On 2022-11-04 15:09, Brett Delmage wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > >I'm not saying [twitter] isn't but why was it valued so high? (That's > >rhetorical.) Even if it loses money, it is still likely be quite valuable > >to Musk as a tool to facilitate other goals. > > Any social media property/corporation is only valuable as long as bazillion > target users are engaged, giving up their privacy, and reading ads or > content that the owner wants to influence them with. > > And users are free to trivially disengage or leave, as they have on other > social media in the past.
Bitcoin or dollars are only valuable because enough people think they are. Gold does have other uses. > Nothing else matters. > > Of course U.S. government TLAs may value a social media property which has > bazillion users spilling every moment of their lives and being geo-tracked. > Who's to say an agency doesn't have a hand in the current twitter situation? That is absolutely possible. slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] To get help send a blank message to [email protected] To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
