Jack’s magic coffee shop posted their latest financial results today.
As suspected, the social media company Twitter said revenue for the first quarter totaled $1.2 billion (+16%). However, costs and expenses totaled $1.33 billion (+35%), resulting in an operating loss of $128 million. (link)
Another unsustainable result for a company that doesn’t make a profit yet continues to operate. I digress…
REPOST WARNING – The metaphorical Jack had a great idea, open a coffee shop where the beverages were free and use internal advertising as the income subsidy to operate the business. Crowds came for the free coffee, comfy couches, fellowship, conversation and enjoyment.
It didn’t matter where Jack got the coffee, how he paid for it, or didn’t, or what product advertising the customers would be exposed to while there. Few people thought about such things. Curiously, it didn’t matter what size the crowd was; in the backroom of Jack’s Coffee Shop they were able to generate massive amounts of never-ending free coffee at extreme scales.
Over time, using the justification of parking lot capacity and township regulations, not everyone would be able to park and enter. Guards were placed at the entrance to pre-screen customers. A debate began.
Alternative coffee shops opened around town. It was entirely possible to duplicate Jacks Coffee Shop, yet no one could duplicate the business model for the free coffee. Indeed, there was something very unique about Jack’s Coffee Shop. Thus, some underlying suspicions were raised:
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. A public-private partnership.
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.
FREE COFFEE:
♦ June 2013: […] “Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data.” … “A test scenario described by GAO in its June 2013 bid protest opinion suggests the CIA sought to compare how the solutions presented by IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) could crunch massive data sets, commonly referred to as big data.” … “Solutions had to provide a “hosting environment for applications which process vast amounts of information in parallel on large clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware” using a platform called MapReduce. Through MapReduce, clusters were provisioned for computation and segmentation. Test runs assumed clusters were large enough to process 100 terabytes of raw input data. AWS’ solution received superior marks from CIA procurement officials”… (MORE)
♦ November 2013: […] “Twitter closed its first day of trading on Nov. 7, 2013, at $44.90 a share. In the years since then, it briefly traded above $70, but more recently, it has struggled.”
Jack’s free coffee shop has been for sale, but there’s no viable business model in the private sector. No one has wanted to purchase Twitter – it is simply unsustainable; the data processing costs exceed the capacity of the platform to generate revenue – until now….
And suddenly, the people who work in the backroom of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop don’t want Jack to sell.
Twitter is not making a decision to decline the generous offer by Elon Musk because of stewardship or fiduciary responsibility to shareholders. The financials of Twitter as a non-viable business model highlight the issue of money being irrelevant. Twitter does not and cannot make money. Growing Twitter only means growing an expense. Growing Twitter does not grow revenue enough to offset the increase in expense.
There is only one way for Twitter to exist as a viable entity, people are now starting to realize this.
What matters to the people behind Twitter, the people who are subsidizing the ability of Twitter to exist, is control over the global conversation.
Control of the conversation is priceless to the people who provide the backbone for Twitter.
Once people realize who is subsidizing Twitter, everything changes.
That’s the fight. (more)
♦ 2021, Public-Private Partnership – The modern Fourth Branch of Government is only possible because of a Public-Private partnership with the intelligence apparatus. You do not have to take my word for it, the partnership is so brazen they have made public admissions.
The biggest names in Big Tech announced in June their partnership with the Five Eyes intelligence network, ultimately controlled by the NSA, to: (1) monitor all activity in their platforms; (2) identify extremist content; (3) look for expressions of Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE); and then, (4) put the content details into a database where the Five Eyes intelligence agencies (U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) can access it.
Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are all partnering with the intelligence apparatus. It might be difficult to fathom how openly they admit this, but they do. Look at this sentence in the press release (emphasis mine):
[…] “The Group will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.”
Think about that sentence structure very carefully. They are “adding to” the preexisting list…. admitting the group (aka Big Tech) already have access to the the intelligence-sharing database… and also admitting there is a preexisting list created by the Five Eyes consortium.
Obviously, who and what is defined as “extremist content” will be determined by the Big Tech insiders themselves. This provides a gateway, another plausible deniability aspect, to cover the Intelligence Branch from any oversight.
When the Intelligence Branch within government wants to conduct surveillance and monitor American citizens, they run up against problems due to the Constitution of the United States. They get around those legal limitations by sub-contracting the intelligence gathering, the actual data-mining, and allowing outside parties (contractors) to have access to the central database.
The government cannot conduct electronic searches (4th amendment issue) without a warrant; however, private individuals can search and report back as long as they have access. What is being admitted is exactly that preexisting partnership. The difference is that Big Tech will flag the content from within their platforms, and now a secondary database filled with the extracted information will be provided openly for the Intelligence Branch to exploit.
The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This new admission puts a new massive filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 is an alarming admission of a prior relationship along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives. In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. The legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama network took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created, and turned those weapons into tools for his radical and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective the fundamental change was successful.
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[…] “The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago.” … “It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.” (READ MORE)
One job…. “take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
Knowing they put this much effort into it, does everything going on now to regulate the internet, maintain the public-private partnership, define information and use the weapons of the administrative state to protect the assembly, start to make more sense?…
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IF the intent of the intelligence community is indeed to monitor extremism, banning “extremists” from the platform would be counterproductive, would it not?
We WANT the extremists using our platform so we can eavesdrop.
Any “extremists” banned must not be the extremists they’re looking for. More likely just a convenient side benefit of being able to squelch domestic dissent and opposition.
You’re using too much common sense…
Boatloads of common sense….
Wasn’t the Arab Spring fermented on Facebook?
They’re just using it for GROUPTHINK. Psychological manipulation and hypnotizing of the masses.
The problem as I see it is that the true “extremists” are the very ones alleging non-extremists are the threat.
This whole thing is bass aackward.
Bingo!
Kamala Harris could never understand what you just said. Sad.
But she would laugh and nod her head anyway thinking it was the polite thing to do.
“We are doing the things that need doing, and yes, we have been doing these things, and we will continue to do these things because it is what we do.”
I suspect they monitor us little guys. When one begins to be an influencer on social media is when one becomes banned when that influence is not towards the approved narrative. The argument makes some sense regarding say Muslim extremism with its attendant high death count as opposed to say a libertarian group. I think it is more like they always monitor everything but, reserve banning for when the opposition is actually making headway or too much light is being focused where they wish it to remain dark. True extremism is not banned because they are extremists themselves. Trying to keep some appearance of dissent being allowed while outlawing dissent that might make a difference. It may appear ridiculous for them to keep lying and pretending to be unbiased but, it is all they have, and they will never ever give up the con.
How has SD lasted all these years on Twitter?
Ouch! I wonder if Elon knew before his bid?
Russia appears to have won
“Some of Europe’s largest energy companies are preparing to use a new payment system for Russian gas demanded by the Kremlin, which critics say will undercut EU sanctions, threaten the bloc’s unity and deliver billions in cash to Russia’s economy.”
https://www.ft.com/content/5c4ecf3f-67c9-4ae6-b1a2-d70f2ef7ac05
He held all the cards the entire time.
And President Donald J. Trump warned them about this, explicitly, years in advance.
But, you know, he hurt their widdle feewings when he told them an undeniable truth.
President Reagan warned them back in 1981.
If Musk never bought Twitter, we would have Twitter actively DEMANDING The Resident in Chief start World War 3 with Solider who are either Transgender or who may not know what was their gender for that day.
I agree President Trump gave him a heads up. But I personally believe the money Musk spent is literally Monopoly money for him. If Twitter was forced to close and he loses his investment I don’t think he’d blink an eye. And to be honest I think he knew Twitter was a house of cards, but wanted the challenge of rebuilding it. Think of it as working on a Classic car that is literally a husk in the junkyard and turning it into a road worthy beauty.
As for Musk, I’m not saying he is an Avatar for MAGA, but he pulled the curtain off one of the Champions of the Progressive Mindset. This hurts them emotionally… thus Bidet’s “Ministry of Truth.” So I hope his widdle feewings get hurt more by Leftists so he can either set them straight… or close them down!
I’m not among the fabulously wealthy elite, but one must think that, in order to garner so much wealth, one cannot make whimsical, unfounded, or unresearched investments and expect to maintain said wealth.
There’s an ulterior motive in this purchase, I’m sure. It’s jut not been fully revealed as yet.
No doubt Musk will lose a bundle on this purchase initially, but something related to this purchase will help him recoup most, if not all, and possibly make a profit.
If Musk speaks truthfully:
Buying Twitter ‘is not a way to make money,’ says Musk in TED interview
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/14/23025343/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-ted-talk-quote-stock-buyout
What if Twitter becomes part of “starlink” and it doesn’t rely on traditional methods of accessing the internet. In fact what if Twitter went solely on some new type of starlink system, similar to the internet, but not constrained by certain internet protocols?
Perfect!!! If Twitter goes to Starlink, the DS will totally have no control. Great idea!!!!
Some new type of internet protocol, like this one:
https://ipfs.io/
He’s mentioned connecting Twitter to Dogecoin for payment. Payment processors do make money. Could be thinking along those lines . .
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/25/dogecoin-jumps-more-than-20percent-after-twitter-agrees-to-elon-musks-buyout-deal.html
Lawsuits for fraudulent representation of the business.
Power and money are somewhat fungible, so investing money to gain influence to make more money…
kinda makes sense.
Maybe he needed to purchase a company that loses money, to offset profits made on his other companies?
Good for Russia. This Biden regime and the EU are totally unintelligent. Under Trump, they all got along, despite all their differences. Now, the wanna-be NWO have no clue how to conduct World Business. Shameful.
I suspect that Elon sees the user base as an affluent group that is positioned to withstand economic hardship. If he maintains the viability of the platform and figures out a way to monetize it, he will be okay.
Said more simply: He did not buy the company based on past performance. He bought it for future value he thinks he can create.
I was wondering about this aspect also. Musk may be using Twitter as a launch point for more profitable services to compete against Facebook/Google etc. Also, he now has a mass communications platform from which he can not be banned as the left goes to war against him.
Politics is now an integral aspect for a big business. Musk may be the only big business guy who has decided to acquire the means to wage war rather than just become a lackey to whatever the woke mobs demand.
It is interesting that Musk is doing more as a “non conservative” against the left than the GOP has done in 30 years as the official opposition to the left.
Thanks for making those extremely important comments!
Everybody has their personal and individual priorities, and I’m sure Musk has his, but of one thing I’m sure: HE REALLY DOES BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH, AND WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT WITHIN HIS POWER TO ACHIEVE IT.
Is he naive in believing he will be granted such rights under our gutted-out constitution in these United Marxist States of America? May be!
Will he go softly into the night, if he’s not permitted to have his free speech forum free from DOJ, WEF harassment and mandates?
That, I can almost guarantee, he will not!
Rather than go softly into that night, I could more easily see him as a reluctant (but willing) political prisoner in one of Merrick Garland’s squalid detention cages in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s DC hell hole, also known as the BLM Autonomous Zone.
In a world where a lie has become truth, and Truth is being portrayed as a lie… it is STAGGERING that anyone would literally blow hundreds of millions of dollars to control a narrative. Their setting that money on fire as quickly as the faux government can print it. Just staggering. How many small countries could that kind of monetary effort sustain?
Hmmm, what happened in 2008? And 2012? And still?
Just note that he did not move and neither did “the right.” It’s the left that continues to move further and further left. We all felt it happening.
Which, in absolute value, means Musk remains a Liberal at heart!
“Liberal” and “Democrat” become dirty words to ex Libs and ex Dems.
What is a Liberal? Does it still mean a “classical Liberal” or is there a new definition?
Elon notes it in his little illustration. The classical liberal is not even in the same ballpark as the “progressive”. The progressive is really just a gussied up word for communist/socialist and always has been. I would argue the globalists have used the useful idiots of the progressive left (the true believers in authoritarianism to implement their ideology) to make huge strides towards their one world government. Progressive ideology pollutes and corrupts and destroys everything it touches.
Now it just means insane.
Glad you saw that too. So maybe he hasn’t changed at all.
The playing field sure has.
Obama, globalists, WEF for a start.
Brilliant.
Wow! Nice to see Musk gets it.
This happened to a LOT of other people th/ EM, and continues to this day- thankfully.
Love it! Go Elon!
Elon Muck provides an illustration of the Overton Window
Reminds me of Senator Zell Miller.
And now with Musk in charge, what happens? Do the freebies end, or just some of the censorship and banning? Can Musk make money by turning it into an open forum and paying his own way? That is the 64 billion dollar question….
First thing is to weed out all the unproductive wokies. Specifically all those with no show jobs. Remember, he did mention turning Twit Central HQ into a homeless shelter and putting employees to work as staff for said shelter.
Someone was speaking yesterday of the bizarre coincidence of the Elon Musk link to the current Johnny Depp trial.
Well that link just got more significant:
Johnny Depp-Amber Heard Trial: ACLU Believes Elon Musk Was Behind $500,000 Donation Toward Actress’s Pledge
The general counsel of the ACLU testified that the foundation believed that billionaire Elon Musk was behind a $500,000 payment to help the actress fulfill a $3.5 million donation pledge to the organization.
Heard had said that she would donate $7 million from her divorce settlement with Depp to charity, split between the ACLU and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
But in Depp’s $50 million defamation claim against Heard, his attorneys have been trying to show that Heard has not followed through on the pledge to the ACLU.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial-180749660.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
$1.33 billion dollar quarter budget budget ?
What the Hell kind of coffee are the making ?
So now we know what the purpose of those huge white, windowless buildings the NSA put up…
Question though.. .is the Intelligence Branch monolithic or does it have poles of influence. I’d think the DoD (MIC) has different interests from the DoE ( CIA, FBI, DoJ ). Otherwise Musk (*) would not have been able to usurp Twitter from the DoE.
Also, in this context ( DoE vs MIC ), the behavior of Adm Rogers makes a lot of sense. The MIC had little to gain with the Progressives. You can see this also in present day’s Ukraine (ignore for a minute Austin and Gen Millie Vanilly) where the Pentagon’s narrative is far different from the WH and the DoS.
(*) Who I think is aligned with the MIC (DoD, NASA, High Tech aerospace).
All you have to do is search “the AT&T building” you will find many windowless buildings around this country
True, indeed, once upon a time I was hired as a janitor there.
BUT, here we’re talking about massive buildings with massive power and wiring going into them.
Remember?
https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff-nsadatacenter/
Sounds to me like shutting Down the internet Permanently is a Great idea. Tech = Satan. Things that should help and sustain life are being used to destroy it instead. None of this should come as a surprise to anyone that believes what the Bible says.
We were saying it in the dot com era, even as the money poured in, the Internet is the portal to hell.
I stand by those words.
It’s off to Amishland for you.
The world would be so much better off if it was completely destroyed
TWITTER = Fascism/Corporatism Personified.
An interesting point.
A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
How many of you, like me, terminated your FB account? If you did then you may recall that the parting note said your data would be deleted (from your page but not where you posted to others) but would remain in the incremental and full volume backups where it was still subject to legal issues. Words like that.
If MS was in on the building of a terrorism database, it isn’t hard to imagine that the “legal” splitting of hairs means that ALL OF OUR data from full volume and incremental was used to populate said database.
Likely every bit as big or bigger than those managed by IBM on behalf of big brother. Also helps explain the massive Democrat House investments in MS last year
ted buys aol all over again… in reverse… sorta.
…And the irony here is since gov’t practically owns all of the news/social media…Who’s left to report on gov’t extremisim?…Hence, DHS’s “Truth Bureau”.
Either we fight back on this or learn to bleat. We got this way because too many Americans think Freedom and Liberty are a given.
For most of us, freedom and liberty WAS a given. And those (most of us) also respected our flag, our military; God, family, and Country. The Uniparty is destroying our fundamental beliefs.
With that record and those losses, it sounds like a government run operation to me.
don’t drink the coke.
Makes sense
I don’t tweet but hope someone might post this question to Elon on his Twitter account
Elon, simple question………
IF the US government has been subsidizing Twitter over the last 4-5 years and/or has access to all the data and you uncover this, will you expose this if true to the American people? Yes or No?
If the Twitter business model is a failure, I wonder how Musk plans to make it successful without Twitter’s government partner subsidizing it and telling him what to do.
doesn’t make sense to me for $46 BILLION dollars.
Something is very rotten in Denmark as Hamlet said.
If the government stops subsidizing Twitter, it also must shut down Facebook and others.
There is method to his madness.
We shall see. He is now realizing the heavy hand of big Gov NWO , especially now that the Biden Regime has decided they need a “Disinformation Governance Board.” I pray he has the fortitude and ambition to knock it all down.
All these came out of MIT and Darpa. The paper cutouts called Dorky Suckerberge Bezin Schmidtchit and the rest just front slugs for government. They never created anything, they where the ones easiest to brainwash.
dorky left of fist, bezin to the starboard.
And CNN, with no audience, still pays their on-air talking heads $millions? Well, somebody is paying them..
CNN+ may have been a post-hoc attempt to validate a bogus business model.
Enron claimed huge non-existent profits for many years. The accountants played along. And if the IRS and the regulators don’t intervene, it can go on almost forever.
How long did Bernie Madoff pass off money laundering as genius investing? Bernie filled out all the right forms – why wouldn’t a sociopath be facile about that fraud, too?
In light of the recent financials, Elon Musk should retract his offer. Twitter will plummet. Trumper (aka Truth Social) will boom in time for the runup to the elections.
Imagine if that had been the plan all along.
Twitter has 7000 employees. Cut some fat to help meet the short fall. 😂
Fire some of the skinny ones, too.
Shut down the HQ in Frisco and turn it into the Oakland Homeless Depot.
Some of us have known this since the 1990’s…
The government today simply uses subcontractors to buy, run analytics and produce products to steer and control narrative.
I don’t say that as if it’s some conspiracy… It’s all open records.
People are just stupid and don’t understand it.
But… Stay distracted by the piddling social political issues, never mind the constitutional ones. Also, keep believing that it’s just one party and the other will save you.
That picture represents the three bullfrogs.
bring back the wing.
A rancher NW of Austin has offered Musk 100 acres free to bring the Twitter headquarters to Texas.
Great idea, but only if he leaves all the laid-off, green-haired, former-employees back in California.
There is a small continuation bet problem for them….
The “pandemic , rule by bureaucrat, unlimited excuses for control” isn’t going to work next time. They are going to need something much more contagious and deadly.
The existing covid 0.5% death rate does not a pandemic make, you need 30% to get real permanent control of everything.
Standby.
No doubt, the NIH and its labs in China is working on it.
Yes! Twitter, a private company, using the federal government to subsidize it ( along with other social media sites)…. another private company in the long line of corporate welfare parasites squandering tax prayer monies…….but a means for the government to destroy freedom and punish those who oppose the illegal, unlawful, UnConstitutional activities of the government, and a tool to spy on citizens and steal elections.
Hopefully Musk will expose everything.
Makes perfect sense that the government would be behind Jack’s Magic coffee shop. After all, government agencies are often, at best, nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
Now let’s see the cash grants/ loans that allow Twitter to run like it’s financed by the taxpayer.
That’s some permanent sugar daddy.
Makes sense. Madison Ave was the original mass physc operation by the intell agencies.
1500 of the 7500 employees at twitter work in MinTrue; Twitter “truth and security”. Just layoff the entire group and “poof” twitter is profitable…
My question is, why are there such long delays in Twitter responding to appeals or other account problems?
Methinks they are getting rather hammered at undoing all their shenanigans before Daddy gets home.
skynet…
we still have time
So, Elon Musk claims he will make Twitter a free speech zone. He defined that as people being “able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”
However, “within the bounds of the law” means the U.S. government’s Intelligence Community, and probably that of other nations, will have total access to all the free speech; and… “Everything you say can and WILL be used AGAINST you in a court of law.”
That’s not a free speech zone. It’s an entrapment zone; so, just what is there to celebrate about this deal? That Musk guarantees our ability to speak freely right up until the moment our government charges us with being a domestic terrorist based on something we tweeted?
But y’all go right ahead and hop on the new Twitter bandwagon. I’ll wait for Truth Social…
Free speech “within the bounds of law” means within the historic, traditional, well established bounds of ‘common law’ …… but that’s in other English speaking legal heritage countries, not necessarily in the US.
You can’t libel or slander (there is a public interest test however), you can’t make threats of violence, you can’t utter fraudulently, you can’t plagiarise, you can’t infringe copyright, you can’t scream fire in crowded theatre and call any of it “free speech”.
“Within the bounds of law” has not had the traditional meaning you describe for a long time. In today’s world, the reality is that “the law” is whatever those in control say it is and can get some activist judge or corrupted court to agree with.
There are many who can personally testify to what I am saying, starting with Donald J. Trump and the J6 ‘insurrectionists.’
They also admitted they were overstating how many users they had…for the past 3 years. Funny that happened just after Musk’s offer was accepted.
It should be interesting to see if Musk revises his offer much lower based on that admission, or walks away. It might depend on what he finds over the next couple months.
…and whether the SEC wants to look into that fraud or go back to sleep.
…and whether any advertisers demand refunds for overpayment.
…and whether any lawsuits from shareholders result.
What other “mistakes” will be found?
I don’t consider any of these people involved in this sickening usurpation of the constitution as Americans and I don’t believe they do either. Illegal occupational regime.
You know Sundance, if your hunch is correct, then some cadre of intelligence and defense officials have even conspiring with others – big tech, contractors, political parties – to unlawfully search and seize our private data without warrant, to unlawfully suppress freedom of speech and press, block the right to petition the government for redress, illegally using government resources to do it.
For any who suffer damages, I believe the officials involved, and their private sector co-conspirators, could be held accountable via “Bivens” actions filed in federal court. People like George Soros who corrupt the officials to commit these violations, too.
So as evidence trickles out about the big tech deep state conspiracy, very skilled class action trial lawyers should be organizing cases to be filed in federal courts around the country where those injured live.
The same action might also work against Fauci and the Covid Conspiracy, especially those who may have illegally directed federal funds to develop a bio weapon.
Once again you are spot on with your analysis and forewarnings to be or get prepared. Thank you.
Did anyone think that, when all this internet chat started in the 1990s, it was merely a coincidence that the AOL servers were parked right next door to the CIA server farm in Vienna Virginia? Nothing has changed just because we call it Twitter and Facebook now.
Very well presented. Every quote was awesome and thanks for sharing the content. Keep sharing and keep motivating others.