{"id":2265,"date":"2021-01-13T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333897"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:11:44","slug":"after-parlers-troubles-donald-trump-jr-wants-elon-musk-to-build-a-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"After Parler\u2019s troubles, Donald Trump Jr. wants Elon Musk to build a social network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/tnw?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F05%2Felon_twitter.jpg&amp;signature=cbe8f572e3df0257a19f414ea2ea4a80\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>After big tech firms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube, banned Donald Trump, the outgoing president and his supporters flocked Parler,&nbsp;<span>a social network favored by the alt-right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, that network ran into all sorts of trouble because of content that can potentially incite violence. Amazon Web Services <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/explainer-what-is-parler-and-why-has-it-been-pulled-offline\/articleshow\/80237691.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">booted it off its cloud infrastructure<\/a>, and Apple and Google removed the app from the App Store. Now that the social network and its CEO are offline for now, Trump supporters are looking for a new home.<\/p>\n<p>So in a bizarre move, Donald Trump Jr. has called for the world\u2019s richest man, Elon Musk, to create a new social network. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CJ949TyAisl\/?igshid=1u9x1xj672y7n\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">an Instagram video<\/a>, he said, \u201c<span>If Elon musk can privately send people into space, I\u2019m sure he can design a social network that isn\u2019t biased.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump Jr. added that Musk could out-do Twitter and create a social network that takes care of hate speech and calls of violence with \u201cactual neutral arbiters and fact-checkers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Musk called out Trump\u2019s social network ban and said a lot of people might not agree to have \u201cWest Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech.\u201d However, the&nbsp;<span>billionaire has not expressed any intention of building a social network just yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.0588235294118\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1348688644173934593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">January 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s important to keep in mind that Musk\u2019s own social media record is not so rosy. He called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/dec\/03\/elon-musk-defamation-trial-begins-in-case-brought-by-british-diver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">a British diver working in Thailand a \u201cpedo guy,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;and caused Tesla shares to dive after he tweeted that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1256239815256797184?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">their prices are too high<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Trump Jr.\u2019s call feels more like \u201cOh, you know computers? Why don\u2019t you build a social network for us,\u201d and not a solid plan. I\u2019m not holding my breath for Musk to announce a social network for now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/us\/2021\/01\/13\/after-parlers-troubles-donald-trump-jr-wants-elon-musk-to-build-a-social-network\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After big tech firms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Twitch, and YouTube, banned Donald Trump, the outgoing president and his supporters flocked Parler,&nbsp;a social network favored by the alt-right. However, that network ran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}