Elon Musk

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    I don't often ruminate on conspiracy theories or come up with them, but I've got a growing one with Twitter / X.

    We didn't see the right-ification of Elon coming until the past year, actually, even the past six months. But even then I wondered what he could do with access to user accounts, IP addresses, etc. even on anonymous accounts using anonymous email accounts.

    There's a story out there about X's issues with The Onion buying Infowars:

    Musk's X claims ownership of InfoWars accounts in sale to The Onion
    https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26…

    That wasn't what ultimately made me think this because I've been thinking about it for a while, but it added to the worry: if Elon can do whatever he wants with X, X accounts, user info, etc. what's to prevent him from gathering info on anti-MAGA accounts to use that info in a government or accessory-to-facism capacity, or, to even publicly out anti-MAGA users?

    There's got to be a risk that even entirely anonymous accounts that don't reveal the actual human behind them could be connected to their actual owner, right? Especially, for instance, when a user has both a "real me" account and a burner / anonymous account. I have both. Both use different email addresses. But I have to imagine that by virtue of being logged into both on the same device, they're able to establish that a single user is on the app switching between accounts, by which they can cross-reference user data that wouldn't even require IP address recognition.

    Reddit must be able to do that as well (I've got a couple Reddit accounts) and occasionally when a post has been removed because of certain subs' stringent rules on what can be posted, their messages tell you that attempting to circumvent a ban by using a different account will result in full termination of access. So of course they have to be able to see the connections between logged-in accounts on the same device. If you were to keep your usage fully separate for "real-me" accounts and burner accounts by using one on a mobile device and another on a computer, it would be harder, but still possible?

    Anyhow, it doesn't keep me up at night or anything, but with everything Musk is doing and getting involved in, it doesn't seem far fetched that he could do whatever he wants with X accounts and go scorched earth and say "here are all the people who have ever spoken out against Trump, MAGA, Musk himself, Tesla, etc.

    Thoughts?

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    • Forgot to say this: I think we're seeing glimpses of the real goals in buying Twitter, AND the reasons for such significant foreign investment in it.mg33
    • Foreign investment - Saudi sovereign wealth fund is the largest shareholder at 16.9% - might not be connected to MAGA support goals, but it's worrisome.mg33
    • Elon and X, I believe, have access to every DM convo between any user. The expectation of privacy or security for DM's should be non-existent.mg33
    • And, irony of all ironies, Elon touts X as this bastion of free speech, yet their censorship of content they don't like, and the algorithm(s) priority towardsmg33
    • serving up right-leaning content is well known now and obvious if you interact with any right-leaning accounts.mg33
    • Honestly, the algorithm at this point seems as basic as it can get. It's incredible how engaging with even two posts outside of my typical consumptionmg33
    • completely shifts the focus to posts related to those outlier engagements. I looked at TWO posts about using AI to help buy crypto, and it's like 90% of my feedmg33
    • shifted to crypto and investment posts immediately, with political posts diminishing just as fast when viewing the main feed.mg33
    • It felt good to close all my X accounts. Sticking to QBN for all my social media needs.nuggler
    • I think you have to assume that this does happen, both on X, and on all major platforms, and that really nothing has changed since Elon took over.monNom
    • You are the product, and that means that EVERY interaction you have is monitored, aggregated, classified and affinity grouped to the 9th degree.monNom
    • An whether it's pre or post Elon, the government seems to have pretty deep tentacles in to these organizations, and does obtain access to people's posts/DMsmonNom
    • An no, you are probably not fooling anyone by switching accounts. Even your list of installed fonts can act as a fingerprint.monNom
    • He went right like tons of people over fear of trans kids. Full stop. everything else is a facade._niko
    • u saw that interview of him about woke...where he was pissed that children were learning in skool that g.washington had slaves...neverscared
    • must be coz he is a slavemastern himself as in exploitation of workers...see sweden ..or high risk of accidents in his factoriesneverscared
    • https://www.reuters.…neverscared
    • or crawling into their homes when sick
      https://fortune.com/…      neverscared
    • pretty bonkers...the sucker who acusses states of being the woke stasi thinks its ok that his corporation can stasi itself in their workers home....neverscared
    • read my pouty lips:

      Ch-Y-N-A      ArchitectofFate
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