Well he will always be a billionaire and that buys you a lot of things. But people are starting to finally treat him like the other billionaires, recognizing that the money doesn't make him better, smarter, or more interesting in any way... Musk is like Zuckerberg and those other pukes
I'm not arguing this point. Social media puts a lot of people with poor qualifications in front of a much larger audience than they ought to be able to reach. I'd have no problem with Musk using his megaphone if what he talked about was his businesses. He uses that influence a lot more randomly than is healthy for us as a whole.
We'll see what the people in the know say. I'd be a lot happier knowing that they died instantly in a crush days ago as opposed to sitting on the bottom waiting to die or swept up in a current that doomed them because they have no way out of the sub without assistance.
So people shouldn’t be able to talk freely about whatever they want unless you deem them some sort of expert with credentials? Sounds like state run media via totalitarian regimes is what you seek. Scary that people think like you.
It has nothing to do with right to speak. It has to do with the potential audience which is now *everybody*. You have to have "you cannot yell fire in a crowded movie theater in the absence of a fire" type rules in place and we do not have those for social media yet.
While I agree that Musk and others have an outsized influence on public discourse....I'm not sure that censorship is the answer. There are lots of experts (in their field) that disseminate incorrect information... either by mistake or deception.
Who would have guessed that you would be a proponent of the government telling people what they are allowed to say?
Looks like they found parts of the Oceangate sub in the debris field. If that's the case... it's pretty much a done deal.
BBC has a report that a friend of the family of a passenger confirms that two pieces from the debris field belonged to the submersible. I’ll find a link in a second. Edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65967464
"We now have an indication of the nature of the debris reported by the US Coast Guard (USCG) on Twitter. It is a cover from the aft - or rear - end of the Titan submersible and its landing frame - the section under the sub that enables it to sit on a ship deck or on the seafloor. It is bad news. It points to the scenario experts had feared right from the outset - that the Titan had experienced a catastrophic failure of its pressure vessel and imploded." I guess that's better than slowly dying off without oxygen trapped inside
They got the merciful end. Probably no more than a second of panic before they died and probably not even that.
The worst ending is in front of us because now 9 million commissions will be formed to figure out what went wrong and how to keep history from repeating down the road. All we really needed to happen was a wicked lawsuit that put the founder's family in a barrel and suspenders and the risk effect would have kept similar schemes at bay. Instead we'll wind up with dueling sets of regulations on how big the toilet can be on a manned submersible going to 12K feet.
Jenn Sullivan on Twitter: "CNN confirms: OceanGate released a statement saying they believe the passengers onboard the Titanic expedition submersible have “sadly been lost.” Full statement below https://t.co/9QY5hxkHQI" / Twitter
