Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it’s the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I’ll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.
Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we’re engaged. And the most important ones are on social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is TikTok. Number one. Number one.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in September.
One rich asshole called Larry Ellison is a large part of the purchase. He’s a VERY close ally of Israel and his son David runs Paramount Skydance. Larry’s backing their acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Ellison family has a very big say on what media gets created and watched in the US now.
Starting to think centralizing the internet into platforms owned by far-right billionaires might have been a bad idea.
Me reacting to that statement 30 years ago: Yeah ok it’s the Illuminati controlling the world and doing evil shit. I’ll be sure to hunt them down in the future smash hit game Deus Ex.
Me reacting to that statement 30 seconds ago: fuck
Haha next you’ll be telling me that allowing broadband cartels in the US to collude and conspire against consumers was a bad idea
https://thenewregion.com/posts/3251/tiktok-ownership-shakeup-raises-fears-of-israeli-government-influence
One rich asshole called Larry Ellison is a large part of the purchase. He’s a VERY close ally of Israel and his son David runs Paramount Skydance. Larry’s backing their acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Ellison family has a very big say on what media gets created and watched in the US now.