I hadn’t considered that. He couldn’t get away with it now, but if the orange bad gets back into power and we go full-fash, I definitely think it’d be used against “enemies.”
He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I’m aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.
Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, “I believe we should execute all illegals” might be an easy one.
But think of this more subtle tweet: “The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations.”
We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.
The fact that we have so much of our politics in a private company is dangerous.
Musk has the power AND ability to post tweets as if they were from any of the candidates.
Not as a sock puppet. But as them directly.
This is a dangerous ability.
I hadn’t considered that. He couldn’t get away with it now, but if the orange bad gets back into power and we go full-fash, I definitely think it’d be used against “enemies.”
He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I’m aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.
Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, “I believe we should execute all illegals” might be an easy one.
But think of this more subtle tweet: “The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations.”
We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.