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Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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The fact that we have so much of our politics in a private company is dangerous.
Musk has the power AND ability to post tweets as if they were from any of the candidates.
Not as a sock puppet. But as them directly.
This is a dangerous ability.
I hadn't considered that. He couldn't get away with it now, but if the orange bad gets back into power and we go full-fash, I definitely think it'd be used against "enemies."
He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I'm aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.
Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, "I believe we should execute all illegals" might be an easy one.
But think of this more subtle tweet: "The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations."
We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.