “HACKED” the 4, 5, and 6th estate….they KNOW it. HE KNOWS IT.
HE will TAKE this company aware from the USG controllers by reforming it into a private company. He has stated this recently…ON TWITTER. This means there are no USG interests in shareholders that have an controlling power….The censoring power…the surveillance power…the manipulation power…the fact “check” power.
the entire enchilada is that this company by the manner in corruptors (special interests/IC/USG/NWO’) gain control over the free speech arena.
THAT WOULD END with elon taking private. There would still be investors, and likely, very likely the existing shareholders if that convert to the new private investment ….And there wouldn’t be anything blocking that.
But what they would NOT HAVE is board access and corruption into the reformed twitter with a more open experience FOR EVERYONE.
And that scares these corruptors. They have managed for a very long time to use twitter as a weapon for pure political AND SECRET USG policies.
That ends when he takes the entire company in a deal of the century…and goes private with it.
Now the bad news, is that few “everyday” people will be able to buy stakes in this private investment. It will be “members only”..big whales, large fund, large hedge funds, some mutual funds, and straigh private ownership contracts for specific projects …(twitter has many projects…one of them happens to be a algorithm “AI” system . etc.
The main advantage of private companies is that management doesn’t have to answer to stockholders and isn’t required to file disclosure statements with the SEC.1 However, a private company can’t dip into the public capital markets and must, therefore, turn to private funding. It has been said often that private companies seek to minimize the tax bite, while public companies seek to increase profits for shareholders.
Bottom line is this also: Elon was very quick in a recent interview that this play to buy all of twitter and move it to a private environment is NOT ABOUT ECONOMIC.
It is about building OUT and reformed platform to meet the best open transparent global user experience.
Imagine the amount of growth that happens very rapidly when people realize it really is a very good technology, NOW THAT YOU ARE OPEN TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS AND EVEN GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES…and not have to be concerned that YOUR VOICE will be censored, blocked, or banned.
I am not a twitter person…never have, never will. But I understand the technology and the impact this service is to many many people. And the impact of arresting speech and presenting a very one sided walled garden.
We just have to see. If the shareholders see a way to make money with this one time transaction..I think they’ll take it. It would likely be the largest biggest payday in us history relating to a takeover.
One the other hand they lose power and likely any serious position in the new private company.
so, this is where this battle is going.
I think the USG definitely has a huge influence…There is just too much coincidence that twitter policies follow the radical left democrat/commie/ccp agenda and idealogy. And of course the surveillance.
The USG will relentlessly pursue something to make elon go away.
they will launch the mother of all penalties at him
They will take him down, no matter what.
He just took a brief dip in the deep end.
there be monster.
just a preview:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/tesla-must-pay-ex-worker-15-million-for-disturbing-racist-abuse-judge-rules/
don’t pay attention to the small “settlement”.
pay attention to how the courts will find any reason to go after Elon and his other companies.
He is powerful and is enigmatic and his own man. And apparently not compromised by USG….nieve, but not compromised.
I don’t know how you do it Sundance, but I think you are right on the money about Twitter and the Government. Now that you have said it, it seems an obvious truth. Of course the Intel agencies would love to use a platform like Twitter to propagandize and shadow ban and spread their agenda. Perfect.
Just imagine how many coded messages have been sent over Twitter, much like when they, probably still are, using gaming chat rooms to communicate.
I remember Jack saying he started Twitter to get people to communicate using less words. For someone like me it was most frustrating to stay w/in the character minimum. I was banned long ago because I loved my president.
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Do you not want Him too?
You cannot do without Him,
And He wants – even you.
What Will You Do Without Him?
If true then would that mean all the banning was unconstitutional? If the gooberment is backing the company then they can’t deny someone’s right to speak. Kind of like our college campuses are supposed to allow for areas of free speech because they take federal dollars. So the argument that it’s a private company and that free speech only applies when the gooberment tries to restrict it is moot. The gooberment is the one running the whole thing by funding it. Just a thought.
Years back, the USG (via DoD) was going to field a thing called Total Information Awareness (TIA). I read the final draft of the planning document for this “tell us all about yourselves & gather all your data unto me” system; it was a real concept to be fielded. Reaction to the notion, even within the DoD elements charged with fielding it, were full of very loud pushback. (Not all gov’t workers are drones.) So the Big G said, “Oops, my bad. Guess we won’t do that” and pulled it back. Then…
Along comes Facebook.
Big G has been at this awhile now.
Possibly the most important article SD has ever written.
See Lifelog
Darpa project cancelled on February 4, 2004 due to privacy concerns.
See Facebook
Founded February 4, 2004
The exact same thing can be said about Google… ok, Alphabet. A so called publicly traded tech company that is actually controlled by the Deep State… look at how close Eric Schmidt was with Obama… if all that Obama wanted from Schmidt was campaign money and strategy , why would he personally meet with him multiple times in Washington DC?
In addition, the arguments made about infrastructure required to maintain Twitter apply equally well to a site like Facebook… Also its already quite well known how deeply connected major companies like Amazon are with the Pentagon.
I am not sure if this is even a big secret…The US tech industry is not what it seems on surface…
btw, I have always thought that Musk himself had ties with the Deep Statists. No major industry/company in the US can function completely independent of the influence/control of the US DS..
I am not sure how sincere Elon Musk is about protecting free speech…. but if he is, he needs to better watch out as he will have to confront the Deep State..
It’s hilarious to read all the leftists whining about a billionaire buying their sacred twitter . . . did they not notice Bezos buying Washington Post, or Zuckerberg becoming a billionaire owning facebook etc?
Quite a brilliant and crucial series of insights here.
Thus one difficulty with nationalizing Twitter as, say, a public utility, is that it is already nationalized, albeit covertly.
Anything financed by the 4th branch of govt is, by extension, an asset of the People’s.
US Gov. is twitter (message control), who is Jack D.?
And if…
US Gov. is Amazon (purchasing control), who is Jeff B.?
W.E.F. graduating class of 2006?
Remember when they used to archive ALL Tweets at the Library of Congress? But then in 2017, they decided to stop.
Weird…
Wait till we find out who is paying / subsidizing all the 5g infastructure collecting everything about all of us, our cars, our refrigerators, our cats….at each of the thousands (hundreds of?) towers spread out across the fruited plane.
It aint verizon paying.
A million thanks to Sundance and the team for tearing the cloak of secrecy and letting in the sunlight that the ghouls detest so much.
Same thing with Facebook. Facebook =DARPA Lifelog. The pentagon shut down their Lifelog program the same day as Facebook started. No joke!
Can’t stand Charlie GasbagRINO. He’s a virulent Trump hater since 2015. He is jealous and hateful towards anyone that’s liked by the people and wealthier than himself.
Sundance, you forgot the ad revenue that drives the business. Ads that market to the users most suited to their pitch. The users are the marketing attraction for the ad revenue. More users, more eyeballs, more views.
The Feds are certainly involved, but saying there is no business model is not true IMO. Every social media platform depends on ad revenue as their business model.
I’ve noticed that not only am I shadowbanned on Twitter but my “likes” don’t show up if I go to the author’s twitter timeline.
Is this one of the ways Twitter saves processing cost? It doesn’t broadcast posts from millions who don’t share the group think and display “like” or “retweet” only on the user’s timeline and not simultaneously to all users?
If I’m not mistaken much of Musk’s wealth is due to govt. subsidies. Is he biting the hand that feeds him?
It’s right in front of us: Trusted News Initiative
Trusted News Initiative – KeyWiki
who pays the piper, calls the tune
Musk is going to shine light onto this subject
Burn it down
I find it interesting thatthe federal mask mandate has suddenly popped up again at the same time Musk made his offer
So, when they ban and shadow ban people they WIN BIGLY. It costs them less $$$ to “carry” their comments back and forth. Especially power users like President TRUMP who had 100 MILLION Followers. They save money by not being free speech.
FLASHBACK 2018: Twitter Employees on how to “Shadowban” users and how Anti-Trump bias leads to bans
By ProjectVeritas
Published April 15, 2022
https://rumble.com/v11410a-flashback-2018-twitter-employees-on-how-to-shadowban-users-and-how-anti-tru.html
Shadow banning reminds me a whole lot of the program within a program that Uber developed to do an end run around regulators who were harassing their drivers, called Greyball. For more information see the Showtime series ‘Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber‘.
And then there is the $$$ they are making by selling your data and data profile to others. Others who are likely using that information to blackmail you.
FLASHBACK 2018: Twitter Software Engineer Reveals How Tech Giant Stores & Sells Your Private DataBy ProjectVeritas
Published April 14, 2022
https://rumble.com/v110q5h-flashback-2018-twitter-software-engineer-reveals-how-tech-giant-stores-and-.html
FLASHBACK 2018: Twitter Software Engineer Reveals How Tech Giant Stores & Sells Your Private Data
Elon Musk – have you seen this?
I think you’ll find your answer to government funding and motive in a little known Obama executive order. Federal Register :: Using Behavioral Science Insights To Better Serve the American People
Hmmm…. I’m not sure that I agree with the analysis here. To a few points: