Elon Musk Slams Mark
Zuckerberg For Controlling Too Much Speech In America
(PresidentialHill.com)- Elon Musk mocked Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday,
accusing him of wielding too much power over public discussions and referring
to him as “Zuckerberg the 14th.”
Musk, 50, was in Vancouver for the TED conference when he
was questioned about his ambitions to purchase Twitter, which he had already disclosed.
He claimed that it was a bid to safeguard democracy and
promote freedom of expression, not a ploy to gain money.
When asked what he would say to detractors who argue that
having the world’s wealthiest man oversee such a powerful platform may be
hazardous, Musk said he intended to make it more open, not more limited.
Musk explained that as for media ownership, Mark
Zuckerberg owns Facebook,
Instagram, and WhatsApp, with a share ownership structure that will keep Mark
Zuckerberg the 14th controlling those firms. Musk was referring to Louis 14th,
the all-powerful ‘Sun King,’ much to the audience’s delight.
Musk said it would be a different environment on Twitter
with him at the helm.
Rather than controlling Twitter himself, Musk stated that
he intended to maintain as many stockholders as possible. He owns 9.1% of
Twitter at the moment. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp’s parent company,
Meta, are held by Zuckerberg, who owns 12.8 percent of the corporation.
Musk also stated that he intended to open-source
Twitter’s algorithm and would like to err on the side of freedom of speech than
censorship.
Musk’s philosophy would be, ‘If in doubt, let the speech
exist. If it’s a gray area, he would say, let the tweet exist.’
Musk says he is not claiming he has all the solutions,
but he believes social media should be extremely hesitant to delete anything.
Permanent prohibitions should be approached with caution.
He believes that timeouts are preferable to permanent
bans.
Musk and Zuckerberg have had a turbulent relationship for
a long time.
In November 2014, Zuckerberg hosted a meal at his Palo
Alto home for Musk, two top researchers from Facebook’s new artificial
intelligence division, and two other Facebook executives. According to The New
York Times, Zuckerberg organized the meal in response to Musk’s repeated
warnings about artificial intelligence, which he considered alarmist.
The two never got along: in July 2017, Zuckerberg said on
Facebook Live that Musk’s ideas on AI were quite reckless.
Musk said that he’s talked to Zuckerberg about AI and
that his knowledge of the topic is quite poor.
The bad blood between them is ever-present.
When a SpaceX rocket explosion in 2016 damaged a Facebook
satellite, Zuckerberg expressed his disappointment by saying he was very
saddened by its “failure.”
Musk publicly deleted his companies’ Facebook pages when
Facebook was questioned about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, tweeting that
the company gave him “the willies.”
Since then, Musk has urged people to ‘#DeleteFacebook,’
accused Facebook of spying on users, and blamed the business for inciting the
January 6 uprising.
Musk confessed on Thursday that he had no idea if his
offer for Twitter would succeed.
Later on Thursday, Twitter’s CEO told employees that the
board is still debating Musk’s bid to take the social media company private for
$43 billion, promising a “rigorous process” but not committing to a timetable.
After the board meeting on Thursday afternoon, Parag
Agrawal, 37, addressed the company’s employees in an all-hands meeting.
He told employees that the company was still evaluating
Musk’s $43 billion offer.
Stay tuned.
Connecting the Dots:
Mark Zuckerberg is
a co-founder & chairman & CEO for Facebook
and was Chris Hughes Harvard
roommate.
Chris Hughes was Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate, a
member of the Democracy Alliance
and is a co-founder for Facebook.
George Soros was a member of the Democracy
Alliance, the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the International Rescue Committee and the Climate
Reality Project.
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and is the COO & director for Facebook.
Colin L. Powell is
an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee and a strategic adviser for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers was an investor in Twitter Inc.
Albert A. Gore Jr. is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the chairman for the Climate Reality Project.
Resources: Past Research
After Spending at Least
$25M for Open Borders, Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25M
to Combat Ebola (Past Research on Facebook)
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/10/after-spending-at-least-25m-for-open.html
Twitter Shuts Down
‘Truckers For The Constitution’ (Past Research on
Twitter)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/10/twitter-shuts-down-truckers-for.html
Viacom President on
Trevor Noah’s Twitter Scandal: ‘We’re Not in the Business of Censoring People’ (Past Research on Twitter)
THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/06/viacom-president-on-trevor-noahs.html
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