CTH has not visited the various Twitter stories recently, quite frankly because we are ambivalent to them. It just seems illogical for Elon Musk to have purchased Twitter without any idea of what was happening inside Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop, the public-private partnership that structures the operations of the social media company known as Twitter.
That said, some interesting developments recently as media rail against the platform and organized ultra-leftist groups demand advertising boycotts. Apparently, Apple and Android are threatening to remove the Twitter App and Mr. Musk is doubling down on exposing the matrix of how the U.S. government was working with Twitter toward controlling speech that was against their interests.
This tweet about releasing internal “files” on “speech suppression” follow on the heels of Mr. Musk noting that government involvement in the blocking of speech is very troubling.
It’s not a secret that FBI and U.S. Dept of Homeland Security offices were in partnership with Twitter. Much has been written about how DHS collaborated with the platform on the definitions and removals of material adverse to their interests.
When Musk uses the word “files” he is probably referencing a set of guidelines from the U.S. government to Twitter for content enforcement.
We see a lot of shocked faces around this as if people are only just discovering the issue. The general ‘surprise‘ seems rather weird.
It is worth remembering when Twitter became a tool of the U.S. government. It was back during the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’, specifically the events in Egypt, when members from the Obama administration first solicited Jack Dorsey (Twitter) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) for help.
The U.S. State Dept goal was to use these social media platforms as a way for citizens in Egypt and Libya to organize when the government was trying to put down protests. President Obama wanted to assist the Muslim Brotherhood achieve the goal of removing Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Khaddaffi respectively.
Twitter and Facebook were instrumental in the organization of the protests which were then compromised by the more extreme political elements of political Islam from within the organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. The relationship between the government and social media grew from there.
While the middle east uprisings were essentially the Beta test, everything in the relationship between govt and those companies evolved toward domestic use in the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Twitter and Facebook began promoting the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” nonsense that was created for national media consumption by the Black Lives Matter group. … and from that moment the public-private partnership was off to the races.
Fast forward a decade, and yes, now DHS is focused on domestic extremism as the greatest public threat. Again, controlling speech that runs counter to the interest of government is part of a continuum of the same relationship.
It will be interesting to see what’s in the files.
Apple threatening Twitter?
Apple threatening Twitter?
I am repeating myself.
So who is Apple to be threatening anyone when very soon more people will be aware of Apple using basically sweatshop labor in the People’s Republic of China while having their stores in high-rent locations and asking so much more for their products.
” Its a private company, and they can do what they want”“It’s literally Nazi’s running Twitter now!”
When ya got nothing, ya know……
FacebookTwitterActress Alyssa Milano earlier tweeted “I gave back my Tesla … I bought the VW ev.”
“Wait till you learn who founded Volkswagen!” Political strategist Pete D’Abrosca posted.
“Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazi’s and Hitler,” conservative political commentators The Hodge Twins posted.
The democrat party is very much aligned with the ideals and methods of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party). The democrats use many of the same methods that the Nazis used.
+1… with feedback on this imbecile leftist Milano: https://www.westernjournal.com/alyssa-milano-trades-tesla-volkswagen-ev-elon-musk-shows-told-bad-news/#insticator-commenting
She GAVE it back?
She was probably leasing it.
Has anyone asked her if she is aware that VW monkeyed with their computers, to give fake readings during emission tests, got caught by the U.S. Govt. and had to pay a substantial fine?
Assuming she is a Global warming fanatic, that shouldn’t sit too well with her.
heheheh…. they paid big time on that one…
Alyssa Milano… always a cutie but never very bright. I recall when the entire Harvey Weinstein debacle exploded that Milano and her gal pals formed the Me Too Movement. Remember the Twitter hashtag “#MeToo”? She could never understand the irony in that monicker, LOL.
I do have a question that I believe EVERYONE wants the answer to. Let’s say that the gov’t did in fact instruct twitter to violate free speech of American citizens…and there is absolute proof of this. Now what? What happens next? Does anyone go to jail? Is there a class action lawsuit? (where even if the citizens win, they will only be getting their own tax dollars back to themselves). What is the down side to the govt for doing this?
In criminal trials, if law enforcement convinces a third party to violate another citizen’s rights, that evidence is not allowed to be used in court against the person charged with a crime. But this is not a criminal situation (at least not criminal citizen being charged with a crime by the govt…it is the actual GOVT that is the criminal. But again I ask…what happens? Is there ANY downside that will make an example of the govt to the point of it hurting enough to make sure they never do it again?
No one EVER gets arrested. No one ever gets handcuffed and perp walked. At best, they are put before other politicians where maybe the hard questions are asked…and all they do is answer questions with non-answers, or say they do not remember, take the fifth, or just plain deny…chew up the clock to where time runs out, and NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. There is NO DOWN SIDE to the govt in violating our rights….NONE!!!!
That needs to change. The tree of liberty is quite dry.
“There is NO DOWN SIDE to the govt in violating our rights….NONE!!!!”
There is one, if we exercise our 2nd Amendment right for the purpose it was intended.
Isn’t Apple the US arm of the CCP?
Apple turned off all the air drop features in China at the request of Xi- so protestors can’t share info. I heard this on ban on war room-
They been doing things like that for at least a decade.
Since Mao…
Sounds like something the Biden regime would do.
……….at the request of Xi-
Well? When the boss tells you to do something you bow-low-god-damn-ya and do it.
Yeah, and Tucker went after Apple and the NBA and some specific self-righteous tools like WArriors’ head coach Steve Kerr and NBA Commish Adam Silver.
Tucker was great….again.
Jason Whitlock along with Delano Squires and Royce White have been hitting this hard too including the NBA. And he does it better than Carlson. I believe Whitlock’s “Fearless” episodes are still carried on Youtube. Serious men who speak Truth.
“Tucker was great….again.”
Amen. I passed his program/link tonight to many folks who still can’t grasp .. truth.
Laura (hot/cold) Ingraham, on Tuck’s show, was excellent also.
Well yes, but Apple is just one U.S. arm of the CCP. There’s also the U.S. Corporate – CCP Representatives, Senators and President to factor in.
ADD: And last, but not least, the CCP – CoC Media Mob.
Along with “Nike”, Blackrock, Vanguard, the nba, and many others.
You forgot how Parler got deplatformed already?
https://people.com/tech/parler-disappeared-internet-amid-capitol-riots-fallout/
They were also deplatformed by Amazon Web Services
If you want a free speech platform you better not use any of the establishment platforms like Apple, Google, AWS, Paypal the list goes on.
When the turn-key surveillance state gets turned ON in a bit, those “platforms” are going to be the central spoke and hubs for centralized control. Hopefully people can see that. That is why they are threatening the “wandering sheep” from the conformist herd.. Like Twitter now.
Also do not get too fond of your Phone — to not be a (or be less of a…) victim of the Technocratic Tyranny that is coming with the winds of CBDCs — you are going to have to smash it with a hammer pretty soon. Together with your smart TV, smart Fridge, smart Oven, smart Speaker, smart Doorbell..
Wonder how serious he is about this comment.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3750849-elon-musk-says-he-would-make-his-own-smart-phone-if-app-stores-ban-twitter/
It won’t be feasible. Microsoft tried it and they have a lot deeper pockets than Elon Musk
Granted Microsoft made a bunch of marketing floops in typical Microsoft style. But I do not think Elon will be able to pull it off realistically. Windows Phone failed on the apps available for it. The developers did not want to make 3 versions of their applications.
The OS was great. I had one for a while. Though preferences differ, I found the UI of Windows Phone in smoothness and usability to be superior to what Apple and Google had at the time.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/407483/windows-10-mobile-phones-are-dead.html
There’s open phone or De-Googled phones, but then you will not have anything from the Google App store. But by the time the surveillance state activates I doubt you will have apetite to use the appstore anymore, anyway 😉
De googled phone link
https://de-googled.com/
Good info, thank you,
Just also read this which takes the perspective that Musk is shooting across the bow of Apple with multiple guns and they may both just make a bunch of noise before agreeing to disagree without going to war.
At any rate, it’s an interest situation unfolding.
Calyx OS is the easiest and it works quite well.
I have never bought or downloaded an “app”.
I use my android for a phone, for texting or internet access.
I use mine… ff..ffor (GULP) phone calls.
Me too.
Always wondered why companies can’t just have the app on their own website and just download from there, especially if the app is free? 🧐
Then you should get a Flip phone like Nokia used to make. A dumb phone not a smart phone.
Definitely would choose nothing with Android and Playstore. There’s all kinds of muck that gets installed on your phone as part of “maintenance” and your user data is being sent in a continuous stream to Google. This is the default out of the box experience, and you can’t uninstall or refuse Google’s apps. (not without breaking it in some obvious or subtle way anyway)
Google is not search engine anymore, it is an advertising company and personal tracking company.
But there is a difference here. I would buy a Musk phone just to tell Apple and Android to go pound sand. I understand that Microsoft failed, but Microsoft a has questionable ethical history when it comes to protecting its users… Microsoft only cares about the dollars
I’m interested.
best make his own platform first. I’ve heard he has good engineers…/s
Just throwing out some ideas here…….
Would it be possible, feasible, for Musk to parter with a firm outside of China, say maybe Nokia, to build the hardware. Maybe work within some sort of Linux platform to create an operating system, and have the whole package geared toward utilizing his Starlink satellite constellation? Maybe he could offer world wide phone access that’s free from the cell towers and government snooping that goes along with it?
Just a thought.
I recall reading that he hoped to take Starlink in such a direction, never imagined he’d create a phone to enable it, but he may well have to, and won’t they regret it.
So, a different kind of “Sat phone”?
I bet they would still figure out a way to bug it, unless the ehole system was somehow encrypted.
And maybe he’s already working on that very thing.
This. My belief is that that’s the actual threat he’s making, and it’s directed at the IC who really controls Apple and Alphabet.
Gab was kicked off of both app stores in 2018. Parler was not the first.
Keep watching whats happening in China, as it MAY turn out the tyranists were “too clever by half” and will be “hoist with their own petard.
Also covrred on the Warroom;
They HAVE fully instituted the Digital I.D. including “Social scoring”.
Everywhere you go, you have to show your phone, to show you have tested as not infected, and the Govt can “deplatform” you, whivh means you can’t work, have no bank acct, no credit, nothing.
And that means when Millions of people stand in protest, calling for the end of Xi and the CCP, ….
THEY CAN’T BACK DOWN.
They KNOW, the minute they join the protests, their life and the lives of their families are forfeit, and so tanks and troops hold no fear over them, as its “kill me now, or kill me later”.
I don’t think this aspect ever occurred to the tyranists, as people often don’t see the downsides of a new technology, until in hindsight it becomes obvious.
wrt ‘THEY CAN’T BACK DOWN.’
Dangerous to back people into a corner—as oft said, a hero is only a coward who gets cornered.
As Scott Alexander of ‘Slate Star Codex’ wrote in a 2014 essay—fittingly, a tale from China’s own history (bold added):
(Alexander, S. (2014, August 31). Radicalizing the Romanceless. Slate Star Codex, https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-romanceless/)
Lets do a survey!
Who thinks twitters owner is going to physically survive this threat?
Yes
NO
I’m thinking he’s a little worried about that… 😏
It is a 3D printed replica of a gun from a video game called a Diamond Back .357, it is not real, we won’t stop anyone with that piece of plastic.
Jason Whitlock on Tucker
Android too!
Google and the others don’t want their dirty laundry to see the light of day.
Isn’t the Samsung phone the most expensive common model, at over $1500 bucks?
“Sweat shop labor”?
It was a PRISON CAMP, which is far worse than “sweatshop” labor!
And, when the massive protests erupted acriss China, the CCP reqursted/ordered Apple to shut off crucial (to the protesters) communication tools they were using, and Apple complied.
Face it, Big tech is the enemy of liberty seeking individuals, every where.
How many even know there are currently protests as big as the protests that occurred across China during theclead up to Tienamen Square, calling for the CCP and Xi to step down.
And the protesters KNOW there is NO stepping down, for them.
The CCP now has theur digital I.D. system in place, as an integral part of their “Zero Covid policy”, ironically what has fueled the protests.
That means the CCP knows who every one of the protesters ARE, and at any time can ‘deplatform’ them and their families, and they will have no $ to buy anything, no ability to work, unable to even move around, hence once they stand up, as 10’s of millions have, THEY CAN’T BACK DOWN.
There is no repeat of Tienamen, where the Govt slaughters 10,000, and the rest run home, and everybody forgets it happened.
This may well be “the beginning of the end” of the CCP and Xi.
“sweatshops”, sheesh.
Who in their right mind trusts Apple.
What difference does it make which phone you have or who is threatening who? Every call you make is recorded. Every web search, every email, and every post is recorded. We are already living in dystopia.
Amen.
Elon himself uses IPhone:
Sorry to point out the obvious … but Apple is headed by a flaming homosexual … a Queer … who appears bent on erasing every traditional American who embraces our traditional culture. He will not hesitate to erase our every word, thought, and deed.
I guess you are not too familiar with Catholics, Protestants, etc. Not much difference.
Really? I’ve not witnessed any corporate censorship of gays or lesbians by either Catholics or Protestants. Unless … the gay/lesbian/trans people in question insisted on making their sexuality their ONLY and FLAMBOYANT identity. Unless the gay/lesbians insisted on changing the doctrine of Christ.
i have worked with many, many gay men … and even recently had a lesbian couple for clients. Doesn’t matter to me one whit what they prefer to do in the bedroom. But they focused on the work and projects at hand … never forcing my obedience and compliance to their proclivities. And BTW … I wouldn’t want to work with heterosexual “swingers” either. Human sexuality should be private. No sexual orientation needs a Parade or forced “Pride” month or whatever. Just get on with it … and leave me alone.
That’s not what the Queer Apple Corp. is doing. They are FORCING us to march in their Parade. Or else.
Disney is doing the same thing yet with the more insidious inculcation of kids.
It’s a wicked world.
You may want to look a little harder.. without bias.
You’re confusing “accepting” someone’s homosexuality when the practice of such is contrary to Church doctrine … to actual discrimination
There is a difference. One company with much power vs. random religious leaders who influence a comparatively small number of people.
Talking about sexual proclivities:
Joe Biden’s non-binary drag queen nuclear waste guru Sam Brinton, 34, is charged with THEFT after they were ‘caught on camera stealing a bag’ from Minneapolis Airport’s baggage claim
Sam Brinton, 34, whose full title was as the DOE’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition is accused of taking a suitcase from an airportBrinton was caught on surveillance cameras at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport taking a blue bag off baggage claim after flying in from Washington A woman reported the bag missing later that day and Brinton was identifiedBrinton claimed to have not taken the bag but then changed their mind admitting to removing the case adding it was by mistake because they were tiredIf found guilty they could now face five years in jail, a $10,000 fine, or both
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479159/DOE-spent-fuel-chief-Sam-Brinton-charged-felony-theft-Minnesota.html
The Bidinh Cabinet is creepy … really creepy. These people are not normal … or sane. And they’re put in positions of POWER over us … normies. Sick. It’s really SICK
What’s all this “they” crap? We’re there more than one? Split personality? I refuse to debase the English language just because a mentally disturbed person wants me to do so.
“were”. Dam spellcheck.
Apple phones ought to be thrown in a bonfire and burned. Of course, their competitor is no better.
Get a privacy phone. I did. No google apps allowed and it’s not an iPhone.
We should all use the phones of a Muslim Terrorist … nothing but burners
“Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House”
02/05/2014
The MB is the wellspring of modern jihad, and is banned in several islamic countries along with several western countries. In a SANE country, 0bama should have been impeached for this association alone. But orange man bad.
“Valerie Jarrett Addresses the Islamic Society of North America
JULY 6, 2009 AT 6:22 PM
Continuing President Obama’s outreach to Muslims, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke at the Islamic Society of North America’s 46th Annual Convention. The Convention, themed “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness,” brought together thousands of Muslim Americans to our nation’s capital over the July 4th weekend.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) maintains that it is the largest Muslim American organization in the United States.
In her remarks, Jarrett spoke of the importance of President Obama’s Cairo speech, where he emphasized that the United States and Muslim communities share fundamental values, such as justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of human beings.
She quoted the President in emphasizing the many contributions of Muslim Americans to the United States:
Since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic torch.
She continued by emphasizing that:
I will tell you, it is not always easy to identify American “Muslim” business leaders, scientists, artists, athletes, and so on. Not because there aren’t any, but because there are too many, and they are known for their talents and character – not simply their religion. This is a great thing. It is a reflection of the American dream, which is ultimately rooted in these values that we all share – values that are common to all of humanity. And just as we share common values, we also share common dreams – for security, progress, and opportunity.
After acknowledging the diligent work and great contribution of Muslim Americans to American society, Jarrett encouraged Muslim Americans to respond to President Obama’s call to service. She asked that they participate in United We Serve this summer, and utilize http://www.serve.gov to post service projects and find other opportunities.”
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2009/07/06/valerie-jarrett-addresses-islamic-society-north-america
And there you see how a mouthpiece for the MB can be given a platform @ the WaPoop & morphed into a “journalist.”
Adnan Kashoggi was taken out by his own gubmint on sovereign territory on foreign soil & that became the murder of an “American journalist.”
And this has WHAT to do, with Elon Musk and Twitter, and specifically his threat to reveal “the files”?
Back when we had a First Amendment, this would have been a mighty big problem for the Biden Administration. But that was a long time ago…
What will the ‘toolbox’ reveal? And when did the government do what? The dates will be interesting against the timelines of what we know.
If anyone is allowed to see it.
Guess we will find out if the govt has a backdoor to entirely shut down the twitter platform.
A good way to locate the backdoors. testing 1, 2, 3 ( dump “Files on Free Speech” ).
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Observe where the backdoors are.
Did Musk really spend $44M just to destroy this tool? I have to say that if this is the case I’ll admire him greatly for that action. Plus he’ll still own the intellectual rights so no other company can copy it.
He did it as a catalyst to launch his vision of x.com – the company that merged with PayPal giving Elon the largest amount of shares. Elon was pushed out as CEO of PayPal while honeymooning out-of-the-country. Thiel’s group wanted to go a different direction.
Read Ashley Vance’s Elon Musk biography (his childhood and move from South Africa to Canada to the US and then his first to companies that got him the wealth to dump into Tesla and Space X is covered in the first few chapters). It’s well worth the read (I listened to it on audible). You’ll have a good understanding of how Musk thinks and how he views the world and technology.
In the book she shares a conversation she had wi to Elon about AI, he’s good friends with Larry Page (one of Google founders) and knows he wouldn’t do it on purpose but Elon was scared that Page had no clue that AI good wind up bad if not properly controlled (also discussed within the first few chapters)
And remember x.com and PayPal got started when blackberry’s, AOL, MySpace and DSL were cool. What Elon wanted x.com to become is only possibly with current technology.
He’s very intelligent and thinks we’ll beyond most people’s comprehension of what is possible.
Eric: I see that you have to fight your spellcheck just like I do.
I’ll look into it.
I’m going to have a good laugh if he destroys Twitter. The people who were banned are wetting themselves to get back on, Wayne Allen Root was just saying he’s so excited because he’ll be back on next week. What a knucklehead.
That’s $44B.
Now yer’ startin’ to talk real money . . .
It’s play money, to him, anyway.
Besides they made him go through with it when he wanted to pull out so this is him getting his money’s worth.
Billion with a “b”.
Billion.
$44 Billion.
NOW – White House is keeping a “close eye” on Twitter.
Of course they are. They always keep track of those who can expose them and ruin their nice set up.
Sorry Karine, in spite of what the WH thinks, Biden is not a king and the first Amendment still applies.
When the government allows it to be applied.
Speech = violence. I think “these people” (said as Chris Plante says it), pull out the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights daily, and put little checkmarks next to what they’ve just about destroyed. I know I’m not supposed to hate, but I cannot pray for evil.
Musk doing more for freedoms than any repub in DC. Yea, expose them all!
I don’t know about restoring freedom, but Musk has done more to expose the Left-Social Media collusion than all the Repulicans put together.
True. Maybe he would like to be part of the renowned President Trump and sundance Sunlight Club.
It’s a far more exclusive club than that other Big Ugly one…
Plus – it’s fun.
Doesn’t take too much to out do the R’s these days though, does it?
Interesting the degree of involvement Zero has here, this morning I read this bit that also smells all too Hussein, about the use of Twitter to manage the Plantation:
Whitlock: Killing ‘Black Twitter’ would be Elon Musk’s greatest accomplishment
It’s the primary tool used to impose the progressive agenda. It’s how George Soros, Barack Obama, and corporate media silence dissent. Black Twitter is a gang of mercenaries hired by the uniparty establishment to smear dissenters with allegations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Black Twitter is an algorithm created by engineers and monitored by Northern California Millennials. Musk’s elimination of more than half of Twitter’s workforce severely curtails the efficiency and effectiveness of Black Twitter.
It was B Hussein Obola, after all, who signed over control of our internet to a foreign entity, just prior to President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. I also recall a certain homegrown bioweapon was released to the Wuhan lab, approximately ten days before Donald Trump entered the White House.
What else did that little twerp do right before he slithered out of DC? Oh yes, he instigated a bogus investigation to spy on his political rival.
Imagine where our country would be right now if we only had real journalists, a Congress elected by and for the American people and a bonafide Department of Justice?
Good reminder, thanks. But I’ve forgotten to which foreign entity…
If federal laws were broken and the constitutionally protected rights of citizens violated, there seem to be few places if any today where citizens can go for redress.
I hope Musk has good security. Things didn’t exactly work out well for JFK.
He posted this:
That doesn’t mean what you think it means. It means a lot more, actually.
I posted some of the meanings on the presidential thread.
Deus Ex gun, vajra.
I looked but couldn’t find your post, but I think he implied something about fighting back, especially because of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on the background. I think he meant that he’s not afraid.
It is just what jumped at me, seeing the picture and reading his words.
Anerican Revolution – freedom from the British throne. Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve to take Trenton, implying we are at a similar point in time. Live free or die. Armed with a ( replica) pistol.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. That is the gun that is displayed below, from the game.
The main character in the game goes through a series of adventures as an augmented human, has to decide the future of transhumanism at the end.
That metal thing is a Vajra – a diamond thunderbolt club Indra used to destroy a fellow Hindu god in the form of a snake (kill the snake). Destroys illusions.
Circles where he says he didn’t use a coaster, drawing attention to them. Is that a pentagram in the far circle?
There’s probably some meaning to the arrangement of the gold coke cans too, but if there is it’s not obvious to me.
There’s a lot there.
Just some observations…..I see “k Free” turned facing out on the gold Coke cans. Maybe…thousand/thousands free……something to do with gold. Maybe Dec 24th has some meaning in regards to this.
Yes. I don’t see a trigger. Cylinder is also unfinished or skeletonized.
Looks like a mockup.
Maybe……trigger is not ready yet….all cylinders need to be ready to fire.
Elon – Bro, there are four, 1,2,3, 4 cans of Coke on your night stand. If you don’t get a substitute drink soon, you’ll have to invest in a hemo-dialysis machine!
Seriously, that was some serious sugar you imbibed. Weight gain and diabetes follows.
Don’t want you to go that route. Hire a good chef and go “Tom Brady” for a good menu.
We all want you to live a long life.
diet coke…..
Even worse….!
No trigger?
BTW, JFK stole his election from Nixon. True story.
Yup. Stuffed ballot boxes in Chicago and Texas.
Where is the evidence?
They have the reciepts, Joan if you care to look.
A “moll” (a ‘girlfriend’ of a gangster was given a suitcase full of $, to take by train to Chicago, and two mobsters babysat all the way.
Sorry, i can’t recall any names, but it has all been documented.
No. He only campaigned and smiled at the TV camera. Daddy Joe Sr. was the one in charge of the ballot count.
I hope he knows Edward Snowden and big Kim, and that together they’ll see, hear and know anything that’s coming their way — long before it/they get there.
In a fascist culture, the line between the private and the public disappears.
For leftists, even very wealthy leftists, this is entirely the appeal.
Thanks to leftist name-calling and propaganda, the meaning of fascist will remain forever cryptic.
Fascism has now seized the imaginations of most leftists.
America’s rich guys (Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates etc.) will play along to avoid the confiscation of their vast wealth.
The American variation of leftism, progressivism, has easily morphed into fascism.
And Marxism has been tried in Cuba and Venezuela and failed woefully.
So fascism remains the only silly soldier standing.
All you elderly cold warriors need to stop ranting about communism/Marxism etc.
This is the existential battle we face.
Are the leftists who dominate our federal bureaucracy and the richest people on earth not opposition enough for you?
Yeah, I enjoy having 90% of the world’s power and wealth arrayed against me..(guffaw)
“America’s rich guys (Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates etc.) will play along to avoid the confiscation of their vast wealth.”
And still the day will come when the vacuum they supported consumes them as well.
Fascism is Marxism already.
All the collectivist “isms” are merely theft and murder on a grand scale, nothing more.
The differences usually simply involve who exactly is doing the thieving and murdering.
Not hard at all to see the kenyan’s filthy paws all over the “government” steering of social media. If it benefited his besties in the muslim brohood, the kenyan was knee deep in it. Like to hear what dirt Israeli Intelligence has on him. Since the kenyan was pretty open in his hatred of Israel, we’d likely learn all of the same criminally corrupt players are still right in the thick of the “government’s” war with America’s middle class.
sooo.. when will the MSM propogandists come up with a cute name for the Chinese present uprising? The whole arab spring thing was so much BS. some were fooled by that nonsense.
I already have my own name for it. MSM can borrow it for free …TICK TOK 2.0
Actually, it already DOES have a name; the “white paper” rebellion, named for the protesters holding up blank white paper, to convey theirvlack of free speech.
Holding up a protest sign, with pretty much any words on it, certainly anything critical of the Govt. is ILLEGAL.
Of coarse, the protesters are toast, unless Xi and the CCP step down.
Is FB trying to get ahead of the curve?
Facebook recently confirmed its ties to the US military and military-linked pro-war propaganda pages on its platform.
Facebook’s parent company Meta has acknowledged the discovery of several clusters of fake accounts and pages believed to be linked to individuals “associated with the US military,” according to the company’s latest adversarial threat report published this week.
“Although the people behind this operation attempted to conceal their identities and coordination, our investigation found links to individuals associated with the US military,” the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.
The social media giant admitted that the large-scale operation ran beyond those several dozen accounts and across many other internet platforms, including Twitter, YouTube and Telegram – as well as major Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.
The US Military (Standing Army) is not America’s friend.
i hope Musk and twitter survive the transition.
Part of me can’t help but think if the Private-Public Oligarchy really felt maintaining control over Twitter was essential, it would have kept control over Twitter. It has moved on to the Next Big Thing in control and manipulation.
I have a growing suspicion we are in the position of a dog owner who has located a missing slipper, the one he suspected the naughty puppy had run off with. While we’re investigating the slipper, the naughty puppy has moved on to tearing up the carpet in the next room. By the time we get to the carpet, the puppy will be digging up the garden.
The problem is not the slipper. The problem is the puppy.
And its not playing with our slipper, or even tearing up the garden,…
Its sh*tting on our head, while we are sleeping!
I wonder if twitter would be a useful tool for exposing the selection and installation of the current resident in the WH?
I am beginning to wonder if Elon Musk is having fun by exposing as much as he can. No idea what his motive might be, not sure I could believe him to be a “white hat”, but he seems to be getting quite a charge out of exposing things that had been hidden.
Going around the internet right now is the video clip that had been suppressed of President Donald J. Trump telling everyone on January 6 to go home peacefully, respect the law, etc. These are old clips that Twitter had blocked.
I am sure that in his “discovery” phase and the negotiations earlier this year, Mr. Musk became aware of Jacks Magic Coffee Shop financials. The only reason for him to continue on with the purchase must have been for reasons other than profit, unless he has some ideas to remake the platform. However, as we’ve seen with Tesla, Mr. Musk does not always have profit as a motive.
Could be he needs leverage over the feds.
Yes.
you get it.
same reason Gavin is saying he won’t challenge.
its all a tickle to say I’ll sell my soul just talk to me about the price.
Tesla is not about profit??
Must be nice.
He’s making a killing with SpaceX so I suspect he will survive.
It doesn’t really matter at this point why he’s doing it.
Musk does like to stir things up. I’ll note that the government has recently started to get Tesla in their crosshairs – so a little payback?
“donate to my campaign if you get the message elon”
I don’t think there should be any doubt that Musk knows how to play the game.
But is it 64D chess on them or us?
Anyway, the alternative was Twitter as it was, so I’ll take it.
I believe the cia were using twitter as tools of their destabilization trade before the arab springs. I see twitter and facebook as tools of the intel community with the “owners” as front men. A step beyond the cia shadow corporations of the 1980’s like Southern Air. Occams razor tells me that twitter was not put into the hands of Musk, who also was in partners as spacex etc with the military and intel community as random coincidence. Spacex and his other corps with defense and intelligence importance must be of great value to the agencies. My gut tells me that Musk has the rubber stamp of approval from the defense and intelligence community and like all the other white hats before him has yet to show us the rhyme and reason behind his behaviors. Similar to past white hat politicians who were first seen as saviors and it was only afterwards that their purpose was truly evident: Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller, Wray, Durham and many others whose names I have already forgotten.
a private entity with a front man is the best structure for the defense and intel community.
interesting take.
Agree, interesting. Then again, Occam’s Razor actually would say this is just a quirky guy who wants to do the right thing because it literally drives him obsessively bonkers since he sees what’s wrong & the need to fix it.
I would not be surprised to see the censorship MO see the light of day, and there be some emotional family scrutiny (with lots of damage control) that lets Biden decide he’s not running to spare the family.
You assume there is only one faction.
Events suggest at least two.
If we deserve to know what really happened … then do we deserve a do-over 2020 election without Fascist election tampering by The Deep State?
We probably deserve a do-over of something like two to three decades of elections.
Deserving and achieving are far different things – as I’m sure you know.
To all the naysayers out there, all I can say is go get em Elon!
That’s picking a pretty big fight with some nasty people with the full power of the federal government behind them.
Grandes bolas!
Or is it something else?
Better just do it-why warn everyone?
This right here Tiff. If it was going to come out he would have already outed it. Unless he has given up his will to live.
Tiffthis: Everything Mr. Musk has done has been of great use to the federal government. Twitter will be no different. Mr. Musk is the personification of the “public-private partnership.” We don’t even know what he actually does, aside from what we are told, either by himself, or others who feed off him like a pilot fish off a shark.
Maybe it’s a warning shot?
Perhaps it is to see / monitor what happens after he made the announcement? 🤔
For example, his President Trump poll. Could see him watching in real-time how twitter ‘reacted’ to that poll.
The issue is the lack of laws permitting this invalidation of our 1st Amendment, it’s not that they have taken this power in the absence of proper oversight, it’s that they know it’s wrong or they would have passed laws to permit it. Dem admins have operated outside the law for too long.
I hope he is not making the same tragic mistake others before him have made by announcing his intentions ahead of time to a powerful foe.
You should never give a ruthless enemy a heads up to your plans.
Just do.
Agree. I have felt since he started this talk itvis either some kind of head fake or very stupid if straightforward. Should not be announcing bupkiss in my opinion. Way too dangerous.
The whole world is being run by a Fascist regime!
Netherlands have confiscated 3000 farms to achieve environmental goals. Germany has just 4 months of meat left.
The whole world has gone mad!
Not exactly, for they are merely willing foot soldiers.
Here is the real story:
“The whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (First John 5:19 ESV).
Start yoga tomorrow it will help you cope. It’s a mess but Germany will not run out of sausage in March.
The Netherlands is doing that for the same reason Bill Gates is buying up farmland.
Gates doesn’t plan to do anything with the land. The point is to make it permenately fallow.
Depopulation.
The elites have been talking about the population “problem” for decades.
Ergo, Wuhan flu.
Well if that is that deranged madman’s plan, all that land will be in good shape for new planting by new purchasers in a few years after Gates’ power is removed by wealth confiscation resulting from giant COVID-1984 lawsuits.
(Looking on the possibly bright side, as usual.)
“He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad”.
Opening words of Scaramouche inscribed on the tombstone of the author, Rafael Sabatini.
Nothing new under the sun.o
Oops. “THE gift of laughter.
I don’t think Musk is that hard to figure out. What good does it do you to have “F you” money unless you occasionally spend big chunks of it on things that say “F you”? What does a man who literally has everything do for kicks?
Elon says look in my eye,do you see a give a shit !
Elon may soon be sleeping with the fishes. The left are loons.
I’ve read pro & con opinions about Musk but trying to expose and fix the suppression of free speech on Twitter is definitely a step in the right direction no matter what you think of him. The looney left’s reaction to this confirms this and is entertaining too. I liken it to how President Trump caused the rats to expose themselves and their nefarious ways.
Yes – when you think about it, Musk is angering all the correct people.
That was good when PDJT did it. I also like it now.
I don’t really trust Musk.
But he is still my favorite African-American
Is Elon Musk willing to subvert Twitter and his investment to reveal such information? Is he strong enough to take the heat that will follow? Will the government be able to prevent those files from being made public?
I am sure that the government is working with their lawfare partners to try to suppress any public disclosure.
It will be interesting to watch this play out.
Musk needs to put out a statement that he is not suicidal. . . seriously.
He may be in even more danger right now than Donald Trump.
Yep
If I recall correctly, he already twatted that.
With the actors in the Fourth Branch it has to be said – ‘Elon did not kill himself’
I am praying it is everything they did to President TRUMP, the Commander in Chief, and who ordered it.
If that is not included I will know it is a farce.
Excellent point, TwoLaine 🙂
“Twitter CEO Elon Musk Says He Will Publicly Reveal Twitter’s “Files on Free Speech,” and Implies Coordination with Government“
I almost had my first hear attack.
On first reading, it read to me like Musk implied he would coordinate said release with the government.
offcoursenation: I’ll save you the heart attack. Of course, he’s coordinating with the government. Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink require intensive coordination with the federal government. Why would Twitter under Musk’s ownership be any different?
Because the Law of Averages says we have got to win sometime?
offcoursenation: Due to disparate impact on the nation’s vulnerable and underserved populations, the law of averages has been suspended 😳
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“President Obama wanted to assist the Muslim Brotherhood achieve the goal of removing Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Khaddaffi respectively.”
So did John McCain and Lindsey Graham! At least with regards to the Muslim Brotherhood. After the Muslim Brotherhood had been overthrown in Egypt they both went over there to try to intimidate the Egyptians into returning them to power. Many Egyptians wanted to put them on trial for supporting terrorism and trying to destroy Egypt.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/msm-blackout-egyptians-enraged-by-u-s-outreach-to-muslim-brotherhood/
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM (Second to none expert on Islam)
I’m guessing there had to be some sort of financial benefit somewhere in that piece of treason.
Bottom Line / Cliff Notes:
1945: America helped defeat fascist countries.
2022: America is a fascist country.
Pretty much.
I’m not sure that the deep state glommed on to the appeal of Twitter and Facebook only in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. That entire movement was created on Twitter when that kid supposedly set himself on fire.
they beat us – because they do Public Relations – and do not care if its a 100% convincing rate.
They will target the division of twitter ended already – and say they flagged files if they met hate crimes or language of blah blah.
information is just to point out you are screwed- start rethinking
If Apple and Android remove the Twitter app, Musk has said he will build his own cell phone.
Facebook Confirms Ties to US Military and Military-Linked Propaganda Campaigns – Military Accounts Also Found on Google-YouTube and Twitter
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/facebook-confirms-ties-us-military-military-linked-propaganda-campaigns-military-accounts-also-found-google-youtube-twitter/
Musk dishes it to Vindman
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/trump-impeachment-figure-alexander-vindman-goes-war-elon-musk/
Good, but can’t trust this unit Musk who in the end is still a leftist. He’s too erratic just like Kanye West aka “ye”.
@WallStreetApes
1h
Damn this is up to over half a million likes.. INSANE. @realDonaldTrump’s poll to be reinstated for 800k likes which amounted to 15 million people seeing it. This post is trending to beat that post. That’s a lot of people
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So what happens when these “Twitter Files” prove government collusion with old Twitter which would 100% amount to election interference? Let me guess… NOTHING… The United States is the most corrupt country on the face of this earth. Criminals DO NOT self police themselves
Why Big Tech will ‘stop at nothing to stop Elon Musk’
Interesting observations.
WTF is going on right now with Elon, Twitter, Apple, Google, and the project of free speech on the internet?
There’s real 4D chess going on beneath the memes.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597316403589451776.html
Fascinating…worth the two minutes…thanks for posting BitterC
Agreed. Just build the dam phone Elon and be done with them.
Yet-another closed proprietary phone will not change anything. Unless he uses his podium to call for open platforms and standards for open information exchange between those platforms, Musk will just become the new monopolist. There are open-source phone platforms out there today.
Also consider that there many other control points that Apple and Google have e.g. control of application interfaces, application distribution (AppStore), cloud storage, user agreements, cellphone carrier distribution and support, government funding etc
The open-source community already knows how to bust up Apple and Googles platform control – they have been battling it for decades. If Musk starts calling for that, we may see a light at the end of this tunnel.
As Android is open source, I imagine whatever new phone he created would be based on that to start. But you fling this term “proprietary” around as if you know what it means in this context. While there are some open hardware phone projects out here you would be hard pressed to actually see any in use. So pretty much all phones out there today are proprietary in one form or another including Google’s own flagship phones where the F/OSS variants of android will not be able to operate all functions of a Google phone when loaded … often the radio and/or the camera hardware are locked behind something which is closed source.
Google ensured Android was restricted open source. deGoogled versions of it have been forked and now operate independent of Google even on Pixel phones.
Open hardware makes for a better picture but is not necessary.
I use this deGoogled open system running on a Samsung phone, it looks and acts as well as any Android or iphone I’ve had. There is an App store that analyzes app-tracking features and optional cloud service that allow me to own my own data if I choose to.
https://e.foundation/
Musk’s satellite phone, available now, delivers via Google. It works anywhere in the world and when cell towers are down or non existent and during the destruction of wars. Available for a $600. purchase of the equipment plus a monthly fee.
When ready to release them for sale Spring 2022, Musk queried if people would buy them. After the blowback he asked the question, would you not buy one because of Google. Apparently CIA, DOD, FBI – US Government marriage with Google is a far bigger negative never, no, then Musk realized.
From their literature it looks like VOIP (Voice over internet) with Starlink providing the internet. It is not a satellite phone in the same sense as Iridium phone which uses proprietary connections.
Any cellphone can be configured to place calls without cellphone service using an app and VOIP. It does require an internet connection which Starlink or any other ISP the phone can connect to via WiFi. After the call leaves Starlink, it still needs the rest of the internet to be up and running unless you only want to talk to someone else on Starlink.
Cellular carriers are no longer technically necessary for voice – it can all be done with mobile internet (data plan) or standard connected internet/WiFi.
On my open source eFoundation phone, I have a data-only SIM card (no voice or text) and a VOIP phone app. I can call and receive voice calls to/from anywhere in world using WiFi or cellular data.
Musk is creating a private version of what he could be championing as open source and standards for free market competition.
So to answer your question, using an Android phone with the Starlink app would still have all the same Google surveillance, privacy and tracking running on it that it would running over the cellular carriers. I would use a de-googled opensource phone assuming the Starlink app was available.
“All I know is that it’s embarrassing that we rely on one man for so much.”
That is an understatement of the crucial issue. No time in the history of this country has such a dangerous monopoly gotten so big for so long without any leaders even willing to call it out, let alone, scatter it to the wind. Now that monopoly controls information flow, content, controls elections, spews propaganda and is running mass surveillance for the government.
Musk is the first with the podium to do so. Let’s see if there are calls now to bust them up – but not like Bell, IBM and Microsoft were – this time force the players into open standards and open source. The government cannot do this without making it worse. The industry must be forced to do it and the open-source community must be put in charge.
When we hear Musk call for this, we will know which side of liberty his money is on.
4D chess?
Looks more like mud wrestling to me.
or hyenas circling
Thanks for the read. I like Threadreaderapp cuz I can read w/o giving Twitter any clicks.
Elon gets all his money from the US government
he also sells most of his cars in China
Elon is the tech equivalent of Ron
he is not insane, so he looks amazing and conservative
its bullshit, he is a globalist