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Hooray Twitter is being destroyed! As a non-user this story doesn’t really affect me in the slightest, and I have no political dog in either side of the fight. [Update: The Daily Beagle now uses Twitter to get better insights on the Elon Musk experience, however at time of publication it wasn’t.]
That said, be careful of falling into the trap of ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’. Elon Musk is there to dismantle Twitter, but not for the reasons you think. But before we continue, lets cover reasons why you shouldn’t get on the Elon hype train just yet.
Jeffrey Epstein Ties
You’ve probably seen this image of Elon and child trafficker Ghislane Maxwell doing the rounds. Elon’s defence is that she had photobombed his image, but why is he leaning away if he doesn’t know anyone is there?
You could maybe stretch this to a ‘chance encounter’, except this isn’t the first time Elon has rubbed shoulders within the circles of Jeffrey Epstein. Prior to his murder (for he was killed), Jeffrey Epstein made acquaintances with Kimbal Musk, doing what the pedo child trafficker did best - introducing females to men.
Epstein had done it to get close to Elon. Now you could reasonably argue Kimbal is not Elon, however in August 2018, prior to his murder, Epstein claimed he gave advice to Elon, and newspapers had declared after Epstein helped Kimbal, that Elon had given Epstein a tour of SpaceX. Elon denies this. For his part, Elon did ask why the DoJ had not leaked the client list of Ghislane Maxwell, so it is difficult to read this situation.
That said, there’s no secret SpaceX has close ties to the US military. In 2013, the US government lifted the ban on domestic propaganda - that is, propaganda aimed at their own citizens. The US military makes no secret of their psychological operations, and prior to Elon’s purchase, back in September 2022, the Pentagon ordered a review into US military psychological operations on social media.
There’s no secret of Elon Musk aiding Ukraine’s military - and thus the objectives of the US military - with Starlink, with Musk explicitly asking the Department of Defense for funding.
He’s also close to the former founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who retained his stake in Twitter post-Musk; didn’t he also engage in rampant censorship?
Then there’s the 15 monkeys he killed doing arguably unnecessary brain-microchip implants involving “extreme suffering”. Yes, because what society needs right now is more transhumanism animal abuse, not less. Paging Dr Fauci, your microchip brain embedded flea torture dogs are ready.
Elon was previously reported to have said humans need to merge with machines (read: become inhuman cyborgs) or the AI he’s literally researching will kill us all. Supposedly. Save for a solar flare, I guess?
I’m sure someone will invoke the ‘what about the disabled people?’ argument like Bill Gates invokes the ‘what about the starving African children?’ any time he dares mention GMOs with their cancer. We have devices that can read brain patterns externally without the need for an embedded, cancer-causing microchip.
So why buy out Twitter? Is it really a sudden change of heart and free speech? Well… not really.
Clean Up Crew Clues
Have you ever seen a film where you see a group of bad guys kill a bunch of people, and then they phone in some specialists who are the ‘clean up crew’? They turn up with bleach, body bags, a slew of false evidence to contaminate the crime scene with and more.
Usually, they’re there to make stuff disappear, set fire to some other stuff and rapidly move to clean a place out before the police or law enforcement turn up.
Back in July 13th, before any mainstream outlet, The Daily Beagle reported on an explosive legal case that was threatening to expose the collusion between the US government and Twitter.
We’re talking massive lawsuits, coupled with slam dunk evidence of governments suppressing free speech online (contrary to all the ‘private business’ arguments). In the article, I remarked how Twitter could not just delete evidence because:
their employees will be subpeona’d to testify, and if there are any narrative inconsistencies between US government’s documents and that of the employees (who don’t have deep legal pockets), for example, an employee references documents US government did not turn over, the judge is very likely to rule against the US government for their deception.
But what happens if some third party outsider turns up, rapidly fires all of the employees (especially the senior ones) with foreknowledge of the crimes, and then starts rapidly scrubbing the software and changing things whilst this is ongoing? Smells like evidence tampering to me.
Indeed, it seems Elon could not move fast enough to suppress the dissenting views at Twitter, because one employee leaked documents showing evidence the Department of Homeland Security, Twitter, Facebook and other companies colluded to censor people’s views.
In-fact, Elon’s timing mysteriously coincides with Kanye West’s buyout of Parler - another incognito censorship social media outlet. Am I supposed to believe after all these years, online celebrities suddenly had a change of heart and all want to liberate speech on the internet? All at the same time? Right as we, the public, were about to expose mass US government censorship?
Indeed, giving the senior executives cover to flee the now exposed, sinking ship, Elon has fired 4 executives, plus thousands more employees. All of these are eyewitnesses to the collusion. All of them criminally liable and civilly culpable. And Elon is giving them the perfect excuse to act like they no longer have an association with Twitter, thus no longer under risk of subpeona.
Fall Guy? Not Really
Interestingly, he claims to have known about the bot issue at Twitter, but still ponied up much more than it is worth. Remember, Elon gets his money from the US government - so it is, in effect, the US government ‘buying out’ another portion of the US government, to give the US government the flimsy cover it needs to act like it doesn’t pressure social media.
If anything goes wrong ‘whoops, silly Elon, he accidentally on purpose broke it’. If Twitter ‘accidentally on purpose’ broke it, it would raise eyebrows. Who better to crash a thing than the man who invented the so-called misleading “auto-pilot” that prefers to crash into things.
Twitter isn’t the only one being scrubbed. Facebook has mysteriously started tanking recently as well, with Facebook connected Meta somehow losing $700 billion in the space of a week. Does that make sense to anybody? If it was overinflated, how did it get that overinflated it is over half a trillion? Fraud? Meta has been around for months, and Facebook years, why now? Methinks the rats are abandoning ship before the lawsuit arrives to expose the fraudulent in-bed nature between US gov and social media.
Elon’s True Purpose
When Elon says he’s there to make Twitter lawful, he isn’t kidding. But he doesn’t mean in the sense of ‘righteous lawful’. What he means is in the sense of clean-up crew lawful, the bare minimum to pass scrutiny by a crooked judge and an onlooking audience. Look everybody, Twitter is suddenly redeemed, no need to sue the US government and expose anything now, right?
He’s there to sever the ties to the violations against First Amendment by the US government pronto, so when the lawsuit against Twitter reaches maturity the judge will go ‘oh well, they’re not doing it any more’ and drop the suit.
What the US government is truly terrified of is the extent of their censorship network will become truly known to the wider public on how much they control online social media.
Elon Musk - the US military contractor - is there to mop up after the US government and quickly close shop. Old code will be rapidly trashed, new code that wipes crucial evidence brought in. I’m sure he’ll plead ignorance even though as CEO he’s supposed to be aware of all legal cases against the company. Including orders to preserve evidence.
The US government has two options now, they can either torch the place and close down Twitter for good with no replacement, or they can datamine and track people’s habits to find all the domestic terrorist parents they hate. It looks like they’re aiming for the latter in an attempt to suppress the growth of alternatives like Gab.
Elon Musk Isn’t Really A Free Speech Absolutist
Remember, Elon doesn’t want true free speech per the First Amendment, as he has set up a “moderation council” and claimed that he didn’t want the site to become…
[…] a free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said with no consequences […]
I forgot what part of the First Amendment said ‘thusly one must set up thine own moderation council’. Perhaps it is buried somewhere in the Fourth or Fifth amendments? Maybe a letter by Benjamin Franklin? Buried Supreme Court case somewhere?
To me this just sounds like censorship with a different paint covering. He can’t refute the arguments or points being made, so he instead uses a vivid, emotional descriptor of free speech being a “free-for-all hellscape where anything can be said” in the hopes you’ll be like ‘yeah, I hate hellscape speech’. No-one ever censors nice speech; free speech is all about the speech people find a ‘hellscape’.
Ah, yes, hellscape. Exactly what I’d describe monkeys with embedded brain microchips stuck in cars that try to run over motorcyclists because it doesn’t recognise them as human. The irony of a man who wishes to censor verbal Nazis whilst he aids actual Nazis who kill people in Ukraine. Here’s a list of others. He aids the war machine but condemns ‘violent’ speech. Hellscape indeed. Hypocrite.
Yes Elon, that is the definition of free speech - where anything can be said. If you don’t like the idea of people saying ‘anything’ then you’re not a free speech advocate, you’re a fraud aiding violent groups. Did anyone tell you about Azov burning 50 protestors to death pre-war Elon?
Copycat Blues
Elon also intends to charge for the Blue Check verification mark. He seems to have forgotten to credit the idea’s origins - something social media website Gab already does to reduce bots. I wonder if he got Andrew Torba’s consent before stealing their idea? He also floated the idea of an edit button - something Gab also already has. What next? Block button? Mute button? Payment processor? Perhaps he could just steal everything Gab. Call it ‘NotGab.com’.
“Best” case scenario, Elon makes a not-as-free-as-Gab Gab-lite where it is the centrist version of ‘acceptable speech’ where acceptable isn’t defined and nothing really changes.
Worst case he makes the datamining X app that tracks every single post you make allowing the government to track your history and suppress your speech in the real world lest you become a parent (AKA domestic terrorist). I wonder if it comes complete with financial CDBC and in-car Tesla tracking following your movements in real-time? Mmm, mass surveillance and clean-up crew scrubbing, yum.
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Meta is down because Zuckerberg is spending billions on the metaverse with no idea of any future profits.
Think you're spot on with this. No I didn't get taken in by the free speech hype, however couldn't quite put it together till now.
This is genius..thanks