Alex Jones did not warrant the scale of deplatforming and censorship that he received. In the free market, independent people can choose not to engage with, tune out or block anyone they find is not in alignment with their value system.
In the era of defined information (dis, mis and mal), a slippery slope is created where information itself is suppressed, and ultimately this erodes the principle of speech. Just because information, even significantly contrary information, is provided, that does not mean anyone is required to believe it. As I have previously shared, when we allow definitions imposed by others to define and ultimately control information, we become subjects to the censors. The decision to permit Jones to return to Twitter was the correct decision.
All of that said, the action taken by Musk will likely only worsen the revenue side of the X/Twitter financial situation. With staunch opposition groups now using the reinstatement of Alex Jones as a targeting arrow in their quiver, and with approximately $1.5 billion in annual debt service, even 10 million paid subscribers ($8/mo) cannot offset the scale of revenue drop from a lack of advertisers.
It remains to be seen how X/Twitter can remain viable in the longer term with $12.5 billion in debt.
I caution readers to stay unemotional in/around the intentions of Elon Musk as it pertains to the operation of what I believe Twitter to be. As CTH has long documented, Twitter was essentially a DHS controlled/influenced intelligence operation with the intent to control/influence public opinion.
You can make an argument that Twitter is being guided into a controlled crash. If that were the operational intent, nothing currently being done would be done differently.
Actually, a controlled crash is exactly what popped into my head, simply because it reminds me of our government bleeding out our finances to destroy us. Musk is well aware of what sort of information doesn’t sit well with our government. I personally don’t get good vibes from Musk, never have. So you have to ask, why would he be doing this? I wonder if he is not working to take down his own company. But then that leads to yet another question that starts with the word ‘why’.
Elon isn’t dumb. I think he a) knows the Deep State will not allow Twitter/X to fail. They’ll have to step in and save it somehow. And b) now that he has no hope of preventing the collapse, he gone full wolverine. No F’s are given, if he’s going out he going to go out in style.
“Big corporations cannot be trusted to regulate content at a global scale – the collapse of X / Twitter is proof. Internet ID for all!”
I wish people would stop trying to out guess or second guess Elon and/or Donald Trump. They didn’t where they are by being stupid.
Yes, a lot of the so – called ‘sage’ men pundits are out in droves telling Elon what they have gone through, when he has no need for that no interest. He knows exactly what to do and what is happening to him, not an amateur guys. Just today Elon has put out proof, that the anti-semite Gay of Harvard, Plagiarized for her thesis for Ph.d.
That is an apples to oranges comparison. Musk got where he is on the coat tails of the government largess (aka taxpayers), Trump got where he is by hard work and perseverance.
When one looks at the businesses that Musk is in: Tesla – what government would allow and fund an independent battery run devices company (cars, but ultimately military robots and other military items); 2) SpaceX – what government military would let (and fund) an independent company send up satellites that can be an “off the charts” military advantage (satelite based communication). NO COUNTRY WOULD. Thus, Musk at X and the controlled crash is a military operation in my opinion. With a faction of our military behind the Covid bioweapon program….one can only wonder what is our military’s intentions with X. It was run essentially by Intel agencies before Musk…now it probably is being run by Defense intelligence. Who is on what side of Americans and humanity is the big question mark around Twitter/X. Not convinced Musk wears a white hat yet though have liked many of his actions in bringing back the first amendment online.
The Feds need X to track us. Elon figured that out and is using that nugget and is leveraging that for his other businesses… I like Elon and own his stock, don’t be a hater on Elon.
It isn’t a love/hate issue with me regarding Elon, it is a trust issue.
The 4 pillars of civilization are under attack:
https://www.profstonge.com/p/four-pillars-of-civilization-under?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Scarlett, for more along these lines read “The Law” by Claude-Frederic Bastiat (early 19th Century French economist). It’s a short read but eye-opening, to say the least. [ http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html ] Excerpts:
“Life, liberty, property, three gifts from God, precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
“Law is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense. Each of us has a natural right – from God – to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. The preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. If every person has the right to defend his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. The principle of collective right – its reason for existing, its lawfulness – is based on individual right.”
“The common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: it has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right (taxation), in order to protect plunder. It has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense. The law has been perverted by the influence of stupid greed and false philanthropy.”
Re “It remains to be seen how X/Twitter can remain viable in the longer term with $12.5 billion in debt.”
and, re “You can make an argument that Twitter is being guided into a controlled crash. If that were the operational intent, nothing currently being done would be done differently.”
That argument can certainly be made. An argument can also be made that everything that has happened concerning Twitter/X from Musk’s takeover to the present has been a ruse to cause conservatives to continue or start back using the government’s citizen spy machine. That would include pretending Musk would clean up that venue AND that it is now about to fold from his trying but failing to do so. In my opinion, few regular citizens (read, non-Treepers) will ever know that when some ‘miracle’ occurs keeping T/X afloat, it will still be the fed’s control making that possible.
If T/X does eventually become defunct, it will be because the feds are at least agreeable with that outcome or; more likely, initiated by the feds because they now have a better and/or less visible way to do their spying.
The Deep State is moving on from T/X since the ruse is up, and they have something else to spy on us with. I think you are correct. The
Yeah, there’s that. I wonder if the 702 extension, along with their proven ability to abuse it without consequence, makes T/X less valuable to them as a spy machine. T/X has proven it’s worth, to the DS, just for it’s ability to manipulate color revolutions. They get a two-for in that regards with T/X. So even if they don’t need it for spying anymore, what’s their game plan for fomenting revolutions?
No, they are not. I have a random assortment of fed bots or AI bots that follow my posts.
No question about it. Sometimes they post a like before you even press send on your comment.
(You need to think a little bit on how they could do that)
You can spot them in a second.
I guess, then, it will be up to our “representatives” to stop funding the agencies that are “investing” tax dollars in running Twitter.
My local TV media all claimed Musk took the results of an “unscientific” poll. Meaning: he failed to properly oversample hardcore hateful EXTREME leftists
Hey, the leftbots are freely roaming on that platform. They are just meeting their match with conservatives now. Just look at Julie Kelly’s tweets…they target her.
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding
https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after-cia
Yeh then there’s this.☝️
Unlike President Trump, Alex Jones came right back up and started posting.
Has anyone else had problems with Rumble the last two days? Maybe there is just a simple outage but I can’t help being suspicious.
The CEO posted on TwiXter that they have been under attack this weekend and today. NGOs and Pallywood.
The Tucker interview with Alex Jones is outstanding…
Quite simple; underwritten by the Government. Doing a better job of hiding it this time though. Why would we believe the Musk is standing up to the Gov’t when his fortune is completely reliant 24/7 on one government entity or another.
All he’s done is add his expertise to the process of manipulation.
Seen any real change? Think so? How can you be sure when the person reassuring you of what the facts are has no reason to risk a dime for you or the country.
“even 10 million paid subscribers ($8/mo) cannot offset the scale of revenue drop from a lack of advertisers.” Sundance, that seems a small number to me… what if it somehow became 10 times that?
The advertising model of social media won’t exist in five years.
There can only be one voice, and no one else may speak. Truth be dammed if it does not align with the one voice.