| ▲ | dyauspitr 13 hours ago |
| It’s awesome but also worrying. Elon is a political timebomb. I wouldn’t put it past him to selectively deny people usage based on political alignment, sex etc. At least for now there are much worse geosynchronous competitors, but some future state where one doesn’t exist is worrying. |
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| ▲ | lmm 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Musk is at least a named individual, somewhat accountable for his decisions. Yes him having the ability to cut people off is worrying, but I'm less worried about him doing it than e.g. the Internet Watch Foundation, or whoever cut off Kiwi Farms (where we still don't really know who's actually responsible). |
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| ▲ | 71bw 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | >(where we still don't really know who's actually responsible) Keffals and Fong-Jones | | |
| ▲ | lmm 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Allegedly. Even assuming they were the people who wanted that to happen, we don't know how/why they have the authority and who to vote out if we don't like their decision, whereas Musk is expected to be appointed by the duly elected president who made it clear to the electorate that this was his plan. | | |
| ▲ | 71bw 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | >we don't know how/why they have the authority Oh we know damn well. The good old "scream so loud the issue cannot be ignored anymore" issue. Especially with Fong-Jones' background in tech with access to a lot of vocal influencer figures in the field. Not to mention the big amount of brain-melted teens who immediately assume anything said about anyone who dares to express negative opinions about what the aforementioned teens believe as true and create a supposedly warranted lynch mob against them. |
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| ▲ | hcurtiss 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Wouldn’t put it past him? Can you offer even a single example? |
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