I completely agree with you, Raheem. I like Elon so far. But too much power for any one person is always a danger, but also, considering the times we are living in, and what many of us believe that we are in the End of Days, we must be aware that Elon currently appears to be somewhat of a ‘savior to the world’ - which is exactly what the AC will initially appear to be. I hope that’s not the case - because I really like the guy…..I also agree with you about GETTR. It’s my favorite!
Wise words Raheem. We must also keep in mind that oligarchs and commies rely upon censorship to maintain their illegitimate rule, and without it they are toast. Celebrate each victory no matter how tentative.
Let's consider this viewpoint: as far as conservatives and MAGAs are concerned: Twitter could not be brought lower than it now is, no matter what Musk does. The situation can only improve.
We can only hope the "recharge" life of Twitter's batteries will be of greater duration than those of Teslas and iPhones!
The proliferation of alternate speech platforms is a by-product of the destruction of free speech in the originals, Twitter, Facebook, and Google. If Musk can reform Twitter to return to what it once sought to be - a platform dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, likely the upstarts will end up like Sony Betamax after VHS ate its lunch. Remember that - the first war of the platforms?
Hello and thank you for writing down many of my thoughts and concerns so succinctly. Gettr is also my go to, just to keep up with my world. Using Twitter and Facebook are a bore to me. I speak and write in full sentences and not symbols. I'm quite elderly and appreciate using American English. MAGA
Can I just say, we need more Raheem. Miss you on WR, Podcast.... thank you for the substacks. My vocabulary becomes ersatz when I don't hear Raheem's intoxicating verbosity.
Wise words from Mr. Kassam and need to be heeded. While we may have a win in this culture war, the left will not go quietly (as can be seen from their meltdown response and obvious hypocrisy).
As Dan Bongino has often pointed out, we patriots need to establish and support an alternative economy.
The days of 'when they go low, we go high' have long since past. We are in a cultural civil war. Not just for our country, but for the future of our children and generations to come.
Elon is no savior & I disagree with him on many points. I’m not holding my breath… but I certainly will tip my hat to someone willing to invest 20% of their net worth to attempt to create a space for free speech. We’ll see if it actually goes that route.
I agree on the alternatives. I didn’t have Twitter before, and I won’t now. I am happy to see at the very least an attempt in the right direction, but I’m mindful absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My understanding from the offer is there is private equity involved as a significant minority shareholder. Based on private equity rules all these investors are themselves relatively rich and powerful (ie they can afford really really good lawyers). I’ll take Musk at his word on wanting to keep the full 2,000 legally allowed investors. Even the richest man on Earth has limits to the cash he can access, and billions is a motivation not to destroy the company he sold private equity on investing in with him to save it.
More than anything though is the importance of competition. We are living with insanity largely because of consolidation. As the number of public companies continues to decline through unchecked mergers and acquisitions, so to has quality, customer service, consumer choice, and investor choice. The same arguments can be applied to media and speech.
The best way to keep Twitter from going off the deep end again is to ensure the platforms so many fled to remain viable healthy alternatives.
I think Rumble is my favorite aside from Substack, even though I massively prefer to read over watching. I like GETTR and Truth about the same.
In the end, Daily Wire might end up overtaking everyone. It seems the only alternative media to recognize the woke war is being launched against our children, and only Daily Wire has made a serious financial commitment to capturing that giant market. If someone came up with a Discovery/ NatGeo alternative that focused on actual facts and objective reality along with kid’s content the growth would be unstoppable.
I wouldn't put too much into "Musk attended Chinese AI conferences"; he did because they're far ahead of the U.S. and the West in that field, and the all-imporotant race toward AGI/ASI. The assertion by Steve (et al) that "Musk is beholden to China because that's where his money comes from" was never true, he's never relied on Chinese financing, doesn't need it and the structure of the Twitter deal proves that. If Tesla used their equivalent of "Industrial Revenue Bonds" to build a factory IN China, that's just good management; why wouldn't they use local incentives? Missing in the whole analysis is that he wants Twitter's infrastructure to overlay IoT/M2M applications on it, across Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, & for industrial users. 280 Bytes is a useful payload in the SCADA arena. Nobody's noticed that. Cheers, Raheem!
I wonder if these social media platforms are actually obsolete. From My Space to Facebook to Twitter, the were supposedly where family and friends could keep in touch with each other, then they morphed int something different where "influencers" could spew their trendy influenza, and political opinioners could could opine to the great unwashed masses. Now, when TPTB have decided that only politically correct utterances will be tolerated, these platforms have become ugly places of bullying and intolerance. I have never joined any such platforms. I prefer to do my own thinking, and I have always found far better places to learn. I care very little what Elon Musk does with his wealth, though I have to laugh when I hear people on CNN and MSNBC say that billionaires should not be able to buy things like Twitter, conveniently forgetting it is leftist billionaires that have bought most of the media. Lack of self awareness is the order of the times. The much repeated quote of the day: "Free speech is a threat to our democracy." To them I say: Then, shut up!
I completely agree with you, Raheem. I like Elon so far. But too much power for any one person is always a danger, but also, considering the times we are living in, and what many of us believe that we are in the End of Days, we must be aware that Elon currently appears to be somewhat of a ‘savior to the world’ - which is exactly what the AC will initially appear to be. I hope that’s not the case - because I really like the guy…..I also agree with you about GETTR. It’s my favorite!
For years I have said we have to adopt and modify some of the left's tactics to comprehensively defeat them now and for all time..
Folks have said "But then we won't be any better than them."
I said "I'm OK with that."
Wise words Raheem. We must also keep in mind that oligarchs and commies rely upon censorship to maintain their illegitimate rule, and without it they are toast. Celebrate each victory no matter how tentative.
Let's consider this viewpoint: as far as conservatives and MAGAs are concerned: Twitter could not be brought lower than it now is, no matter what Musk does. The situation can only improve.
We can only hope the "recharge" life of Twitter's batteries will be of greater duration than those of Teslas and iPhones!
The proliferation of alternate speech platforms is a by-product of the destruction of free speech in the originals, Twitter, Facebook, and Google. If Musk can reform Twitter to return to what it once sought to be - a platform dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, likely the upstarts will end up like Sony Betamax after VHS ate its lunch. Remember that - the first war of the platforms?
Hello and thank you for writing down many of my thoughts and concerns so succinctly. Gettr is also my go to, just to keep up with my world. Using Twitter and Facebook are a bore to me. I speak and write in full sentences and not symbols. I'm quite elderly and appreciate using American English. MAGA
Can I just say, we need more Raheem. Miss you on WR, Podcast.... thank you for the substacks. My vocabulary becomes ersatz when I don't hear Raheem's intoxicating verbosity.
Wise words from Mr. Kassam and need to be heeded. While we may have a win in this culture war, the left will not go quietly (as can be seen from their meltdown response and obvious hypocrisy).
As Dan Bongino has often pointed out, we patriots need to establish and support an alternative economy.
The days of 'when they go low, we go high' have long since past. We are in a cultural civil war. Not just for our country, but for the future of our children and generations to come.
Elon is no savior & I disagree with him on many points. I’m not holding my breath… but I certainly will tip my hat to someone willing to invest 20% of their net worth to attempt to create a space for free speech. We’ll see if it actually goes that route.
I don't trust Elon, his goal is transhumanism.
There's safety in numbers and the more venues that allow speech, the better.
I agree on the alternatives. I didn’t have Twitter before, and I won’t now. I am happy to see at the very least an attempt in the right direction, but I’m mindful absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My understanding from the offer is there is private equity involved as a significant minority shareholder. Based on private equity rules all these investors are themselves relatively rich and powerful (ie they can afford really really good lawyers). I’ll take Musk at his word on wanting to keep the full 2,000 legally allowed investors. Even the richest man on Earth has limits to the cash he can access, and billions is a motivation not to destroy the company he sold private equity on investing in with him to save it.
More than anything though is the importance of competition. We are living with insanity largely because of consolidation. As the number of public companies continues to decline through unchecked mergers and acquisitions, so to has quality, customer service, consumer choice, and investor choice. The same arguments can be applied to media and speech.
The best way to keep Twitter from going off the deep end again is to ensure the platforms so many fled to remain viable healthy alternatives.
I think Rumble is my favorite aside from Substack, even though I massively prefer to read over watching. I like GETTR and Truth about the same.
In the end, Daily Wire might end up overtaking everyone. It seems the only alternative media to recognize the woke war is being launched against our children, and only Daily Wire has made a serious financial commitment to capturing that giant market. If someone came up with a Discovery/ NatGeo alternative that focused on actual facts and objective reality along with kid’s content the growth would be unstoppable.
I wouldn't put too much into "Musk attended Chinese AI conferences"; he did because they're far ahead of the U.S. and the West in that field, and the all-imporotant race toward AGI/ASI. The assertion by Steve (et al) that "Musk is beholden to China because that's where his money comes from" was never true, he's never relied on Chinese financing, doesn't need it and the structure of the Twitter deal proves that. If Tesla used their equivalent of "Industrial Revenue Bonds" to build a factory IN China, that's just good management; why wouldn't they use local incentives? Missing in the whole analysis is that he wants Twitter's infrastructure to overlay IoT/M2M applications on it, across Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, & for industrial users. 280 Bytes is a useful payload in the SCADA arena. Nobody's noticed that. Cheers, Raheem!
Let’s remember, these platforms (companies) are only publicly traded because their creators wanted to cash out early, not so you could own some.
Good point!! Spread the truth on all platforms to reach more.
Thank you Raheem! Agree with you 💯
I wonder if these social media platforms are actually obsolete. From My Space to Facebook to Twitter, the were supposedly where family and friends could keep in touch with each other, then they morphed int something different where "influencers" could spew their trendy influenza, and political opinioners could could opine to the great unwashed masses. Now, when TPTB have decided that only politically correct utterances will be tolerated, these platforms have become ugly places of bullying and intolerance. I have never joined any such platforms. I prefer to do my own thinking, and I have always found far better places to learn. I care very little what Elon Musk does with his wealth, though I have to laugh when I hear people on CNN and MSNBC say that billionaires should not be able to buy things like Twitter, conveniently forgetting it is leftist billionaires that have bought most of the media. Lack of self awareness is the order of the times. The much repeated quote of the day: "Free speech is a threat to our democracy." To them I say: Then, shut up!