{"id":151086,"date":"2022-11-25T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-is-not-a-renegade-outsider-hes-a-massive-pentagon-contractor"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T20:22:22","slug":"elon-musk-is-not-a-renegade-outsider-hes-a-massive-pentagon-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/elon-musk-is-not-a-renegade-outsider-hes-a-massive-pentagon-contractor","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider\u2014He\u2019s a Massive Pentagon Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WL3DQfQqCQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you think the image of Elon Musk as a good human being should come to be questioned when he\u2019s a major contractor of the war machine? What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>By Alan MacLeod \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor\/280972\/\">MintPress News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, TEXAS \u2013 Elon Musk\u2019s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. \u201cMusk is the wrong leader for Twitter\u2019s vital mission,\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-04-25\/elon-musk-and-twitter-are-a-bad-match\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a> one <em>Bloomberg<\/em> headline. The network also <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-04-25\/elon-musk-is-buying-twitter-which-is-bad-for-twitter-tesla\" target=\"_blank\">insisted<\/a>, \u201cNothing in the Tesla CEO\u2019s track record suggests he will be a careful steward of an important media property.\u201d \u201cElon Musk is the last person who should take over Twitter,\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-should-be-last-person-twitter-hostile-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> Max Boot in <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, explaining that \u201c[h]e seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.\u201d The irony of outlets owned by Michael Bloomberg and Jeff Bezos warning of the dangers of permitting a billionaire oligarch to control our media was barely commented upon.<\/p>\n<p>Added to this, a host of celebrities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/celebrities-activists-quit-return-twitter-elon-musk-purchase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly left<\/a> the social media platform in protest against the proposed $44 billion purchase. This only seemed to confirm to many free speech-minded individuals that the South African billionaire was a renegade outsider on a mission to save the internet from authoritarian elite control (despite the fact that he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/elon-musk-twitter-qatar-saudi-arabia-takeover-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">borrowing<\/a> money from the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia in order to do so).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think the image of Elon Musk as a good human being should come to be questioned when he\u2019s a major contractor of the war machine? What are your thoughts? By Alan MacLeod \/ MintPress News AUSTIN, TEXAS \u2013 Elon Musk\u2019s proposed takeover of Twitter has ruffled many feathers among professional commentators. \u201cMusk is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}