Elon Musk: Always A Douche

[garbon]

Seems a bit of a misstep in his quest. He'll have to outcompete both Uber and PayPal?

Or alternately convince them to collaborate based on his vision and leadership track record.

How is PayPal managing to keep going these days anyway?
Given the ease of direct bank transfers in the 21st century so much of its previous necessity seems to have gone, and this is a field with a lot of stuff going on that looks destined to further eat into it.

Crime.

The USP of all these online payment systems (and cryptocurrencies) is crime.

Lol no. That's cryptos field now I am fairly certain.

PayPal is good for not having to provide your credit card details for every random website you order from. It's for security, not crime. Even for trustworthy sites I find it better to use PayPal instead of saving my card details with the site or my browser, or Hod forbid having to type it in every time.

Yeah, that's my use case too. I find myself using Paypal quite often for both safety and comfort.

Same. I also think added layer of protection for potential disputes as if they don't solve can always then tackle with my credit card company.

PayPal did help me when I paid an online merchant who never sent the items.

[Syt]

PayPal is good for not having to provide your credit card details for every random website you order from. It's for security, not crime. Even for trustworthy sites I find it better to use PayPal instead of saving my card details with the site or my browser, or Hod forbid having to type it in every time.

That, and I've been using it for subscriptions to some sites. I used to sub to NYT at some point, and the cancelation process at the time was quite opaque and wanted you to jump through a silly amount of hoops. If I run PayPal as payment method on those I can just cancel the auto-payment for the site I want to cancel.

[Syt]

[The Larch]

Aaah, Twitter shitheads, never change...

[Syt]

[The Brain]

He is incredibly tiresome.

[Jacob]

The CBC has paused their activities on Twitter: https://www.cbc.ca/news/editorsblog/cbc-twitter-news-1.6813747

[Barrister]

Musk is entirely tiresome.  Wholeheartedly agree.

But CBC is overly precious at times as well.  It is heavily funded by the government.  I agree it's an arms-length agency that reports to Parliament, but Parliament also appoints both the CBC's board of directors but also the CBC President.  Heck we've had two Governor Generals appointed out of CBC (Adrienne Clarkson and Michaelle Jean).

There's nothing to suggest that the PM is calling up the CBC to kill stories.  Everyone involved has more integrity than that.  But to think that the level of control the government has over the CBC doesn't influence what stories they cover, or to what degree, is I think naive.

I mean I don't really care whether the CBC's Twitter profile says "government funded" or not.  I mean I know its government funded.  Heck if you want to get technical a lot of Canadian media is government funded - most legacy newspapers are subsidized through the Canadian Periodical Fund.  But how is it an attack on anyone's editorial independence to point that out?

[The Brain]

But does the CBC insert "69 hur hur" stuff?

[garbon]

BB is smarter than he plays on TV.

[Barrister]

But does the CBC insert "69 hur hur" stuff?

No they do not.  I mean that's the really tiresome part, isn't it.



By the way I see that our opposition leader Pierre Poilievre is posting replies to Musk and again calling for the CBC to be "defunded".  Pierre I really think that message is a net loser.  Enough people like the CBC, plus it does have a role in providing news and information to remote communities that nobody else can do (plus "defund" is terrible messaging) that he should reconsider.

[The Brain]

Sveriges Radio [Swedish state-funded radio] stops being active on Twitter. The reason stated is that fewer and fewer Swedes are on Twitter, according to Sveriges Radio's blog.

"The public has simply chosen other places to be. And therefore Sveriges Radio is now choosing to deactivate or delete the last remaining accounts".

SR also comments that the Ekot [news show] account has recently been labeled by Twitter as "Publicly funded media". Something which, according to the radio, is not an oddity, but is "a correct description of how Sveriges Radio is financed". The Ekot account will remain even if will not be active.

[crazy canuck]

Musk is entirely tiresome.  Wholeheartedly agree.

But CBC is overly precious at times as well.  It is heavily funded by the government.  I agree it's an arms-length agency that reports to Parliament, but Parliament also appoints both the CBC's board of directors but also the CBC President.  Heck we've had two Governor Generals appointed out of CBC (Adrienne Clarkson and Michaelle Jean).

There's nothing to suggest that the PM is calling up the CBC to kill stories.  Everyone involved has more integrity than that.  But to think that the level of control the government has over the CBC doesn't influence what stories they cover, or to what degree, is I think naive.

I mean I don't really care whether the CBC's Twitter profile says "government funded" or not.  I mean I know its government funded.  Heck if you want to get technical a lot of Canadian media is government funded - most legacy newspapers are subsidized through the Canadian Periodical Fund.  But how is it an attack on anyone's editorial independence to point that out?

You are becoming one with PP.

How is it an attack you ask?  Well you yourself did the attacking in your post.  Naive to suggest that the CBC reporting is independent you say?  Stop with your right wing conspiracy bullshit please.

[Grey Fox]

The Federal government can't even pay it's employees. I don't think it can assert any kind of control over the CBC.

[crazy canuck]

The Federal government can't even pay it's employees. I don't think it can assert any kind of control over the CBC.