"The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery."
On the scale and performance side that’s not necessarily true. The big cloud companies have incredible scale, data centers everywhere.
There are a number of pedes here who have deep knowledge on stuff like this, can’t recall their usernames. but from what I do know, the scale part is there, it’s not on the Gov side.
But, a lot of folks don’t realize that the actual physical backbone of this magical thing we call the internet is entirely controlled (and regulated) by Big Gov.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/14/elon-musk-make-a-massive-proposal-offers-to-purchase-twitter-for-41-billion-with-plan-to-take-company-private/
"The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
There is simply no way the Fourth Branch of Government, the U.S. intelligence system writ large, is going to permit that discovery."
On the scale and performance side that’s not necessarily true. The big cloud companies have incredible scale, data centers everywhere.
There are a number of pedes here who have deep knowledge on stuff like this, can’t recall their usernames. but from what I do know, the scale part is there, it’s not on the Gov side.
But, a lot of folks don’t realize that the actual physical backbone of this magical thing we call the internet is entirely controlled (and regulated) by Big Gov.
StarLink is very dangerous to that monopoly.