Elon Musk’s extreme agenda is a threat to the world. He helped elect someone who’s going to take away our rights and try to become a dictator and despite his wealth doubling after the election his greed and thirst for power isn’t and never will be satisfied. He wants to do the same in the UK. Very likely he will try to consolidate and gain power and wealth globally.
I’ve been brain storming ideas of what we can do to deal with him and here is what I came up with.
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Do what you can to get as many people off Twitter/X as possible. Since he has control over Twitter he manipulates the algorithm to boost himself and his interests. It’s great if you can tell anyone you know to stop using Twitter but what would have a bigger impact is if large accounts and institutions stopped using Twitter. Try leaving a comment on their page about why using Twitter is bad. This will also have a benefit that other people will see you comment. You can also send a DM to their account.
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Try to get your country to ban Twitter/X. There’s a petition to get X banned in the EU. This could be important for the survival of your country. Musk could show you propaganda that’s bad for your country so banning X would be a good idea.
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Contact advertisers on Twitter and demand they stop advertising. Send screenshots of their ads next to neo-Nazi and extreme content to the people who paid for the ads. They will not be happy seeing their ads next to that kind of content.
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Mass simultaneous strike or resignations at his companies especially Twitter. I think this one might be the most powerful one. Imagine if most employees all of a sudden stopped working or quit. Maybe a lot of employees could quit and start a rival company. The sad thing about Elon’s companies is there are many smart, talented and hardworking people who don’t get the credit for all they put into working for Elon. Also I’d highly recommend this article about turnover contagion.
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Investigate and sue for any illegal activity. Analyze everything he and his companies do under a microscope and if he did something illegal make sure he faces justice for it. Hold him accountable in all countries, not just the US.
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Boycott of his products. Make sure to not only boycott his product but do everything you can so other people also boycott. The less money Elon has, the less power he has.
I would love to hear your thoughts on how we can stop Elon Musk. If you have any ideas on how these ideas could be implemented or have ideas of your own please do share!
Twitter seems to be in (early phases) of a terminal decline. Advertisers (in the US?) might try to suck up to Musk for political reasons but at the end of the day they want a return on marketing spend.
Getting government services and public institutions off Twitter is a good initiative. Albeit in many countries, Twitter never really had the same impact as in the US. Where I live, Telegram is the source for notifications, updates and news.
Some of Musk’s products already have a stigma attached to them. Considering Musk’s degeneracy seems to be accelerating, I will speculate this will only get worse.
The people who are not comfortable with Musk and his plutocracy have left or will eventually leave his companies. The rest don’t care and arguably their attitude is part of the problem as well.
It will likely take a rather significant change in social attitudes (in the US, but not only) towards oligarchs and corruption to make Musk and other oligarchs take responsibility for their actions and to send them to jail.
The above-mentioned point will take time and if anything it looks like it’s only going to get worse (global rise of right wing movements supporting corruption and oligarchs). The silver lining is that eventually such systems start to implode due to their internal contradictions. Our current institutions (political, regulatory, economic, social) are simply not suited to the complexity and global nature of modern business, the externalities inherent to the information age and the challenges of our time. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” I don’t intend to defeatist, on the contrary, I am pointing out that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It just might take a lot of time (and suffering) to get there.
That’s a very well written analysis! I agree, things won’t be easy but we must try. I think he’s at his peak now or will soon reach his peak and then start declining. With Twitter I see the most evidence of it declining so I think we must strike Twitter while the iron is hot.