Elon made note of him providing internet to a few countries with starlink and that he thinks pairing that with twitter could have some interesting applications.
It would be pretty cool if he took individual countries out of the consideration and opened twitter completely wide to all users worldwide. For example, what happens in the Middle East if their citizens have zero restrictions on twitter and the countries have no ability to shut the internet down? Intriguing.
I don’t see those things as really being related. If Musk can provide filter free internet to those areas via starlink then they’d have plenty of applications available to them to speak freely. Truth Social, for example.
They are related in that I have heard Jack Dorsey say that Twitter is moderated(may not be right word) differently in different countries for different level of sensorship. Put that on top of that most countries have the ability to shut the internet traffic in their country down as of now. If you take twitter, remove those individual considerations for each country, and provide an internet that can't be shut down, interesting things will most likely happen in countries with oppressive regeimes.
If I was Elon, and had no other way to make a crap ton of revenue off of a very expensive recent investment, I would sell those countries the ability to keep that power and I would sell it for wild amounts.
