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Bill Gates works full time in spending money on projects with social good like vaccinations and searching for solutions to things like mosquitoes, disease, clea

Bill Gates works full time in spending money on projects with social good like vaccinations and searching for solutions to things like mosquitoes, disease, clean water, education, poverty, woman’s health, energy, sewerage, reducing methane emissions from livestock. Musk does fart jokes.

bluescrn 4y ago
Musk defends freedom of speech. In his own flawed way, but better than many. And that makes a lot of people incredibly angry/scared.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
  We've already seen him banning accounts of people who were saying things he didn't agree with so I really don't think we can say he defends freedom of speech. What Musk seems to want to do is make money off of attracting and offering to signal boost what would be otherwise unpopular speech. He's monetizing speech, not making it free.
  - jqpabc123 4y ago
    The only "freedom" Musk has defended is his own to suppress anything he doesn't like. He has displayed all the "media bias" he accused others of having --- just in an opposite and arguably more extreme manner.
- sharemywin 4y ago
  unless it conflicts with his agenda: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/elon-musk-blocks-likes-and-replies-to-tweets-that-link-to-substack-in-a-pique-of-pettiness/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/elon-musk-blocks-likes-a... https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143291081/twitter-suspends-journalists-elon-musk-jet https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143291081/twitter-suspends-j... more examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...
- fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
  In many ways the false expert is more harmful than the do-nothing layman.
- tucosan 4y ago
  This is such a boring take. Musk could "defend free speech" (as if that is something that was ever substantially contested - Trump the shit talker par excellence has been president of the US of A), and still actually improve the world for everyone by funding medical research or the conservation of the rain forests. But yeah, let's drink some more of the Kool aid that the super rich like Musk and Trump are sticking it to the man.
- karmakurtisaani 4y ago
  Freedom of speech hasn't been an issue in a long time. Even if it was, the likes of Musk would just replace the status quo with their own restrictions on what's allowed to be said. Thanks for the good chuckle though.
bryanlarsen 4y ago
Tesla's master plan includes the electrification of the entire world economy. https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tesla-impact-report-highlights.pdf https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tesla-impact-report-hig... Tesla's impact on CO2, NOx and PM25 emissions have prevented a large number of premature deaths (at least 6 figures, likely). Musk didn't start Tesla to save the world, he's not an environmentalist, he's a humanist. He started Tesla because he thought the world was running out of oil. But a lot of Tesla employees are environmentalists, and so are a lot of their customers. Intentional or not, Elon Musk & Tesla will be responsible for a significant decrease in the global warming rise. I don't know if he'll beat Gates or not in terms of global positive impact, but they can be compared.
- taylodl 4y ago
  Musk didn't start Tesla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla%2C_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla%2C_Inc.
  - bryanlarsen 4y ago
    A judge has ruled that he is one of the founders of Tesla. https://www.tesla.com/blog/judge-strikes-claim-who-can-be-declared-founder-tesla-motors https://www.tesla.com/blog/judge-strikes-claim-who-can-be-de...
    - taylodl 4y ago
      Just because a judge ruled it doesn't make it so. Legislatures have decreed the value of PI is 3.14. That didn't change the actual value of PI.
      - bryanlarsen 4y ago
        Judges are more authoritative than legislatures, wikipedia and random internet comments. If you have a point that is actually relevant to the original comment please make it. You're arguing semantics, not substance. Perhaps I shouldn't have said that Musk "started Tesla" because it's a contested point but removing that phrase has 0 impact on the rest of the comment.

bluescrn 4y ago

Musk defends freedom of speech. In his own flawed way, but better than many. And that makes a lot of people incredibly angry/scared.

SketchySeaBeast 4y ago
We've already seen him banning accounts of people who were saying things he didn't agree with so I really don't think we can say he defends freedom of speech. What Musk seems to want to do is make money off of attracting and offering to signal boost what would be otherwise unpopular speech. He's monetizing speech, not making it free.
- jqpabc123 4y ago
  The only "freedom" Musk has defended is his own to suppress anything he doesn't like. He has displayed all the "media bias" he accused others of having --- just in an opposite and arguably more extreme manner.
sharemywin 4y ago
unless it conflicts with his agenda: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/elon-musk-blocks-likes-and-replies-to-tweets-that-link-to-substack-in-a-pique-of-pettiness/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/elon-musk-blocks-likes-a... https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143291081/twitter-suspends-journalists-elon-musk-jet https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1143291081/twitter-suspends-j... more examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-matt-taibbi-substack/673698/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/elon-musk-...
fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
In many ways the false expert is more harmful than the do-nothing layman.
tucosan 4y ago
This is such a boring take. Musk could "defend free speech" (as if that is something that was ever substantially contested - Trump the shit talker par excellence has been president of the US of A), and still actually improve the world for everyone by funding medical research or the conservation of the rain forests. But yeah, let's drink some more of the Kool aid that the super rich like Musk and Trump are sticking it to the man.
karmakurtisaani 4y ago
Freedom of speech hasn't been an issue in a long time. Even if it was, the likes of Musk would just replace the status quo with their own restrictions on what's allowed to be said. Thanks for the good chuckle though.

bryanlarsen 4y ago

Tesla's master plan includes the electrification of the entire world economy. https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tesla-impact-report-highlights.pdf https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2022-tesla-impact-report-hig... Tesla's impact on CO2, NOx and PM25 emissions have prevented a large number of premature deaths (at least 6 figures, likely). Musk didn't start Tesla to save the world, he's not an environmentalist, he's a humanist. He started Tesla because he thought the world was running out of oil. But a lot of Tesla employees are environmentalists, and so are a lot of their customers. Intentional or not, Elon Musk & Tesla will be responsible for a significant decrease in the global warming rise. I don't know if he'll beat Gates or not in terms of global positive impact, but they can be compared.

taylodl 4y ago
Musk didn't start Tesla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla%2C_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla%2C_Inc.
- bryanlarsen 4y ago
  A judge has ruled that he is one of the founders of Tesla. https://www.tesla.com/blog/judge-strikes-claim-who-can-be-declared-founder-tesla-motors https://www.tesla.com/blog/judge-strikes-claim-who-can-be-de...
  - taylodl 4y ago
    Just because a judge ruled it doesn't make it so. Legislatures have decreed the value of PI is 3.14. That didn't change the actual value of PI.
    - bryanlarsen 4y ago
      Judges are more authoritative than legislatures, wikipedia and random internet comments. If you have a point that is actually relevant to the original comment please make it. You're arguing semantics, not substance. Perhaps I shouldn't have said that Musk "started Tesla" because it's a contested point but removing that phrase has 0 impact on the rest of the comment.