Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
    133·
    9 months ago

    A few billion could provide free high-speed internet to everyone worldwide

    Since there is about few billion people on earth, does that mean that high speed internet costs about a dollar per person? You did not think this through, did you?

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      There are eight billion people on earth, so it’s even cheaper. Internet access is one of those things that requires infrastructure that gets cheaper per user as it scales up. At a global level, yes, internet should be ridiculously cheap per capita.

      The cost we pay here in the US is mostly profit for the oligopolies that control the last mile. Licensing fees because they control access via legal obstruction. If I were to create a community server, it could be much cheaper as a non-profit cooperative, but for the cost defending from litigation from the established chains.

      In other words, cost of the internet is inflated by force, not because internet access is expensive to construct and maintain.

      • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Internet access is one of those things that requires infrastructure that gets cheaper per user as it scales up.

        that is… misleading at best. yes, it is cheaper to connect apartment building with 1000 apartments inside than solitary farm in the middle of nowhere, but it is still lot more expensive than you think. the fibers and putting them into ground costs fuckton of money. same goes for wireless technology. your one dollar per user does not even cover ethernet socket inside of the apartment.

        The cost we pay here in the US is mostly profit for the oligopolies that control the last mile.

        seems to me that you should start your own business, start putting fibers into ground and become ridiculously rich!

        There are eight billion people on earth, so it’s even cheaper.

        i will skip over the part where you decided that you can compare “few” and “eight” in size, and point out that your logic means you have less(more) money per user, not that it is cheaper(more expensive).

        In other words, cost of the internet is inflated by force, not because internet access is expensive to construct and maintain.

        in other words, you know about as much about building internet infrastructure as this guy knows about dealing with hurricanes.

        just admit you pulled these numbers out of your ass and move on…