[ExI] Satoshi Nakamoto

[John Clark]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>>If I was a trillionaire I would NOT have …spent $44 billion in 2022 to
>> buy Twitter…. John K Clark*
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> *> Twitter was going to fail had not Elon saved it. *
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*Yes, and that's one reason I don't like the man. It would've been more
merciful to give Twitter a quick painless death.  *


> * > Now, Twitter is the world’s free speech town hall. *
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*I think everybody should have a right to say anything they please, but if
I was super rich I would NOT feel obligated to give a $44 billion megaphone
to conspiracy theory lunatics, dispensers of legal medical advice, or
neo-Nazis. Let them get their own damn megaphone!  *


> *> It’s has replaced commercial news with a commercial-free alternative. *
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*If commercials don't pay the bills then something else has got to. In the
case of Wikipedia the money to run it comes from individual donations with
the average one being only about $12. That became possible because Jimmy
Wales was a sort of benevolent dictator of it and he managed to produce
something admirable that millions of people loved and believed deserved a
small donation. Linus Torvalds did something similar with Linux. But Elon
Musk's production was a cancerous sewer full of hate, stupidity and
ignorance, so he had to keep Twitter/X alive on life-support with his own
money. *

* > What’s not to like about that?*
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*I would love that if I was a fan of conspiracy theory lunatics, dispensers
of lethal medical advice, and neo-Nazis. But I am not. *


*John K Clark*
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