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Elon Musk Stepping down as head of twitter: according to own poll · Elon Musk Podcast

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On December 18th, Elon Musk on December 18th, Elon Musk posted
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a poll on Twitter and the question was, should I step down
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as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of
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this poll. 42, .5 percent said, no fifty.
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Seven point five percent said, yes, there were Seventeen point
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five million votes on this pole So, according to this one data
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set on December 18th, Elon Musk has stepped down from the head
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of Twitter. He's not going to be in charge
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of Twitter anymore if he abides by the results of this poll.
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Now, there were some interesting characters that came out of the
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woodwork during this process and I'm not sure if you and I'm not
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sure if you're familiar with the website called Myspace.
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It was basically the first social networking site or one of
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the first social networking sites.
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Back in the day. There was Friendster and Myspace
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of a couple small ones that were more targeted for like action
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sports. Some Myspace was the big one.
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You can make yourself a profile, you could put some cool GIF.
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Animations in the background and have some background, midi
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music, playing and sparkly things, all over your profile.
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And in a tweet by Tom Anderson who's the founder of Myspace, he
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said depends on who you get to run it with a little scratch,
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your chin Emoji after it. So could this be an indication
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of some plans going on behind the scenes?
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We're not sure yet. There's been no talk from Elon
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since this poll about what could be happening to the head of
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Twitter and all of this drama happened.
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Right after there was sort of a rug pull of new rules by
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Twitter. The CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk
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Has Gone Bananas. According to some, because he
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instated a rule For promotion of alternative social platforms.
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This is a policy that was added to Twitter in December of 2022.
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This is a place where people discuss politics where they
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discuss articles that they've read, they discuss all sorts of
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things all across the internet and they link out to them.
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And that's what are the benefits of having Twitter.
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And having a social media platform is that you can show
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people where to go, what to see and how to get there.
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Now, the new policy on Twitter was that there are prohibited
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platforms that you can't post out to prohibit a platforms.
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You can't link out to them, prohibitive platforms, our
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Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, truth social tribal post and
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Nestor. I'm not sure what that last one
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is an OST. Our Ed also third-party social
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media link, aggregator such as link tree and linked by.
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Oh, Examples, follow me and then your username on Instagram,
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something like that. So basically people that were
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spamming all of their other socials because they didn't like
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the direction that Twitter was headed, they would post them out
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onto the profile, a tweet it out once or twice a day, maybe put
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it in their profiles and say, hey follow me on Mastodon.
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This is a new place that I'm going to be at.
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I'm not really digging what's going on over here Twitter.
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So I'm going to be over a true social or Macedon or Instagram,
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or Facebook or wherever. It is, or you can check out all
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my links on all these other platforms like link tree.
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So, Elon made this policy that you can't put those links in
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your profile, and you can't put them in your tweets, okay?
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I understand where they're coming from with this because
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promoting another social media platform on any platform.
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It drives people away, safe from Twitter to go to Facebook, but
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if you like Twitter, you'll stay on Twitter.
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It's basic economics. Its basic business.
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And if you send somebody off to another platform, they enjoy
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that platform even more than Twitter.
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They're going to make the choice anyway eventually, so you can
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keep them on your platform right now and offer them something
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that the other platform is don't have which is something great
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and if you can go over to Facebook and you can find that
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thing that's not on Twitter you're probably going to stay on
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Facebook anyway so that's where Twitter is coming from.
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Don't send them off the platform because they might find
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something or someplace that they want to hang out instead.
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Said they didn't say anything about Reddit, though, which is a
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weird one. Because, right, it is a pretty
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great place to hang out if you're looking for information,
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which also Twitter is full of information as well, but Reddit,
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not on this list like surprisingly.
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I'm really surprised and shocked by that one because, right, it's
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very active. This policy was put in place.
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December 18th at around 5:00, p.m.
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Eastern Standard Time. And then the same day, December
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19. Well, so the next day, I guess
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12:20 a.m. no more policy around midnight.
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They yank the policy out about six hours later.
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Everything was back to the way it was before and apparently you
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can link out to other sites again or still.
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But there's no clear indication. If this is coming back, or if
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you can get banned for linking out to other sites and this
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comes from when all of those reporters, remember, just the
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other day, when all the reporters, Is and all the
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journalists and all those people were tweeting about Elon and
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Elon jet. Well, this all kind of loose
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back to that. Elon band a bunch of these
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reporters and journalists and they mostly had other accounts
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on other social media platforms. They had Mastodon accounts, they
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may have had a Facebook account or an Instagram account, or
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something like that and Ilan solve it and they said, hey this
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is stupid idea. Like, why do we want to do?
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That's why we want to link out to other peoples platforms.
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It doesn't make any sense, financially I get it.
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You know, say if you're here's a good analogy that one of my
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friends told me when we were talking about this.
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See if you run a Ford Motors a dealership, you know, you're
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trying to sell your Ford cars, your Ford trucks or SUVs trying
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to get, you know, them to buy a 40,000 dollar vehicle.
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Why would you talk to them about a Chevy vehicle?
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At that point makes total sense. They might go down to the Chevy
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dealership and see Similar for a little bit less price.
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And they may go over there by that car or truck and spend
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thirty thousand as opposed to 40,000 or 35,000.
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You lost that sale. And that's what Twitter thought
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about with these link outs. You're losing a sale.
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You're losing money. When people leave your platform
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in about a six hour time frame, six or seven hour time frame,
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Twitter changed a huge huge policy and it doesn't exist
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anymore but we'll bring you up to date on that.
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When something comes about that, let's let's talk a little bit
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about Elon leaving as the head of Twitter.
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I December 18th at 6:43 p.m. eastern time.
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This is about 28 minutes, twenty twenty some odd minutes after
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the first poll, Ilan. Twitty tweeted as the saying
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goes be careful what you wish as you might get it, this is a
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weird thing to say that closely. After you do a pole like this,
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Because if you think about it, he's saying I could possibly
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either maybe put somebody worse in.
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I'm not sure. I don't know what he means by.
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This is kind of cryptic, as the saying goes, be careful what you
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wish is you might get it. So maybe the pole because he
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lost the poll 57 point. Five percent said yes, 42.5 said
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no. So according to that poll, he's
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leaving. But if we wish for him leaving,
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what does that mean? Does it mean he's going to be
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shutting down? Twitter doesn't mean that he's
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going to be leaving as a CEO is the, the, the head of Twitter
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now or is he going to just leave it with no head of Twitter?
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You know, maybe there's no head and maybe it's run with a
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different sort of business model, where everybody's kind of
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in charge, it's something like valve does when you're
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developing software for their platform, where you're
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developing a new game, you kind of find your your place.
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It's in the development cycle. You choose that.
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You pick that. You think you can do your best
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job there and then you just kind of work on stuff.
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That's maybe elon's talking about something like that.
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But as the saying goes be careful what you wish.
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As you might get it, if you're wishing for Ilan to leave, I get
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it. I understand it.
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He's a very controversial figure and people that are listening to
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the show right now. You understand it as well.
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You might, you may love his V's, you may love to You may love
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Tesla in email of SpaceX, it might even have a Tesla.
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You might have even visited SpaceX a headquarters in
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Hawthorne, you may have even did what I did and went down to the
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Starship facility in Texas. I spent 10 months down there
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because I believe in his vision. I believe in the vision of
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SpaceX and the Starship facility in Boca Chica, Texas is
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absolutely amazing. Absolutely stunning and
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insanely. Cool.
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But do you think I'm going to propose this question to you?
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Because I think we should all kind of think about this if
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we're if we're a fan of Elon or if we're not a fan of you on, do
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you think this is kind of a little bit too much?
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To do the Twitter thing to do SpaceX to do Tesla to do boring
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company. Neurolink Etc, he's tweeted
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recently. He said he's not really doing as
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much as they used to do at SpaceX in or Twitter or Tesla,
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sorry, and everybody else that he put in charge, they're doing
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their jobs, great. And he doesn't need to be there
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as much as he used to do. And he doesn't need to spend the
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time there. He doesn't need to sleep on the
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factory, floors anymore. He doesn't need to live Boca
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Chica Texas, he thrives on the startup mentality, he gets
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backblaze.com, Ilan. So Gwynne, Shotwell with SpaceX
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without Gwen. She's in charge of the Starship
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program. Now, without her down at
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Starship, he led would be running too thin to be able to
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be down there all the time and he doesn't own a home.
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There there is a home on Highway 4 on the way down to Starbase in
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SpaceX is Boca Chica, Starship facility on the way down there
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and it's a it's a property. The SpaceX owns in it's a nice
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home on the way down, but I don't believe it's a Elon Musk
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house. He has a little house that he's
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renting out or he's he may have bought it.
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It's a fifty thousand dollar small home at the Boca Chica
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facility, but there's no way he's going to spend all of his
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time down there anymore. They're on a really good track
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to launch two orbit possibly by the end of this year or early
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next year. So Ilan doesn't need to be there
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anymore. So could this mean that the
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Eland just did what he had to do?
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He's getting rid of the Bots. He put the blue check mark
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system in place, you know, you have to pay the eight dollars
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every month. Now that's going to bring them
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in some Revenue but also did he shake it up enough and he can
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put somebody else in charge that could run the business on a
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day-to-day basis and he could go back to the broader ideas
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because everybody fell in love with the Elon Musk that was
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saving the world with Evie's. That was saving people gas
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money. You know.
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Like that was one of the Great things about Evie's and Tesla's
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in the beginning and if you're a Tesla fan you know it as well as
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I do the technology at that point was light years ahead.
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It was, it was an order of magnitude or two orders or three
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orders of magnitudes farther ahead than any ice car at that
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point. I mean, you haven't basically a
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Touch iPad for to control your car.
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That's crazy. Well, that was crazy back in the
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day, but now, you know, it's a, it's a normal thing in Other car
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manufacturers are catching on. And finally, I wouldn't say
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catching up to Elon and Tesla, but he doesn't need to be there
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on a day-to-day basis because he has people in charge to continue
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making these decisions and continue building his legacy
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out, right? So you're always as somebody
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like Steve Jobs, you always rely on the people that build your
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products and always rely on the people that you hire because
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they're experts, you hired them for a reason, you pay them all
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of this. Money for a reason.
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And the reason is because they do a really great job, there are
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experts in their field and this is kind of where I think Elon is
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at this point. Now later on that night on
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December 18th. Wall Street.
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Silver said in a tweet. Yep, he already has the new CEO
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picked out. Ilan, will retire to be chairman
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of the board and Tweeter? Okay, so maybe he's chairman and
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maybe he's going to move up or move sideways.
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Have somebody else be in charge, but maybe he is a
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decision-maker. He's one of the decision makers.
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Elon tweeted back replied. No one wants the job who can
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actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor Okay, so
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this is a, this is an interesting tweet, there's no
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successor to him at Twitter. Could he be shutting Twitter
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down? I, there's no way he already
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spent other people's money to buy Twitter.
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They want their money back. They want to make their money
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back and right now Twitter isn't making as much money as it needs
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to make in order to pay those people back right away.
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Maybe two, three years, maybe four years, five years, who
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knows. But the reason the Elan bought
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Twitter was to build it into this giant platform with a
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payment processor and all these other ideas.
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That he had hosting larger video files longer, video files,
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monetizing video, monetizing audio, monetizing tweets, maybe
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like a super tweet kind of thing like a like a YouTube.
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Thank you, Super Chat. Kind of thing or like a Reddit
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where you can give them awards for their for their tweets and
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for their posts. So you can pay somebody x amount
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of crypto or money or whatever because you enjoy their tweets
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and you're a fan of their work. And I'm going to make money with
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that. But you know on says there's no
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successor, nobody who actually keep Twitter alive wants the
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job. What kind of company needs
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somebody that specialized in one role in order to stay alive?
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Nobody wants a job who can actually keep Twitter alive.
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There's no successor. Nobody wants a job.
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I think there are probably some qualified people out there that
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would really love to take the Helm of Twitter.
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And run it, make it profitable, you know, of course, discuss
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things with the chairman of the board Elon Musk in the future,
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there's nothing there be no better job for somebody that's
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interested in a social media. Then to be the the person that's
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running the platform and another person that jumped in here, the
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18th kim.com notorious for filing for a, his a
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file-sharing. Service kim.com said, hey, Elon
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Musk. It's unwise to run a poll like
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this when you were now deep State Enemy Number One, if the
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biggest bot Army on Twitter, they have 100,000 analysts with
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40 or 30 to 40 accounts, all voting against you.
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Let's clean up and then run this poll.
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Again the majority has faith in you.
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And then somebody named unfiltered boss said, blue
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subscribers should be the only ones that can vote in
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policy-related, polls. We actually have skin in the
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game. Ilan said good point.
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Twitter will make that change. So, you have to pay to vote on
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Twitter now. So instead of power to the
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people like Elon said before, he wants everybody to have a voice,
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a democratic voice, everybody across the land to be able to
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speak their mind freely. Now, he's saying you have to pay
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to vote so you can't speak freely.
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You're not speaking freely, you have to pay eight dollars to
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speak freely. You can't vote without paying
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money to this guy. So is that going to hamper any
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of these new polls coming out for me?
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Lon he was supposed to abide by the first poll.
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If he can prove that most of those people that voted, yes,
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were Bots. I get it.
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Run another poll, but ban those Bots move forward.
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Don't make people pay money to voice their opinion.
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It doesn't make any sense. And that's me being critical
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because I think everybody should have that voice as well at.
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You have that voice as well, you should let people know, Ilan
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know on Twitter that you, if you don't think that's a good idea.
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Tell him, you know, that's the whole point.
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It's a democracy. See over there.
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Now we're supposed to be able to talk and say whatever we want to
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say and Free Speech absolutist if you want free speech, don't
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put a pay wall up for people to speak their mind.
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That's not the way it works. It's not the way it should work
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in my opinion. And, you know, I'm a huge fan of
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Elon Musk. Let me, let me run this back a
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second. I'm a huge fan of this guy's
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work. I like I said, I moved to Texas.
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I'm from New York. I've never, I've only been a
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Texas twice in my life and both times.
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I thought it was extremely hot. The people were nice is
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extremely hot, but I didn't want to live in Texas ever.
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I never saw myself there and then I had the opportunity to
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move to Starbase. Well your Starbase in
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Brownsville and it was you know I did it because I believed in
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the vision of Elon Musk. So I admire his work, I admire
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what he's done but this seems like a weird kind of weird thing
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to, to take up arms. For good point, Twitter will
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make that change. He said about the blue
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subscriber should be the only ones that can Vote in
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policy-related polls. Now, will he roll it back?
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Will he say his first ball doesn't work, you know it's not
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the right one because there's Bots or will he say?
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You know what, I'm gonna step down maybe he'll just gonna
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change his title you know, that's what he wants done
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before. Maybe he's not going to be the
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head honcho were or have a certain title the head of
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Twitter. Maybe he's going to does name
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himself, you know, twit and charge or something like that or
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or twit master or something. You know, who knows, who knows
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what he would say, but you never know with a lot.
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He's kind of out there sometimes now, I really do appreciate you,
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you know, hanging out here with me today and I'm glad we can
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have these conversations sometimes.
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They're tough conversations and that's fine.
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Sometimes, I don't want to hear this stuff either, you know, I
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want Ilan to be the Bastion, the savior of all of, you know, the
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humanity I want. I want him to do the right thing
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and I want him to focus on the things that are important.
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You know, the things that are important.
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Of course, free speech is important.
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Can we have free speech without Twitter?
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Yeah, of course we can, you can walk outside your house if
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you're in America and if you're in the u.s. you can walk outside
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your house and say anything you want to anybody want to can you
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Can use do anything you want to do.
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Kinda I mean, as long as you don't break laws.
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Yeah, sure. You can say anything you want to
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say, as long as you're not harming, other people is
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Twitter, the place where you need to speak freely, is this,
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the place where ideas are shared now as opposed to, in real life
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and how many people are on Twitter, compared to what the
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population is? And in the u.s., it would be a
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really good study to figure out population density of Twitter,
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compared to population density of all of The u.s. also, it's
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really good platform for people to speak freely from other
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countries as well. And I met I do still want to
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single out the us but since I am from the US, it's easy for me to
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talk about that so other countries it's it's a really
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great Bastion for free speech. You can say anything you want to
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say as long as you don't harm other people and maybe if they
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put this policy back into place maybe the free speech of linking
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out to other. Platforms.
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Could be, could be helpful to other people and the EU has laws
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coming onto the books next year. I think it's May of next year,
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it's early early to mid next year.
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Banning people from Banning platforms from Banning people
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that link out to other sites. So this is going to be an
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interesting time for Twitter in the next three, four, five
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months because if they put those Policies in place where they you
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can ban your profile for linking out to another site.
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The EU is not going to really enjoy that and they're going to
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start. I believe it's a 20% on all
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revenue. I believe that's what it is.
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So don't quote me on that, I don't have the numbers in front
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of me right now but there's a lot of money at stake here.
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If they continue going down the road that Elon wants to put them
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on. Now I want to say thank you for
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listening this long and I appreciate your support.
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Of course, of course. I love you all.
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And you know, I want you to do well and I want you to please
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make your voice heard to Elon about what's going on.
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His Twitter handle is at Elon Musk.
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You can get ahold of the guy. You can comment on it, you can
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add him, whatever. You need to do and you can run
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your own polls. Nobody has to charge for your
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poles, do they? I don't think so.
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So that would be a great great way for you to contact.
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Elon, if you want to continue listening to Elon Musk news,
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please hit the Subscribe button on any podcast platform that
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you're listening on. I really do appreciate your time
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today. And I really am thankful that
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you're here. So take care of yourselves
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please and your fellow humans and I'll see you next time.
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Bye bye.