The authoritarian government of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, a man of notoriously manipulative and unstable disposition intent on recreating the Ottoman empire, demanded that in advance of their elections Twitter remove the voice of the opposition party. Elon Musk complied:
This decision is interesting because it shows that despite his questions about the need to defend democracy and free speech, Twitter owner Elon Musk is willing to support the removal of opposition political parties during elections.
Musk justifies this decision by saying the choice was between shutting down a political viewpoint or shutting down all of Turkish Twitter access. Musk chose to simply eliminate one set of voices in opposition to the existing government in Turkey.
When Rumble was faced with a similar threat from France, Rumble stood with the principle of freedom and refused to block content the administration of Emmanuel Macron did not like. Rumble left France rather than comply with authoritarian censorship demands. Twitter remains operational in Turkey, willing to support the authoritarian censorship demands. An interesting contrast.
I have fielded many calls in the past few days about this seemingly 180° reversal from Elon Musk in his ‘speech’ positions. The hiring of Linda Yaccarino was one massive datapoint that seemed to indicate the priorities of Musk had changed. The acquiescent to Turkish government requests less than 24 hours later is another datapoint.
The general questions all fall in the spectrum of ‘what has changed’?
I will answer here, what I have answered privately.
When I published my thesis on the background of Twitter called Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop, the essential outline contained two basic cornerstones.
First, the United States government was operating to control the information on the Twitter platform with direct access to the content. Second, the USG was subsidizing it.
Two years ago, people thought I was nuts about government control over content. However, in the last several months the information from within Twitter, specifically the Twitter Files outlining the DHS influence and control, has verified exactly the issue CTH noted in the very first outline of Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
However, it is the second aspect behind the platform that people have yet to recognize. When the fulsome story is told in hindsight, you will see that I am correct.
The second aspect is that Twitter cannot financially exist as a viable communication platform without government subsidy.
As it is currently structured, including the AWS cloud-based services for data processing, the costs associated with handling 30 million active simultaneous users (24/7) exceeds the business model for self-sufficiency. It simply costs too much without ownership of the metal.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), and other cloud-based services (Microsoft etc), are efficient for platforms who do not then need to employ as many engineers to keep the data processing operational; but they are very costly.
Data processing for 30 million simultaneously active users engaging with the platform is extremely expensive. Every engagement feature makes this issue worse. It is simply an issue of scale. Unfortunately, unlike traditional business models, the per user costs do not decrease as the number of simultaneous users increase.
There is no viable business model for a ‘free’ or low-cost user-based platform that requires data processing for this scale of simultaneous users without a massive amount of money to create the actual servers (metal-based operations). A cloud service (AWS) is expensive, and Musk is on the hook for every penny in data processing cost.
There have also been many reports that AWS is technically an endpoint U.S. government operation. Meaning the actual data processing is done by systems attached to U.S. government operations. While staying away from the granular tech on this issue, it remains most likely that government subsidy underpins the ability of Twitter to exist and function as a platform.
The motive behind the public-private partnership is symbiotic and long precedes Musk purchasing the platform.
The evolution of Twitter from a private to a quasi-public institution under the control of DHS took place over a decade. Essentially from 2012 (Arab Spring), and the first requests of the U.S. government for assistance, to the present day. As the public-private partnership relationship grew, Twitter was viewed as beneficial to the interests of the U.S. government as a controlled communication platform, and the financial subsidy to retain the viability of the platform was predictable as an outcome.
As with all things connected to the deep state IC, over time controlling content on the platform became increasingly obvious. The Twitter files reveal the scale of this issue as it was available to understand via internal communication correspondence. However, as admitted by the journalists requesting the searches of the Twitter database, they really don’t know the full scale and scope of the government involvement in Twitter. My personal suspicions of govt scale greatly exceed those journalistic reviews, driven in part by my experience as a target of the background actors.
Which brings me back to the question that everyone asks me about the motive for Musk’s ideological reversal. Surprise, it’s the money!
There is only one force more powerful than the firmly committed and espoused ideology of an altruistic mind, ECONOMICS.
The economics of the thing always supersedes and overpowers the other issues related to the thing. If the U.S. government wanted to shift the full scale of cost to operate Twitter onto the shoulders of Musk, the platform would not survive.
Tap Musk on the shoulder, or allow Musk to discover this financial dependency organically, and suddenly the reality of the thing changes. Nothing changes espoused opinion faster than money, just ask Steve Cortes.
It is a simple truth in everything: if you see a person change opinion quickly and radically, look at the money behind them.
There are two vectors for economics to change things. First, the gain of money as an enticement. Ex. you do this, you get paid. The second vector is more powerful, the removal of money as an enticement. Ex. you do this, or the existing payment stops.
If you look at the financial background of an abrupt change, almost every time you will find the answer to the motive that puzzles you.
There is absolutely no justifiable explanation for Musks actions. At least none that support freedom.
I hope the yakky lady has gotten boosters on a regular basis and continues to get them.
saline for me, mRNA for thee
YES PLEASE !
Ensure that the most poison filled vials would be just perfect.
Cannot wait to see the 5g frequency band, track, control and zap with highest MHz and dbW available.
Think of them as our personal food taster.
Are you kidding the death shot is for us serfs, not the high and mighty of the WEF!!! She never went anywhere near the vaccine!!! 🤨
This is if we buy the logic of a hard binary choice.
How about, hire Ms. Woke with the goal of increasing sales 30%? 100%?
And how much do servers cost?
With his Paul Bunyan axe to head count (down 80%?) and office space, he could ramp up hardware purchases 100%, 200%. Who knows.
This could also be a medium play – increase revenue, stop the bleeding, assuage his investors while he adds more hardware.
Musk knows far more than we do. Where are his IT hubs? Is Five Eyes involved?
It does appear the Deep State is moving heaven and earth to prevent Trump 2.0. Controlling Twitter, & taking TC off the stage are big moves.
RFK Jr appears to be a new player – openly calling out the CIA for the likely murder of his uncle. The Democrats obviously don’t want him debating Mumbles.
The Dems do want RFK2.0 to suck Walk Aways back from PDJT.
Should have shut down access to the entire population but only first after having plastered an advisory declaring when that shutoff date will be, who requested the objectionable, and why.
See, when the strong and capable stand resolute, the weak and following have a tendency to bolster and stand. Absent the strongest, the rest all scatter reliably.
If we want a public square without government—we each have to pay monthly or quarterly. The money the government uses as bribes for censorship on Twitter WE pay for anyway! Where does government get its money? Duh. From we the people!
We are the only ones who work. Government uses the money we give them to fund themselves, spy on us, and fund wars in other countries.
Very true words! If we are slaves…..are we too due reparations?
Honestly they don’t care about the money we give them. Ugh I say that but it’s a loaded concept. They only care about taxes to satisfy an illusion. The illusion is that taxes make the government work.
Truth is they don’t really need the money. It’s about keeping their system afloat but not because the books are balanced. Really has very little to do with that. Instead it’s to make us assume the system is sound.
Truth of the matter is it’s just a confidence game. As long as the pretending is sufficient and the populace buys in the movie script works.
EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING they do is based upon keeping that system afloat.
Anything you see come from media or government understand that is the ONLY purpose!
Not anymore. Now they just make more money and get the 5 largest banks to invest it in the economy, so the banks do what comes natural. They head to Wall Street and buy shareholdings with the Governments Monopoly money. Then we get inflation, stagnation, and recession. It is easy if you are the only entity that can increase the supply of money. We the People pay more taxes because everything we buy costs more and gets more taxes applied to it. Then We the People pay higher income taxes because our paychecks get larger and our real wages go up in number but down in value. The net result? You have to have a business that has its own cloud to store all the damned data and your costs go up faster than your income if you don’t. Sundance had Twitter pegged years ago.
If Elon Musk decides to use billions more of his own money to operate his own cloud, he can get around the problem. Musk is already about 50 billion into this deal and the red numbers are piling up faster than the black numbers. Good old fashioned businesses can control their operating costs, but Twitter is an escalator that you can’t jump off of. Increased income is always going to come with with higher data storage costs. What we have here is a failed business model and Musk now knows it.
so, simply.
don’t use the gov’t run twitter.
or if you do, flood it with disinfo.
Fortunately, have never been on the trash. Certainly not as a registered user. Same with Fakebook and all the rest. Other than here at the CTH, my online profile has been under a phony name and an false email address I made up 15 years ago for discus
You are very wise.
Only the former “option” actually works. Alas, most Americans, including far too many who say they are “patriots, have shown, especially in this century, they simply cannot do without their various “pleasures” even when they involve supporting our mortal enemies (yes, Musk is just another big tech oligarch out for himself) as well as being perverted by swimming in the sewer that the late Maja Rushie so aptly called twitter.
Whenever I encounter someone in person or online who is a twit, almost every time, I notice they can hardly put together a sentence without the F bomb or some other filth.
Do you think that Twitter is the only platform our government has control of to control information?
We know that our corrupt government is partners with most of the social media platforms, is part owners of most of the companies that provide VPNs, encryptions and operates the dark web.
We know it controls most of the narratives allowed in the media.
They have access to your banking records, spending habits, travel records etc.
It would be wise to understand that big brother is EVERYWHERE!
Not just Twitter.
EVERYONE needs to get off of Twitter and Facebook.
Amen. I am on no anti-social media due to being in law enforcement and just not at all interested in gossip since as a born again Christian that is no less a sin than murder.
In my job I run background checks on applicants and increasingly many are rejected due to their online “presence.”
Those who say that something posted online is there forever are actually very accurate.
Too bad most Americans seem unable to “just say no” to much of anything the enemies of freedom gladly provide.
Musk has never hid who he truly was.. he’s dependent on China and his hands are all over Sequoia capital- I doubt this was even his idea- the cabal needed MAGA back – EM job was to lure us in w false hope throwing out little bits of information on stuff MAGA already knew- Musk never scorched Fauci as promised and now he has completed his mission w the Cabal, CCP.. bring in censorship just in time for the 2024 elections. This was always the plan.
He probably even got a bonus from the government for reinstating people they lost but realized they needed to spy on.
yes he has hid many things
He is also morally and spiritually bankrupt.
So that purchase, the drama around that decision, the ensuing furor over content. That was all for show.
Well.
Welcome to act III.
…including the engagement (not yet married as a given) of musk and carlson.
I wonder which one is the bride?
It was rather apparent to many of us if you study Musk’s reprobate lifestyle and his continual scamming of us by making his fortune largely on the backs of taxpayers who are subsidizing his various money-losing ventures like “save-the-planet” luxury EVs.
It’s always the golden watch.
Too bad…there are lots of problems with this country that need to be discussed, but apparently one poke to Musk and down it goes.
Left-wing uniparty: “we chop off both your arms”
Right-wing uniparty: “we chop off one arm”
MAGA: “how about chop off no arms?”
Musk: “has your brain fallen out, I am the magnanimous centrist and declare Ron! my prophet, chop off one arm as reasonable compromise”
I’m completely unbothered by this. I don’t really care what happens in some third world hellhole. They have a different culture, they have a different expectation of criticism of government. I’ve never been one who thinks the United States should waste our time spreading “democracy” to other cultures. I see it as complete waste of our time and our resources. I don’t expect Elon Musk to do the job of the state department. I don’t expect him to take every tin pot dictator to the mat. Is Twitter perfect? Of course not. Is it better than it was. Seems to be. There’s no better source of information on the face of the Earth. Is Elon the right guy for the job? Can’t think of anybody who would be better.
Do I wish the people in Turkey had a fairer political system? Of course. But that’s up to them. Are they better off having an imperfect Twitter as opposed to nothing? I think they probably are
They use other countries to debug their programs before they bring it here.
When Google created project dragonfly for China to track, monitor, and control what their people can do and what they say.
Some folks thought that was bad for the Chinese people.
It was just China being China and because of our constitution it would never be allowed to happen in America.
Now our corrupt, lawless
government uses the same technology to control Americans.
It is possible for multiple things to be true in parallel
Do I believe Sundance is correct in his perspective?
True
Turkey is better served by Musk blocking some content to prevent Turkey from restricting or blocking it altogether?
Also True
Would Musk allowing All Turkish election tweets to be unrestricted until Turkey shut Twitter down
ACTUALLY change Turkeys election or culture?. . .
😐 . . . No
And
Neither do ANY of my contacts in Turkey
“It is possible for multiple things to be true in parallel” I agree with you completely, Chris.
Gab manages to operate at scale on hardware they own and control. I don’t know what their simultaneous user count is, but they have 20 million user accounts.
As for Twitter, I haven’t ever taken what Elon says seriously, as it is what he does that matters, and Twitter never stopped banning dissident right wing voices. Twitter was never going to be a bastion of free speech, I don’t care what Elon says.
Musk is not a good guy. I’ve long suspected it.
Musk us a corporate welfare bum. Not to be trusted.
The more things change the more they remain the same. Elon is basically a gubermint employee. He is govt. subsidized in his entire empire. I do not think he is a stable person. Twitter X will be a disaster. I hope I’m wrong.
Anybody that wants to put a chip in your brain cannot be trusted, for my two cents they should start putting a chip on Elon musk.
So how does this effect a new partnership between Tucker and Elon. Can we trust it?
trust nobody except Trump!
and Sundance.
No , absolutely not . MUSK clearly DOES NOT KNOW WHAT real and fake news is and trusts liberal funded left wing factcheckers .
My trust is only in God!! Amen Amin.
Agree 100%
“The cloud” is a marketing success only; it is shockingly expensive. You pay for storage, traffic in and out, processing power.
Moving large processes, large amounts of data, busy interactions to the cloud costs 3x – 4x (or more) what it costs to buy the hardware and put it in your office.
Also, IIRC Karl Denninger once asserted that anything running in a virtual environment (such as all cloud hosted environments are) can be read by the virtual host, no matter if encrypted.
The hardware is the easy part of a large data center; it’s the professional(?) staff, human nature and Human Relations that are most difficult to deal with.
pretty sure a circuit’s input has to necessarilty be de-crypted before an input can cause a programed output. otherwise, the chip instructons would ultimatly be unknowable. Quantum encrypted AI , anyone?
Who does Erdogan think he is anyway?
Biden?
Zelinsky?
I have a question; just who or where do these oppositional parties arise from? Seems to me most of them are formulations of US NGOs and Samantha Power Types. However I have no clue about this in particular.
As for Musk…the jury is still out on him IMO. We shall see.
We have a winner.
Thank you sir…..!!!!…..this guy is a great great writer. I read a lot and one of the finest I have found. He does the war (Ukraine & Russia) blog and Dark Futura which contains information like below.
We must resist temptations that have been manipulated in our minds. WE (TREEPERS) have evolved and there’s no excuse anymore to NOT understand what is happening.
https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/truth-about-carbon-sequestration
Want to live your best life? Put your phones down and step away from the social media platforms folks.
The Conservative Treehouse is a social media site IMHO.
Touché!
More of a sanity medium.
It all depends how how terms are defined.
I think most who believe “anti-social media” is a weapon used by the enemies of freedom, would define it as those platforms that are predominately gossip or providing the needy with their own soapboxes for trying to be “somebody”—whether a twit with a gazillion followers, some inane “influencer” on FB or some exhibitionist teen showing their body parts on Tiktok.
Sites like the CTH where thoughtful essays and analysis of current events are posted to which readers comment (supposedly subject to the rules CTH puts out periodically to keep it from devolving into anti-social media) is hardly a mere gossip site.
“As it is currently structured, including the AWS cloud-based services for data processing, the costs associated with handling 30 million active simultaneous users (24/7) exceeds the business model for self-sufficiency. It simply costs too much without ownership of the metal.”
How does Truth Social manage to operate?
Can it never get any bigger (more users) ?
What was the pre-Musk ad revenue for Twitter?
How many folks are signed in to Twitter at one time ? (including bots)
Start the calculations there.
I guess Erdogan figured if our government agencies could control the opposition’s political content on Twitter in the US elections, he could do the same without being criticized!
Well, that was very Democratic of him.
Maybe somebody should ask Elon would he do the same if Putin or Xi asked for the same thing that Turkey did?
QUESTION OF THE DAY !!!
“Nothing changes espoused opinion faster than money, just ask Steve Cortes”. I’m glad we got to see who Cortes really was. He’ll never be believed again after that move. I compare it right up there with Hunter Biden sliding in with his brother Beau’s widow. I call it Low Life!!! You earn those stripes, have fun wearing them…
The opposition to Erdogan is the US government. No outside interference. Haven’t you seen the people in the streets in support of him?
Something for everyone that partakes in social media http://www.gab.com Christian based. Check it out oh and best part, not owned by a fickle billionaire.
MUSK is not who we thought he was , that has been made very very clear.
You don’t speak for me because he’s exactly who I thought he was!
All psyop.
All keeping the masses distracted from the tectonic shifts underway to put the US western alliance down as part of raising up the eurasian hegemon anchored by the red dragon.
While stimulating responses from the masses to add to their granular surveillance profiles, courtesy of AI analytics and fused inputs from the multitude of sensors everywhere, including the microphone in every hand and pocket.
Look! Another laser pointer dot bouncing around on the floor to chase!
This is similar to when Google and Yahoo were approached by the Chinese government and told they needed to allow access for the Chinese government to see who of their citizens was looking up what. Yahoo refused and was booted out of China as a result while Google said sure we can do that. In fact lets write some code to make it really easy for you.
But those who have no principles will never understand those who take a stand for them. Musk is a government tool who has sucked at the government teat his entire career.
IOW, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
So Jack sold Musk Twitter and threw the government in for free.
Jack had to have discussed this before he sold it to Musk. Musk had to have bought it knowing that it came with the government attached.
Musk is part of the WEF. This all comes as no surprise.
What can we all do to make Truth Social the “go to place” for free speech and truth? Let’s figure this out and make twitter a leftist echo chamber and truth social the place where we can find the “truth.”
Bingo. Musk’s con was to kneecap Truth Social out of the gate, at a pivotal point on its growth trajectory. Stop flight out to a true free speech alternative by dangling the bait of free speech out there for those users thinking about leaving controlled social media to join uncontrolled social media. It. Worked. Just like the battered wife says she’s going to leave her abusive husband, then he brings home roses and takes her out to a nice dinner. Only to beat her again when the immediate threat of her leaving passes.
exactly
The threat is to all of Musk’s empire. SpaceX is extremely vulnerable to government throttling. Tesla is vulnerable to government investigation and litigation. Musk can’t just shut down Twitter he must comply.
A zebra doesn’t change his stripes.
Too many red flags with Musk from the get go. It was just a matter of time that he would be reigned in. Money has a way of doing that.
I would like to expound on the area of this updated post where SD/CTH addresses Amazon Web Service (AWS) affiliation with Twitter. For brevity’s sake, I’m just gonna stick to what might appear to be trivial facts, but are the most relevant:
AWS’ largest data processing center cluster is in Northern Virginia. So is Langley (?);
2013 – HHS awards Authority To Operate. What agencies fall under HHS? CDC, NIH, FDA to name a few (bio weapons)
2013 – CIA awards $600M contract. For what? Who knows! What benefit could CIA obtain from this ‘contract’? Back door access to surveil all communications directly going thru this service without having to have ‘portals’ at companies like Twitter; don’t have to rely on or inform NSA; operational control over censorship/PSYOPS and legal targeting thru their ‘sister’ agency that works for Main Justice (my, isn’t this convenient?);
2014 – DOD ‘approval’ for …. Who knows?
Other known major intel agency customers: MI5, MI6, UK DoD, GCHQ
Where have we seen CIA, FBI and these particular UK agencies coordinate in 2015-2017+ and on whom????
Strange events concerning AWS:
2/28/17 – major outage for hours (no ‘reported’ data lost) – What was occurring with Trump just prior to this date & what was Trump attempting to expose at this juncture? You will have to do your own research!
11/25/20 – another major outage. What was occurring regarding election results and what was being attempted to remedy? You will have to do your own research!
‘A riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped into an enigma.’
Getting a clue yet?
Happy hunting & connect the dots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I suspect that Musk knew what he was buying. It’s called bargaining leverage. It works both ways.
Every single one of Musk’s enterprises is deeply entwined with and in one way or another both supports and is supported by multiple governments. Starlink. Tesla. Space X. Neuralink. Open AI. Solar City. The Boring Company. HyperLoop. And now Twitter. Musk has big geeky futuristic plans. For Twitter nka X Corp., his everything platform.
This is not a person who cares about any particular country. This is not a person who cares about any nation’s founding ideology. Or religion. He’s not even “globalist”. I would describe him as futuristic, almost bringing scifi fantasies to life. Your concerns are mundane. Look for a clue in his personal life. Primitive rules and traditions Do Not Apply. Elon Musk is having a ball and he’s not operating in the same plane as everyone else.
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It’s a really close election. No wonder Erdogan wanted Elon to censure his opponent (who is slightly ahead).
Elon shutting down free speech is shameful.
****
Turkey votes in pivotal elections that could end Erdogan’s 20-year rule
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-votes-pivotal-elections-that-could-end-erdogans-20-year-rule-2023-05-13/?taid=64603ae69038670001a02173&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Elon, if you happen to read this– you shut down Turkish access in its totality. This levels the playing field. Ah, but money, money, money. What’s the matter? Would losing Turkey mean the death of Twitter? If so, then good riddance.
Elon Musk is going to be in big trouble with John Bolton & Hillary Clinton, as those were probably their tweets. YIKES !!!
Bolton & Neocons target Turkey & Erdogan for regime change
Gen. Michael Flynn’s Turkish lobbying client complained about Trump’s stance during campaign
“The memos indicate that part of the work done through the project included investigating alleged financial ties between Gulen’s schools and supporters and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.”
“Those points made it into an op-ed piece Flynn published on the day of the 2016 election. The article included a video of President Bill Clinton calling Gulen a “friend” and noting that a foundation backing pro-Gulen charter schools in the U.S. has also made donations to the Clinton Foundation.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/michael-flynn-turkey-lobbying-1349054
NYT: Turks Can Agree on One Thing: U.S. Was Behind Failed Coup
“When another pro-government newspaper asked Turks in a recent poll conducted on Twitter which part of the United States government had supported the coup plotters, the C.I.A. came in first, with 69 percent, and the White House was a distant second, with 20 percent. These conspiracy theories are not the product of a few cranks on the fringes of Turkish society. “
https://archive.fo/LD06a#selection-399.0-407.97
Elon Musk is going to end up like Gen. Michael Flynn, appearing before Judge Sullivan one of these days. Not a wise move to be blocking Tweets meant to “fortify” Turkey’s election and funded by John Bolton, The Clinton Foundation, the US State Dept. , NED, etc. … who are trying to bring REAL democracy to Turkey.
I’m a bit surprised how quickly folks seem to be abandoning Elon. I spent a lot of time forming my opinion of him and there’s no way a couple poorly explained data points will flip that rock.
My take is Elon needs to spend more time with Tesla, just as he said. From what I’ve seen her background is a horror-show. I surmise Elon has her assurances that his commitment to free speech will be maintained. Obviously he’s vetted her beyond what we’ve seen over the last couple days. She will do the day-to-day management while he steps in as needed. That may not be done publicly at first but I have no doubt Elon will simply Tweet his displeasure if she strays far.
A big part of this choice is to blunt criticism from the Regime. Plus the head fake buys time for the long game. Can you imagine the thermonuclear blowback if he chose a Matt Taibbi or a Peter Thiel?
Critically he still controls the tech end of Twitter so he’s in position to detect intrusions by ICs.
This is absolutely not a simple surrender to Woke. Don’t rend your garments just yet.
We know the difference between yellow rain and pee.
“… a couple poorly explained data points…”. I’m sorry, were you reading the same CTH post that the rest of us were reading?
Abandoning Elon? Several of us on this site were never on board. A lot, if not most, were at least skeptical. Hopeful maybe, but mostly skeptical.
What is so obvious about Elon’s vetting? Pray tell!
And what make YOU so sure about how they will SPECIFICALLY operate? Do you have some specific knowledge to share and ‘where’ it originated?
I bet this will blunt criticism from the ‘Regime.’ And, I wholeheartedly agree that this a head fake to buy time for the ‘long game.’ I think I might have brought that up earlier tonight.
What in the world would ever qualify Thiel or Taibbi to be a CEO of a major company? Who has even brought that choice of characters up?
Detect intrusions? You don’t think he’s known all along, or certainly since the Twitter files were released?They’re going on now and have been the whole time – surveillance and he knows it.
And you’re right, it’s not a ‘simple surrender’ and it sure as hell was not to woke. It’s pretty clear as stated in this poster , it is an economic surrender!
Tell us, are you paid influencer? If not, you should apply. You would be good at it! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
No more guessing then, is he or isn’t he…
Now we know.
And that, as is said, is that.
Turkey’s “Democracy” sounds about like ours.
That is the problem in the age of George Soros’ “Open Societies” and Color Revolutions. If the US were a true sponsor of democracy it would scrupulously stay out of democracy promotion in other countries and let their population’s decide. But in cases where the populations do decide, for example in Hungary, those are branded as “Illiberal Democracies” and dis-invited from “Democracy Summits”. Ironically, when you know all of this behind the scenes stuff is going on the with the US Deep State and US tech company’s what country in the world would allow an open and free internet? They are just exploited by oligarchic actors. So, in the end what George Soros will get is a world of “Closed Societies” and more authoritarian regimes as simply a means of protection against what befell the United States in the 2020 elections.
And Tucker Carlson just signed up for this mess?
Money? Are we talking about money? Serious money? Like the largest national and multinational corporate money? Like the top-dollar in the nation for a lawyer money? More expensive lawyers than found in DC and NY? Own the courts money?
https://corplaw.delaware.gov/why-businesses-choose-delaware/
Shield everything involving big, serious money from public disclosure?
https://thehustle.co/why-delaware-is-the-sexiest-place-in-america-to-incorporate-a-company/
The big, serious money behind Biden for a half-century, fifty years?
https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2022/06/delaware-is-everywhere-how-a-little-known-tax-haven-made-the-rules-for-corporate-america/
The same big, serious money behind Marxist BLM?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/07/20/woke_corporate_support_of_blm_has_deadly_consequences_147919.html
Money. Always comes down to money. It’s why it’s best to always follow the money to find true intentions.
Boo Hoo
He could have just let Twit die as it should have and saved himself the stress, the $ of his investors, some same as before ie corrupt govt, and any spare change he put in
But he didn’t. Why? He’s fronting w his bad whiny acting, pretending he’s just trying to keep the lights on. Boo Hoo. Govt expects to continue taking care of that, so the crybaby act is a big lie.
His goal continues to be keeping his globalist cronies in the money, this time by making sure Turkish national policy (which drives economic policy, which drives global policy) goes their way.
The worst prison is the one with the unlocked door , the one you choose to stay in.
Freedom, like truth, has no agenda.
regardless of money dangled in front of one
one should have ethics and honor
obviously, Elon Musk has neither of the two
my rule of thumb is
unless someone is 100% honest and forthcoming
beware of the trojan horse
Elon’s response to Yglesias is not convincing. If all an authoritarian government will allow is the sharing of cookie recipes, then what does it matter if Twitter is available or not? If Twitter were to be removed entirely, even government propaganda would lose a broadcast avenue. That wouldn’t stop the opposition’s viewpoint from being broadcast to the rest of the world, only to Turkish citizens.
A person can always find a ‘reasonable’ excuse to do the wrong thing. But once your ‘reasonableness’ is exposed, don’t shed crocodile tears if other authoritarians, including in the U.S., are equally as compelling.
Elon, your slip is showing…
CCP has their claws deeply embedded in Elon, the largest Tesla facility is in Shang Hai and he rakes in tons of cash from them!!! He is being forced back onto the ranch and is a false profit, such a shame!!! RIP Twitter, it was fun while it lasted!!! 🤔
I know longer blame the CCP or Russia (left does) for our woes. You know I wonder if both political parties use them as a distraction? Maybe there is even another explanation??? …………who knows?????
Idk…something to think about perhaps.
I share Sundance’s scepticism about Musk, but in this case, he’s completely mistaken and actually siding with globalist shills like Yglesias. You don’t have to like Erdogan, but he is Turkey First in the same way Trump is America First.
Yes! They play the boogeyman for us just like we do for them. It is about controlling the people. The bankers are in control in all countries except the ones in the middle east that we constantly demonize and attack. Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, etc. The war on terror is the perfect way for the bankers that control governments to get nonstop war against their enemies, not ours. How much gold was taken from Libya because Gaddhafi was going to issue his own currency backed by gold. They sure made an example out of him in typical bolshevik fashion.
What’s that old saying? If you plant your apple trees in someone else’s orchard, don’t be surprised if you someday have to pay for your own apples…
Canadians, as myself, are/will be hugely disappointed in Elon’s decision to hire this Board Member of the WEF, expected will take place 6 weeks from 11 May 2023. I will be unsubscribing from Twitter shortly.
Never got on Twitter, was blocked from the get-go because I mentioned I was conservative. That was several years back. Now I am glad of that. No loss.
Definitely no loss.
Ditto!
Linda Yaccarino bio on TechEconomy.ng, May 12, 2023: “Yaccarino is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Media, Entertainment and Culture. She’s also a member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees.”
The article says she’s a vocal supporter of DEI, or imo, Division, Enmity and Intrusion.
Supporter? Actually I think the term is “pioneer” in regards to NBC.
“Data processing for 30 million simultaneously active users engaging with the platform is extremely expensive. Every engagement feature makes this issue worse.”
Don’t unsubscribe. If you want to throw sand into the machine, then it seems the thing to do is stay on Twitter 24 hours a day 8 days a week. Kind of like mailing in 100 ballots for your candidate, only it’s totally legal in this case.
I was tempted, but never joined Twitter.
Now that Yacc, a WEF cultist, is on Twitter, Musk has deliberately or inadvertently told his new following to mange la merde.