> I would assume Elon will do far worse things with the data.
I notice here the casual dismissal of actual, observed harm for the sake of fantasies of future harm. I wish that the similar casual dismissal of government censorship laundered through private media monopolies came with some similar sort of fear of how President Trump or President DeSantis will handle their brand-new tools in a couple of years.
That being said, Democrats saw what Bush did with his unchecked executive powers, and didn't roll a thing back when they later had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Instead, they continued doing politics by executive order, and cemented AUMF as a declaration of a permanent state of emergency.
I notice here the casual dismissal of actual, observed harm for the sake of fantasies of future harm. I wish that the similar casual dismissal of government censorship laundered through private media monopolies came with some similar sort of fear of how President Trump or President DeSantis will handle their brand-new tools in a couple of years.
That being said, Democrats saw what Bush did with his unchecked executive powers, and didn't roll a thing back when they later had the Presidency and both houses of Congress. Instead, they continued doing politics by executive order, and cemented AUMF as a declaration of a permanent state of emergency.