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In my opinion, Elon Musk bought Twitter for user data much more than he bought it for free speech.

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And keep in mind that he's a Pentagon and well, he's a military and intelligence contractor, just like Palantir is.

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So let's back up for a second. So Palantir, Palantir, deeply tied to the CIA, it decides who goes on the domestic terror watch list or main core for the CIA based on your online activity.

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That's what Palantir does. So I'm on for sure.

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LifeLog, you mentioned earlier, Peter Thiel, at the time he was trying to privatize Total Information Awareness, which was directly related to LifeLog in many ways.

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He becomes the first early or the first outside investor in Facebook that made the company what it is today.

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Yeah. So Facebook is like a DARPA.

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The same day that LifeLog was shut down and later went on to hire former DARPA directors like Regina Dugan to run top parts of their enterprise, as well as, you know, people like Sheryl Sandberg, who was like deeply tied up with Larry Summers.

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And isn't it weird, but Larry Summers ends up on the board of like Thiel protege companies like Sam Altman's OpenAI and all these other things.

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Interesting. But, you know, Facebook, what it was doing also was sucking up all of this data.

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We were freely giving it to them. And this is what, you know, the guy that created LifeLog was like directly said Facebook is like what LifeLog had was going to be.

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But no one people were worried about giving LifeLog data when it was a DARPA program.

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But now that it's a private company, no one cares. But we know that Facebook and all these other companies have given our data to the government.

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Even new X policies have said that, like, your DMs can be given to the government if there are requests made and things like that.

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So I think Elon Musk plays both sides. I think he does good cop, bad cop between himself and his CEO, Linda Yaccarino.

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Well, you know, she'll come out and say something that's unpopular and Elon Musk will say something else.

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But ultimately, you know, Twitter's policy isn't really that different.

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And now the people doing identity verification for Twitter, because the goal for Twitter, Elon Musk said at the very beginning, is to verify all humans.

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So have you verify yourself by linking your government issued ID to your Twitter account.

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So no more anonymous Twitter accounts. Right. And the problem with that is that, you know, they probably know who you are if you're anonymous.

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But if they don't like what you're saying and or, you know, they think you might commit a crime or something like that before you do it.

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And this pre-crime paradigm that they've they've set up, if they link it to your government ID, that's troubling.

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And the company now doing it, it used to be an Israeli intelligence connected firm.

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Now it's Stripe, which I believe is funded by Peter Thiel and some of these other PayPal guys.