Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank
www.theverge.com
Musk wants your “entire financial life” on his platform.

“If it involves money. It’ll be on our platform. Money or securities or whatever. So, it’s not just like send $20 to my friend. I’m talking about, like, you won’t need a bank account.”

Well that sounds terrifying!

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Well there’s still the slight difference that Trump was the president of the most powerful nation in the world and Elon is a random tech bro. If you don’t drive Tesla nor use Twitter or Star Link then what ever Elon does has virtually zero effect on you life. You’d be surprised of how insignificant person he is outside this bubble. Most normal people pay no attention to him as they shouldn’t.

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Tell that to the Ukranian soldiers who had their Starlink access cut off during a critical moment in the war with Russia or to the people injured/killed by Tesla’s half-baked autopilot that Elon refuses to admit is not safe for public use, both of which are decisions spearheaded by Elon, directly.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        It was not cut off. Starlink was not enabled on the coast of Crimea in the first place. They asked Elon to enable it to which he said no.

        • Chozo@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          They had previously had access, and then were denied further access by geofencing critical regions. That’s effectively the same as having services cut off.

          • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            1 year ago

            Starlink was never enabled in Crimea because that would be against the sanctions placed by the US. You’re spreading misinformation.

            • Chozo@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink-russia-crimea-war-drone-submarine-attack-sabotage/

              Isaacson writes that Musk reportedly panicked when he heard about the planned Ukrainian attack, which was using Starlink satellites to guide six drones packed with explosives towards the Crimea coast.

              After speaking to the Russian ambassador to the United States — who reportedly told him an attack on Crimea would trigger a nuclear response — Musk took matters into his own hands and ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink coverage “within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast.”

              This caused the drones to lose connectivity and wash “ashore harmlessly,” effectively sabotaging the offensive mission.

              Ukraine’s reaction was immediate: Officials frantically called Musk and asked him to turn the service back on, telling him that the “drone subs were crucial to their fight for freedom.”

              They had access. Musk revoked it from the Crimea region after the fact.

              • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                No they didn’t

                Isaacson, the biographer, issued his own clarification on Sept. 8, acknowledging that Starlink was not enabled in Crimea in the first place:

                To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

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