The Problem With Elon Musk

[@johnnyharris]

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[@gozfit5410]

How is this video 1m ago, and u send this 10 days ago. is my screen glitched lol

[@nattybelay9747]

Daniel 7 KJV - ዳንኤል 14: And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

[@nattybelay9747]

Daniel 7 KJV - ዳንኤል 14: And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

[@JMArchives]

@@nattybelay9747 abortion is evil and pride is a sin

[@PacificaJaena]

He's the one actually trying to enforce freedom of speech

[@AmitSingh-jj7ho]

Pls make the same kind of video for Bill Gates

[@goden8884]

Bill Gates is on another level of megalomaniac.

[@hydoffdhagaweyne1037]

He will make it

[@Nitrles]

his ture devil

[@AdminXLSD]

Do it, you won't 😂

[@AureusApps]

Bet he won't

[@GSRCAOR]

I dislike that at the beginning of the video you suggest there will be interviews with former employees and even show a 5 sec clip of one. Yet, for there are none throughout the remainder of the video. I watched this whole 40 min ordeal just to not even see that part that had me interested in the first place. After scanning your references, they don't appear to be in there either. So idk why even bring them up in the video if you don't actually reference them or showcase them in any part of the video.

[@joes.customs]

First comment I saw that actually brought this up, legit thought I missed this too

[@BioTheHuman]

Thanks man, I forgot about them in mid-video 💀

[@dragondragon5974]

I was also surprised and disappointed that they weren't in the video

[@jtaylorb88]

Bait and switch, he's no better than all the other news outlets.

[@yossarian67]

Lame! Unsubscribing due to lack of integrity

[@meganmueller]

His daughter is transgender. That’s the missing piece in the story. He said it’s a major reason he bought Twitter, because he thinks she was brainwashed to be trans by her California University. It’s personal.

[@jnprz9799]

THIS

[@bardsamok9221]

He's going for 'control'. Simplifying it to trans is way too simple. He's not going to tell you the real reason, he's an expert at marketing. Narcissistic megalomaniac, with plans for media communications and designing his version of the world that is way off the scale of 2024 paradigms, and completely self interested.

[@meganmueller]

@@bardsamok9221 accurate. Although, it’s pretty obvious from his recent talk with Jordan Peterdong that him being a dead beat dad to his trans daughter was a huge part of the motivation. He’s coping sooooo hard about her changing her last name and saying she never wants to see him again.

[@NattyByNature-]

@@bardsamok9221 scary

[@NattyByNature-]

@@Asn-xh9nqif this is what you think it’s about then please do more research.

[@annesuekocoyle1956]

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”

[@PneumaNoose]

What a quote

[@Chimashainduni]

That's why it's so important to know your blood. Most children today don't know their real parents are. They were never accepted for who they really are. Most people see children as a commodity to maintain a status quo. Never to pass down their own wisdom.

[@VictorO-i8v]

Truer words never spoken 😂

[@magnusm4]

Thank you Africa for some tasty wisdom.

[@adamkiehl2316]

That's a cute quote... where'd you find that gem? While people may mark that as wisdom... it's just a qoute. People use quotes all the time for many different things.. but saying a qoute isn't a measure of wisdom nor is it contributing to teaching others the difference between reality and some messed up ideology like "non-binary" humans.

[@oldschoolben438]

Hey Johnny, you’ll probably never read this comment but I think I know why Elon had his pivot. I’ve been a shareholder way longer than most Tesla stans and have been watching Elon’s progression in real time, before most people had even heard of him. The pivot came because of the pandemic but it was the final straw of 4 events I see as formative to his current world view. There was the jury trial Tesla lost regarding racism and resulted in a gigantic jury award (later overturned). Elon prides himself on being race-agnostic, and as a youth, he was much more willing to be friends with black South Africans than other whites. He was very confident Tesla was going to win the trial, and likely blames the “woke mind virus” for the unjustifiably high award. Then there was his daughter coming out as transgender. There are few details about this but I think it is safe to say Elon did not take this well. They have no relationship with each other and again Elon likely blames woke ideology for this. He keeps saying that he “is a liberal”, but he thinks the political spectrum has moved so far left that it makes him look like a conservative. Then there is his sense of betrayal by the Democratic Party,(which he voted for up until either the 2016 or 2020 election) which has never embraced him despite the fact that he made the electric car happen (along with improving large-scale electrical storage). Because Tesla is not unionized, the Dems cannot get too close to him for fear of alienating their union base. He has been repeatedly shut out or ignored by the Dems on many initiatives, whereas e.g. Mary Barra was given undue credit for innovating in the EV space. Lastly, the pandemic happened, and as someone else here had mentioned, he was angry that the government had the power to shut down his factories. He himself had a different view of the seriousness of the pandemic, and felt that he was being muzzled and censored for his view in the early months and days of the pandemic.

[@communitygardener17]

You have described someone who needs approval and is terrified of criticism. Without taking in feedback how can he get the course correction one needs to avoid going over the waterfall or over the cliff?

[@a.b.4251]

I think it is hard to take any other criticism seriously if you are in charge of so many lives. At the pinnacle of power you will choose the most trustworthy to be your sole advisors.. Otherwise you will go wrong all the time..

[@Apprendre-Photo]

"Not taking well" that his daughter is transgender is already conservative ideology, making all claims he's liberal untrue. He seems to generally reason from first principles and has historically been pretty rational to build Tesla and Space X to where they are, but on societal issues he's clearly dogmatic. If he wasn't, he would know basic facts, like gender affirming care has a wildly positive effect, or that there are physiological differences in the brain of transgender people which align more with their gender than their biological sex. The only explanation I see is he's so conservative he's blinded by his values.

[@pinkstor]

One correction to this above comment " the political spectrum has moved so far left that it makes him look like a conservative." Many studies have show the the political spectrum hasn't moved left at all, but the right has gone much further right. I suspect that due to your reasons above (and others) that he has taken a wild lurch to the right.

[@oldschoolben438]

@@pinkstor I don’t know either way whether what you say is true, but I was saying that Elon thinks that the spectrum has moved left, I wasn’t making a statement of fact.

[@RickyRayPhotography]

The fact that they didn’t name his perfume “Elon’s Musk” makes me sad

[@nasheofficial]

Broo such a waste😭😭

[@IRosamelia]

The perfume should have been musk scented too. What's the use of burned hair scented perfume? 😅 Even Kramer's Beach perfume was a better idea 😂

[@WhizPill]

Lol disgusting

[@Marc_Gagne]

Who would buy this so-called perfume?

[@IRosamelia]

@@Marc_Gagne your mom 😜

[@LarryBert87]

I want to see Ground news bias meter on this one

[@user-wj9si6wu8n]

Exactly why I decided to watch a video from this guy

[@brandongers]

From the first few minute it’s not looking good for Johnny.

[@JordanAF808]

I wonder why he never mentioned the failed hyperloop, instead he’s distracted by being the last person to figure out the boring company joke. P.s. it’s just another tunnel boring company, he didn’t innovate shit.

[@ryanwould6597]

This video is indeed biased.

[@thulyblu5486]

@@JordanAF808 Yes, also the claim that Musk invents "unprecedented" feats of engineering when he's really not, just trying to improve existing ones: making rockets cheaper, make electric cars more popular etc... Some details in this video are downright false like Musk allegedly trying to buy the Soviet ICBMs in order to "rebuild" them when the plan was to just shoot one to Mars with a camera and a flower pot and claim "life on Mars" as a marketing stunt - no rebuilding was planned. Very superficial and poorly researched video unfortunately.

[@maxaluta3618]

The title of this video should have been “What I think of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter”.

[@Ariya037]

Definitely 😁

[@stevencolby3279]

About sums it up

[@ronfox5519]

Perfect summation. The rest was just a showroom we were routed through in preparation for the final sale.

[@Kmlcvlk999]

I can not stress enough how important twitter is for turkish opposition. Twitter is only social media platform in Turkey that is widely used and you can interact with. It is the organizing place of Gezi Park Protests,it is the place where journalists publish their investigations,it is the place where people who had forced to escape Turkey get their news and share their beliefs and information with Turkey,it is the place that international news enter to Turkey unfiltered. It is vital. It is the radio of 3rd world countries.

[@vincentmatthis]

Internet is dead for humans, especially with AI on the move. We need to go back to paper.

[@Kmlcvlk999]

@@vincentmatthis I don't think that paper communication could gather several thousand people to occupy the Bosphorus Bridge in the middle of the night because 50 protesters were brutally beaten in a random park in Istanbul, and that just 7 hours after the incident in the morning, it could mobilize one of the country's largest universities in full force and trigger a protest that almost resulted in the seizure of the parliament building.

[@mjouwbuis]

Will ex-Twitter remain that way under Musk? He might give parties that are favourable to him, some kind of advantage for example.

[@lynnefox4892]

​@@Kmlcvlk999Yes. That is why he bought it.

[@Kmlcvlk999]

@@mjouwbuis I hope it stays like this but I don't think so. There are several reasons. First, Musk avoids conflict with Erdogan and shuts down opposition accounts upon request, especially accounts of the Gülen movement and whistleblowers from the more "dark side" of the Turkish State. Second, the bot game is big in Turkey. Each party has its own unofficial but somehow related bots and trolls (this may be an effort of that party or it may be a reaction to Erdoğan from the party's mass, especially its youth branches). But Erdoğan and his party use bots and trolls on a completely different scale. Even if the old Twitter couldn't solve this problem, it at least curbed it. Musk isn't even trying.

[@psecdocumentary]

One of the most annoying and polarizing things I've seen, is that many Conservatives have become convinced that all Liberals are all hard core leftists. And of course equally on the flip side, many Liberals have become convinced that all Conservatives are far right. You all basically want mostly the same things, but both sides act as if the other wants entirely opposite things. The average person, regardless of their political side, is not so unhinged. The minority does not represent the majority, but the minority speaks the loudest, and the majority never speaks at all. Thats the problem..

[@frankvazquez5974]

Yes, and when someone as influential as Elon stokes these fires and has the legion of fan boys on here as he does.....that can't even see the issues this guy is bringing.....we are f*cked. These are suppossedly educated nerds, most of them.

[@doctaflo]

ahh, the Silent Majority-old as Nixon. definitely agree media incentives amplify the most insane voices, but i don’t think we can just “both sides” this; i think there really is a disparity between American right and left in terms of who’s more unhinged-remember Kellyanne Conway and the “alternative facts” community? i can’t remember sources, but here and there you pick up results of surveys, like 60-80% of voting Republicans genuinely believe the 2020 election was stolen, whereas less than 20% of voting Democrats are Progressives. tldr: qanon >> woke

[@jorgeenchilada]

they have become convinced of that because Donald Trump's teacher in politics was the attorney for Joseph McCarthy. You know, the same McCarthy who was one of the greatest demagogues the US ever had, who claimed there was a communist hiding behind every corner. Using the same rhetoric Trump and the republican party have become the source of modern day McCarthyism. It's far more devious than most people know.

[@IkeVictor]

The general left is farrr more left than the general right…..

[@aspacelex]

​@@e.b.1115So your examples are healthcare and a nazi conspiracy theory.

[@OMDAT]

I bet Elon really enjoyed this video until 18:10

[@OGRustinMac]

Where Johnny starts crying about Elon being a big mean bully head

[@oui2611]

@@OGRustinMac its his mormon roots coming out

[@ColinKip]

​@@OGRustinMac lol, top tier musk glazing😂 cope

[@just4fun607]

bro save Elon 18 mins from filing lawsuit

[@Rubbit2024]

Looks like it 😂😂😂 bro perhaps u may be Elon in disguise

[@bravoRFId63]

Don’t confuse freedom of speech to abuse of freedom!

[@YmirAsta]

So you’re telling me muussssssk doesn’t do that on ex huh

[@PaulMarino-x6u]

Abuse of freedom..... What the? There's no such thing

[@hamburger512]

42 minutes on Musk? Strap in boys

[@DubDTube]

Popped over to the conclusion, seemed underwhelming, might circle back to watch, altho thus far it seems... political

[@afghanica]

@@DubDTube scared much

[@DubDTube]

@@afghanica 😂

[@afghanica]

@@DubDTube bleep blurp oil bot : )

[@StarlordStavanger]

no, no i don't think i will.

[@zuferik]

Musk after watching this video: How much for KZbin ?

[@crow578]

Why? I'm a quarter of the way through & it seems like a puff piece. I've heard many of Musk's lies repeated verbatim with no critical analysis...

[@the0ne809]

he does not have the money to buy youtube. he literally had to borrow 13 billion in other to buy twitter and sell billions in shares. KZbin costs a lot more.

[@LestatTravesty]

i hope so! i'd do a got dam legit back flip if that ever happened lol

[@tw8464]

Nailed it

[@TheTenthDentist]

if google ever sold youtube I'd eat my computer glass panels and all. Just think of how much free AI collection they get from YT alone

[@sterlthepearl1000]

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell

[@LastbutNotFirst]

orwell becoming the most quoted author in history at this point. the man was on point.

[@martinasommer1306]

Oh boy😢

[@rorogexceluk9530]

Spot on

[@Lukewright426]

Y'know, I'm not a fan of orwell quotes because they're too ideologically ambigious. Too easy to shape into a specific belief and use as a reputable basis for a movement. Even when it's not. (doesnt really apply to this situation but whatever)

[@dopecat15]

1984 is a warning about the democratic party.

[@Kswaldman]

It’s heartbreaking how childhood trauma creates monsters. I have compassion for anyone who has undergone it AND They have an option to overcome it instead of becoming the villain themself. 😢

[@mollysullivan6414]

yes yes and yes. trump too had a very sad and unacceptable childhood filled with tons of emotional abuse and neglect. the man is a psychopathic tyrant and i think both he and musk are certified narcissists who are creating terrible problems--but it's a good reminder of just one of the many reasons why we need to protect and nurture children. we reap what we sow and the mess belongs to all of us.

[@zachloveringlive7419]

Would you consider it to be a conflict of interest that 5 of the authors from the study you cited worked for Twitter at the time??

[@Hekamiah112]

Thanks for writing this comment. Now I know to take all the opinions about him told in this video to mostly not be true.

[@ar71498]

Well wouldn't those people have the most accurate information?

[@x.x..x.x]

if they were honest, perhaps ​@@ar71498

[@B.D.E.]

Lol what? That's the opposite of a conflict of interest, that's insight. Interesting to note there seem to be a lot of bots commenting in favour of Musk though, including one responding to your comment above my reply.

[@KingTies]

@@Hekamiah112 Lol that study wasnt even about musk. Thanks for letting everybody know you cannot think for yourself.

[@SliceOfFish]

8:08 "Patents were not copyrighted" That's not how patents work. Patents and copyrights are two distinct forms of intellectual property protection, patents can't be copyrighted.

[@reed6514]

He also didn't "open source" anything as far as i know. Open source means there is an explicit license granting rights to use, modify, and redistribute. Harris didn't show any open source licences or suggest that any existed for Musk-owned products.

[@TheAsianRepublican]

@@reed6514 incorrect, open source does not mean what you said, there's 1000 different open source licenses, Apache, MIT, ...that are actually very restrictive. Open source does not automatically grant you the right to modify or redistribute. Why you must know the license terms of the Open Source

[@asherstribe5695]

I really hope he misspoke or he is clueless. You’re correct they are two very different and distinct forms of ownership protection.

[@Validifyed]

@@reed6514 Be careful not to confuse OS with FOSS.

[@MaskedMammal]

I remember digging into the claim that Tesla's patents were open for any company to use and pretty quickly found the catch. I don't recall the details, but it hinged on a total non-starter of an agreement you had to sign onto if you wanted to use their proprietary charging solution. Car companies had other options that didn't involve basically giving Tesla an automatic competitive advantage and went for that instead. Almost universally. The outcome (almost nobody in the market taking such a generous offer back when Superchargers were pretty much the only name in town) should speak volumes as to the value of the deal on offer. Sure, they eventually dropped the requirement and now we have car companies declaring support for NACS charging standard over the next few years, but the idea Harris presented that Musk left the patents wide open and free for everyone is just straight-up propaganda (at the time it happened). It's an incredibly misleading narrative that ignores the massive strings attached. If the patents were genuinely open and available, it would have been a big PR win and a huge move forward for the industry - instead it was just a free PR win at the expense of setting back EV infrastructure development and making sure Tesla remained the only viable option as long as possible.

[@jasper265]

"the patents weren't copyrighted" That's... an impressive level of not understanding the terms you're using.

[@richardhamilton-gibbs6360]

This guy doesn't get it. He's never heard of Matt Taibbi and the Twitter files? He's so far left he can't comprehend anything.

[@VestaRoleplay]

my thoughts exactly

[@Entertainment-]

It’s not surprising coming from ex-Vox media. Reminds me of when Vox published a video about TikTok claiming they made $16B profit when the article shown clearly shows revenue.

[@lachlanB323]

Open patent. He just used non copyrighted for some reason.

[@brandonburns5365]

​@@richardhamilton-gibbs6360no he comprehend. He's just doing what he's paid to do. He's a propagandist

[@CarlonSmith-c1w]

Elon is saving humanity from humans while punishing humans for upstiring humanity

[@andrewehyang]

“Elon buying Twitter is like a cigarette addict buying a cigarette factory” Nilay Patel

[@ElonMuskDailyLife]

well, twitter is how he built the massive followers he has and the MASSIVE influence he has around the world unlike other billionaires. He has enormous wealth, massive influence and big public support from around the world...

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Jonny's take on Musk's Twitter is Liberal-slanted, no surprise. Even if Musk censors Liberals, it does not even come close to balancing the tide of censorship that is directed against Conservatives. I've seen it used against myself plenty.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Johnny's take on Musk's Twitter is Liberal-slanted, no surprise.

[@Rock_Appreciator]

Nice

[@jerynturner4626]

It’s all about perspective

[@zeeshandogar9406]

Never has a Canadian immigrant from South Africa been so involved in US politics.

[@jamesthornton9399]

The USA runs the world.

[@drina4706]

Yeah.

[@FlintBits]

Give Orville Peck some time, he'll get there.

[@kaijo7309]

Wait you think Americans are ruling America currently? 😂

[@DaedricAzura]

@@kaijo7309 calm down conspirator

[@scevahful]

This landed a lot more as an opinion piece than journalism. You can shine things in the light without emotion and diatribe.

[@ELZIPOTECHAPIN1966]

Exactly!!!

[@d.l.d.l.8140]

Leon groupie much? 😂

[@FirstNameLastName-okayyoutube]

There was facts of a matter and journalism is often an appeal to emotion so I'm not sure what to make of your comment. My concern is that you think that Elon Musk deserves a bunch of hate when if pressed won't really be able to come up with an articulation to defend that has no one has been able to.

[@defreshh9961]

Without emotion? Why? Are we robots ? Ignorant comment

[@1970broncoman]

@@defreshh9961hard for adults to take seriously a piece that can be boiled down to “emotionally triggered”

[@teresaoftheandes6279]

My opinion about Elon has been formed soley by what he himself says & does.

[@AL-pv2bq]

Most based comment on all of youtube. The cringe trolls in the comments could never imagine.

[@SirojiddinBoboqulov]

“He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you” Nietzsche

[@bobaddair3273]

Good one 💯👍

[@ebre3080]

Everybody should be a monster but choose to be good and kind so you can defend yourself and your lovedones if needed.

[@samuellourenco1050]

That's why I don't want to be in a position of power. Because power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So either you are incorruptible just like God, or you will be corrupted.

[@MarleneColarossi]

@@samuellourenco1050😊

[@simplypositiveme]

This.

[@PikeyAz]

I thought it was 2 guys who started tesla, engineered the Electric batteries and designed the car. Elon Musk took the company public, then pushed them out.

[@Anonymus-qp2mb]

That's how they ALL get ahead...didnt zacaberg do the same with fb?

[@davidmaly6606]

​@@Anonymus-qp2mbzuc stole the idea but built the platform.

[@kidkarbon4775]

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were Tesla founders

[@michaeljames5936]

@@davidmaly6606 and tried to steal a huge chunk of the actual company too, from his...........friend.

[@Oomzilla]

It was

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

Elon: “make the algorithm reduce Johnny Harris’ tweets reach by a factor of a thousand”. 🤣🤣🤣

[@startek119]

Johnny is definitely lying about that seeing as how the X algorithm and community notes are both open sourced

[@mathewhosier9739]

He removed most of the algorithms, he hates manipulation, the dude is a free speech advocate, something that liberals used to believe in

[@johannesdewet6367]

lol

[@BatsiraiMusuka]

@@startek119 problem is, who in the company will dare turn on the community notes on head chief in charge. No one wants to get X’d 🤣😂

[@startek119]

@@BatsiraiMusuka He’s already been community noted and the entire algorithm and all its data is open sourced.

[@ayushgupta8428]

why are there so many ads popping up here and now in short intervals, ruining the completed video, please stop it !!

[@majesticunicornturle]

Take it up with KZbin ┐⁠(⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠)⁠┌ Its really annoying to me too Try to go to the end of the video and the to the front it worked in the past

[@coindesigner7477]

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@jennyterrell6354]

I cannot believe this only has 4 likes….

[@pablolarreategui9489]

Like government ? sure

[@patrickday4206]

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” freak Herbert a quote in his dune series

[@roxannemoser]

And Elon wants ABSOLUTE POWER!

[@pablolarreategui9489]

@@roxannemoser Lmao

[@ivosalvador3374]

This comment section is going to be fire

[@bsg1372]

I'm sure not a single bot will be here

[@ivosalvador3374]

@@bsg1372 elon and is army

[@deleted01]

@@bsg1372 well you're here

[@theblackspark2644]

It's sure convenient to write off everyone who disagrees with you as a bot.

[@monzerfaisal3673]

Claiming my spot rn! 3 hours in

[@efedevirgen5835]

Little info on the Turkish side: if you try to check those accounts, you can see them but in turkey they are blocked so we can't see them

[@Oblivisci........]

VPNs aren't hard to get.

[@videopilot1719]

A VPN is like a cheat code, but it should not be required for the default experience.@@Oblivisci........

[@user-vu7rv1xf1l]

I heard Instagram was blocked in Turkey, has X/twitter been blocked too? Do you know why? Is it because of the dog killing? Or is there other stuff going on too? I have found memories of Turkey, I thought it was a friendly place, I feel sorry for all the problems your country has been facing, I also feel very very sorry for the dogs.

[@ambroisevalet]

Twitter was actually doing a lot of illegal stuff, X is probably following the countrie s laws, that’s why some countries like turkey or india have a lot of bans vs usa. At the time of twitter, they would block accounts even if these were fine according to the law, and would not block accounts that were illegal in some countries. That’s what’s changed

[@MikeyDoesYouTube]

@@Oblivisci........ They are in some countries

[@bentsandman4932]

He creates controversy not because he always agrees with it. He’s smart enough to know that any controversy puts more money in his pocket.

[@jackreacher4297]

86k likes /20k dislikes for those who cant see the dislike button due to censorship.

[@FRM101]

how did you come by this Intel?

[@TheSmiesko]

​@@FRM101there should be some extensions, before it was visible in the app.

[@GamerBoyRobby]

You don't know that. I imagine there are more dislikes

[@menocorde]

The 20k figure is from the dislike database not youtube's. Imagine if the button actually showed youtube's dislike count.

[@danieldsantiagorodriguez4955]

​@@FRM101There's browser extentions that lets you see them.

[@Jorge351X]

“Either you die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”

[@comic1263]

Good one

[@sfguzmani]

Perfect quote for Johnny Harris as well..

[@KevinKickChannel]

Is this why we rarely see Tom Scott and Michael from Vsauce anymore? They took a step back at a point when we desperately needed videos like from those

[@littlecaesar1842]

"to see urself..."

[@gabrielsilvas692]

No shit, who put him up to this there's like 2 more extra level he didn't need in here ​@@sfguzmani

[@stayhungrystayfoolish759]

You should create a video discussing KZbin's censorship. Anyone who disagrees with KZbin's agenda gets banned, which is becoming excessive.

[@ankkaproductions5822]

well not abnned but shadowbanned and demonetized

[@jullyanyewerton7900]

then leave (???)

[@willypen8613]

​@@jullyanyewerton7900a sell out?

[@NickDrinksWater]

Definitely, half the time its almost impossible to comment without it getting deleted for no reason.

[@scottcpan68]

I think KZbin is leading the pack now when it comes to censorship, even surpassing Facebook. It seems as though all of the deranged leftists that used to work at Twitter, are now to working for Google.

[@philsanders9625]

"He wants to save the world, as long as its him saving this vision of the world" The simplest quote that sums him up is when they did an expo on the transhumanist movement

[@jackiecooper9439]

Point of correction. BBC doc was on Indian PM, not Prez. Prez is powerless and is always an uncontroversial figure.

[@Insert_generic_username]

Yeah it’s a understandable mistake - different Countries have (probably for historical reasons) a different name for the ‚head of government‘ role, it can get confusing.

[@MrZZsharka]

Yeah it depends on the country e.g. in Russia the Prime Minister is nowhere near as powerful as President Putin.

[@gavinquinton9184]

Really cool to see how Johnny took criticism of his fact checking process and has just quietly improved and overhauled his sourcing to the point that he’s footnoting every assertion and sharing it with readers. Investigative reporters employ this level of scrutiny, but the practice of sharing sourcing in this way is exceedingly rare in journalism.

[@Patricia-b]

Idk man, the story about paypal is still not correct, and it's one of the most debunked and known lies of the musk origin story. Insane that he missed that.

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

He still has a lot of errors throughout. Both in pro and anti Elon parts.

[@cbs1710]

The whole video is literally skin-deep. Never delving into actual truths or what really happened (i.e. once it was eventually surfaced, but the news cycle never picked that up again), etc. The accolades you sing are undeserved, they are the barest minimum of a proper reporting (which, sadly, is a commentary onto itself how low the everyday journalism had fallen).

[@TimothyCHenderson]

@@cbs1710 Journalism has always been a mixed bag.

[@oahujuniorgolfassociationc6656]

True dat

[@leondalegardens]

South Africa is in the southern hemisphere, he was born in winter.

[@lm_b5080]

mate i've had several discussions with americans where they're pretty surprised to find out that the weather and season is the opposite from theirs in the southern hemisphere. their education system skips a few things

[@lucasbrown2656]

@@lm_b5080no they don’t skip it, I know this and I’m from America, the issue is most Americans can’t pay attention without action packed shit going on lol. They think of history and science as a Michael bay movie for some reason.

[@chriscotton4207]

@@lm_b5080 Christmas music in July? Only in Australia! They celebrate in the summer! I heard this before and I was perplexed enough where I just had no words. I figured you may like this quote from a college graduate in America.

[@Raderade1-pt3om]

@@lm_b5080 no wdym opposite

[@lm_b5080]

@@Raderade1-pt3om if its winter in the southern hemisphere, its summer in the northern hemisphere. earth has 2 hemispheres, the USA is a country in the northern hemisphere

[@3TNT3]

How Monsters are made. Parents and teachers, do NOT let your children / students bully others!!!!

[@andychow1970]

"The patents were not copyrighted" - that statement makes no sense.

[@jaykayin]

That's right you cannot patent the copyright to my book!. Patent-free Books!

[@delasias9153]

It does make sense. Copyright & patents serve different purposes.

[@jaydy71]

​@@delasias9153 Sure they have different purposes, but that statement still doesn't make sense, or at least it was not what was meant. Patents are by nature not subject to copyright restrictions.

[@Shouwr]

​@@jaydy71 likely, it was just an error in writing.

[@ExploringCabinsandMines]

Rubes dont understand the difference between copyrights and patents.

[@adisario]

The pandemic was the pivot. He HATED that the government could tell his employees to stay home.

[@jamesconner3437]

Pretty difficult to assemble things from home. Especially cars and rockets. The neighbors are not gonna like it.

[@yex666]

Is the first video? I’m very disappointed in so far they’ve been good honest unbiased.. how do you do your research and not know that his pivot point was Covid? I love how you says I don’t know what he’s thinking so it will be on for me to assume. And when he starts talking about Twitter, that’s exactly what he does. Come on Johnny do better!

[@arun279]

esp since other automakers had already resumed production lines but since most of tsla domestic production was in california at the time, he was at the mercy of local unelected officials who had different ideas than Detroit counterparts.

[@BeaverChainsaw]

@@jamesconner3437come on now, if Tony Stark could build an iron man suit in a cave from a box of scraps, I’m sure Elon Musk could do it! He always wanted to be like Tony stark

[@c87kim]

Uh yeah… the govt shouldn’t be telling any of us how to run our business or live our lives

[@wimpieeeeee]

He should have named his perfume "Elon's Musk"

[@Alx-gj2uz]

That one got me with my guard down 😂

[@DrNoSpectre]

Sounds stinky

[@Breadcrumbsstylelol]

60% of the time, it works every time

[@lildubuoy]

You've been sitting on this one for a while haven't you?

[@norah4892]

Please, don't give him ideas😂

[@pijoo_213]

The most insightful part for me was the part about Elon's childhood. It seems like that horrible treatment from his peers and his own father screwed with his emotional development, and left him literally scarred for life. Maybe he didn't have anyone to look up to regarding kindness and empathy. I do appreciate that he wants to do so much for humanity, but it seems because of his past he genuinely doesn't know how to care for actual, specific human individuals. He doesn't know how to be emotionally vulnerable, and that probably hurts him too.

[@Sap3r3Aud3]

You could have stopped at «I’ve grown tired of hearing the name Elon Musk».

[@ancientslav4863]

cope

[@Synoopy2]

@@ancientslav4863 nope

[@shadrachemmanuel1720]

Ikr.😂

[@dadanardi5541]

I feels the same by the way, people overrated him and misunderstood how he got into success. He is more of a business than an inventor/thinker, he is more Edission that he is to Tesla.

[@Ed-ty1kr]

And what kind of youtube content would that be? He already clickbaited you, what more do ya want?

[@callipysapricots5531]

Much of this analysis is difficult to reference or qualify because it describes Elon or his conduct in abstract terms. I appreciate that brevity requires generalizations, but there’s a whole lot of psychoanalysis with barely any qualification. As a lawyer I also got set off 17 different ways by the statement that his patents weren’t copyrighted and that explains their being open-source + publicly accessible. This is incoherent, it’s common knowledge that patents and copyrights are completely separate forms of IP protecting different aspects of a work - a “copyrighted” patent doesn’t mean anything. Besides, patents are always publicly accessible, which doesn’t say much to a patent-holder’s charitability. If Elon liberally licensed or otherwise gave away his companies’ patent rights that would be noteworthy, but there is no reason to spend money and resources on getting a patent if you are simply going to give it away - so I assume this didn’t happen as described. I appreciate this might seem nitpicky, but I’m not describing a complex legal technicality, and to the extent that the thesis of this video essay is based on such generalized facts that are either ambiguous or blatantly wrong, I can’t say I learned much of anything concrete except what Johnny Harris thinks of Elon Musk’s mindset. How to convey information in an essay is a personal choice, but I find such basic mistakes to be a gross journalistic oversight. Nevertheless, I appreciate the effort and hope to catch you on a train stop some other time! Toodles! :P

[@aryanchaudhary4400]

Teach me law, seriously.

[@wildbear2472]

Thank you for the insight on patents vs. copyrights. Regarding trying to assess some of Elon Musk's conduct, I don't it's a matter of abstraction. For example...when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked, and then Elon shared a link to a conspiracy theory website that lied about it, and then Elon later deleted the tweet without correcting the misinformation...that is just bad behavior. A man with one of the biggest platforms in the world (artificially boosted by him) should be even more careful about spreading lies. In addition, if he allows someone onto the platform that outrageously lies (e.g. Alex Jones), he then becomes complicit in spreading the lies. I'm not saying Elon is an evil dude. Like everyone else, he's a mix of good and bad. But one of the things that bothers me about free speech absolutionists like him (other than hypocrisy) is how some view free speech as this moral ideal, and then go on to express themselves in bad ways (lies, misinformation, etc.). Regarding freedom, humanity would fare better if we remember the counsel of Viktor Frankl (paraphrased): next to the Statue of Liberty, should be built the Statue of Responsibility.

[@VideoKillah]

It's not nitpicky of you, that's the basic critical thinking Johnny missed on this video because he just doesn't have the time for those details. Most people who are into tech and culture just don't care about the legal details.

[@wildbear2472]

Thank you for the insight on patents vs. copyrights. Regarding trying to assess some of Elon Musk's conduct, I don't think it's a matter of abstraction. For example...when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked, and then Elon shared a link to a conspiracy theory website that lied about it, and then Elon later deleted the tweet without correcting the misinformation...that is just bad behavior. A man with one of the biggest platforms in the world (artificially boosted by him) should be even more careful about spreading lies. In addition, if he allows someone onto the platform that outrageously lies (e.g. A. Jones), he then becomes complicit when Alex spreads misinformation. I'm not saying Elon is a really bad guy. Like everyone else, he's a mix of good and bad. But one of the things that bothers me about free speech absolutionists like him (other than hypocrisy) is how some view free speech as this moral ideal, and then go on to express themselves in bad ways (lies, misinformation, etc.). Regarding freedom, humanity would fare better if we remember the counsel of Viktor Frankl (paraphrased): next to the Statue of Liberty, should be built the Statue of Responsibility.

[@grantwatson3824]

"most of this analysis is difficult to reference..." Seriously? Sources were referenced throughout, or shown to us directly, like Musk's own words. Did you perhaps sleep through some of the post?

[@SeaBassTian]

Very insightful but you forgot the part where he tried to back out of buying Twitter then the courts forced him to go through with the deal!

[@290revolver290]

Exactly! That was definitely intentional, among other things. That way most people can label Musk a bad guy.

[@whatacrazyride1658]

Yeah, I guess the fact that Twitter misrepresented the number of Bots that were members in their estimates wasn't of enough of an issue to give Elon at the very least a more accurate valuation number to overpay for the privileged. Or maybe, his discovery during the standard kinds of due diligence in buying a public company showed some kind of drama with the Federal Government that would have to be cleaned up or lived up to, might have made him a tad more hesitant, once the final show and tells we're going on. The Bots alone should have drastically reduced his buying price, and the only reason the stock price held when it was announced was the offer on the table..... Jesus that court order could have gone the distance had he wanted it to.

[@ashesmandalay1762]

@@whatacrazyride1658 Elon pretended to want to buy Twitter in order to get access to that kind of info so he could publicly reveal it, prove his assertions that his critics were bots for months right, and back out of the deal. Elon didn't find anything like that, which is why he was forced to go through with the sale.

[@lindadonald348]

@@whatacrazyride1658he offered without diligence, sold as seen, in Delaware courts thats a slam dunk

[@milescoleman910]

Same judge tried to stop his agreed upon pay structure earlier this year. Citing the time he spent at Twitter as a reason he doesn’t deserve a paycheck from his own company after increasing its value 1000 percent or so. The dude is different. Says dumb things. Does amazing things. And when you compare him to other people worth billions he is a clear outlier.

[@J720X-L]

The problem with Johnny Harris: He keeps trying to sell me useless stuff like VPNs.

[@janak132]

As an autistic person myself (diagnosed), I think Musk sounds like what happens when an autistic person with relatively high self focus/"other people are means" understanding (like my daughter) also is rich enough that he can get away with it, only having to care about the sanction of law, but not social rules. Most relatively severely affected autists only want to do, in fact only manage to do, what they like to do. My daughter has a kind heart, but if she wants to spend time gaming she will not be able to take other people's plans/situations/almost anything else into account. It is not hat she doesn't care, just that the urge to do what she want to do is so much stronger. I can moderate her when necessary, but only because she has to rely on me for certain things. Musk doesn't have to rely on any specific person. He can replace them. This also shows in how he treat his girlfriends. He is rich and single sided; either he gets it his way or they're out. They even have to sign a girlfriend contract. He is in a position where he can't be forced out of his autistic mode, so he only gets more locked into his way being the right way, regardless of what anyone else say. Remember; I'm an autistic person (diagnosed). I know that if we get moderated in a good way, we can learn to moderate ourselves healthily. at least to some extent. This has never happened to Musk. He doesn't moderate himself unless he sees that it would give him an advantage.

[@maramclaine830]

YES ! One of our New Bohemian HumanX talents Hyper focus. And it's also Kryptonite for others and at times ourselves. I AM Nuero divergent what is called a High Masking Autistic Woman. I am Gifted in Language and pattern recognition. I got kicked out of my first Organization at age 4. Kindergarten didn't appreciate me Tryon to teach the other children to read. Then Ballet, I have Spatial disabilities can't tell R from L. Made up my own dancing. Then Girl Scouts for punching the leaders daughter that's when I learned about racial hate. Then the Choir and eventually public High school. I took over 500 students out with me too on a protest. My last flaming arrow. I AM a person with unusually high empathy. If not I could have done a GREAT deal of damage. I have little Inhibition nor fear response.

[@Trey-TV]

What if this is just normal? Could that truly be the case?

[@jo0ls_dee]

@@Trey-TV define normal

[@Ryanlexz]

john harris think san Francisco is a Conservatism place lmao

[@jered877]

He ponders things carefully, so your analysis is flawed. He just arrives at different conclusions, and yes how others feel in the moment isn’t high on his concerns in an eventual decision.

[@andrewhambling]

Will Johnny be doing this type of personal analysis of all mega rich billionaires? How about one on Jeff Bazos next?

[@HandleHandleson]

Or Zuck..

[@KommKarl]

No, because liberal leftist mega rich are good people and conservative right wing ones are evil according to liberal leftist people.

[@charlestaylor3195]

Bezos is one of those "You go first" kind of guys.

[@simonjones4855]

I think people would surprised by how boring a Bezos or Zuckerburg video would be.

[@jerrstubbs439]

Right

[@R4ks0]

Bro I don't think even Elon Musk can glaze himself as much as Johnny just did... He omits so much of his early history that no wonder he is confused about how Musk "changed"

[@DeMesstados]

Which early history?

[@yiin]

@@DeMesstados probably the fact that he was basically fired from PayPal as his management was ruining the company

[@DeMesstados]

@@yiinnah. There were disagreements in strategy and the board ousted him. PayPal under Musk was incredibly successful. This thing happens all the time. Steve Jobs was ousted. The Uber guy was ousted… just a part of business

[@rafal5992]

Wise minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

[@stevencolby3279]

*weak

[@DIRTBIKE74]

😂😂😂 yet this guy may make more money than 10 of us combined. It is doing research and talking about the right people who put him towards the top of your list.

[@cinhh]

Do you have the telefax number of Mrs Roosevelt? Tell her, some greek fāggōt called Socrates copied her kickass quote.

[@rafal5992]

@@DIRTBIKE74 who cares how much $ he makes. Clearly he makes $ talking trash about people who actually have done and doing something to change this world for better instead of talking trash just to make a living like him

[@rafal5992]

​@@cinhhthanks for spending your time on reading my post. Happy to know that thanks to me a few seconds of your life were not wasted

[@brenohds]

Fun fact, I'm watching this video using Starlink ❤

[@johnnyharris]

Haha awesome

[@thomasmagaha280]

You and me both brotha 💪

[@StarlordStavanger]

gross

[@baronvonbarbeque]

​@@johnnyharris cheers for this one. I'm watching this from a "borrowed" starlink connection from my neighbor. Don't tell him.

[@BarrGC]

​@StarlordStavanger Right, the potential for every single person on earth to have access to high speed internet is "gross"....

[@RSI24]

As a long time Musk admirer, I have since pulled admiration for him 6 years ago when I found out he was not a creator of anything he said he did

[@DanMarcotte-qg4xo]

Lmao! Where did you find that out?

[@michaelb9940]

@@DanMarcotte-qg4xoif you study it from the beginning you’ll know why! He’s a good delegator but that’s about it!

[@dlewis895]

TOTALLY AGREE. RESEARCH FACT CHECK GOOGLE IT. MUSK REPEATEDLY GETS INVOLVED IN WHAT INTERESTS HIM.THEN GETS MORE INVOLVED HIS EGOMANIA REPEATEDLY DEMANDS FULL CREDIT FULL POWER YOU SEE THIS REPEATED MUSKS PLAYBOOK. TRUMP. WATCH YOUR BACK MUSK NOT PRESIDENT? MUSK USA CEO

[@lenu617]

Which one? Paypal, the video game? Tesla? Solar city?

[@lenu617]

​@@michaelb9940so he can't be praised or admired as a good delegator?

[@stap1er]

Johnny didn't realise you're not supposed to go by the PR material when researching someone lol

[@ftt2757]

Well I'm at 50% of video and I hear Elon PR guy and nothing more

[@heck3143]

Yeah even the emerald mine stuff. He didn't own it, but his dad has a stake in a Zambian emerald mine. Elon brought them to school to flex. Saying it's totally false without mentioning that feels straight up dishonest. I found that IN the Snopes fact check they used.

[@thinkordie2012]

His childhood story sounds like he's fabricated.

[@LarsGsanger]

Well, he is! A total fraud like Einstein🍏

[@chriscolgan120]

Pov worlds richest guy falls into crippling media addiction

[@JonCollier-jr1fx]

He sold more E trucks than ford and chevy, launched more rockets that all other countries combined, used Starlink to help Ukraine, Starlink provides internet to the most desolate places on earth. Creating jobs for hundreds of thousands across the world, saved HK Battery company and all the jobs they provided, making renewable energy possible with the powercells he produces, first reusable rocket, took America back to space on our own soil. BUT, he lets people say whatever they want without censoring them on X. He must be evil........FFS. Be humble and take an L ever now and then, It will make you understand the world better. You might make some friends along the way.

[@intiorozco5063]

The brainrot got to him.

[@kokushibyō-f9i]

@@intiorozco5063 It wasn't when he was dating super young actresses, marrying and divorcing them multiple times ...twitter did it. >.>

[@raypatson8775]

Lol love Elon but that's funny 😁

[@xryanv]

That isn't the case he just has different values than the people who disagree with him.

[@invisiblecollege893]

Its very strange how quite a lot of people form their opinions from media headlines instead of listening to the person actually speak in long form

[@justdiane5]

Yes, because a lot of people have the attention span of a gnat

[@dfdf-rj8jr]

@@justdiane5 So American liberals? Like Johnny Harris?

[@Jonathan-ex3sl]

@@dfdf-rj8jr grow up. smart people can disagree with you and still be smart.

[@BreakneckTrent]

Tis the times.. Attention span... SQUIRREL! 👀

[@dfdf-rj8jr]

@@Jonathan-ex3sl Yes, and what makes you think the OG commenter was smart?

[@aidankenny2218]

At 32:10 i thought he was about to say Twitter wasn’t being censored by governments and i almost spit out my drink

[@TheCaj2012]

No replies?

[@Lokeydin7]

People and governments do try and censor as much as they can, its just that simple.

[@miller1240]

@@TheCaj2012 They are being censored by the government.

[@Boldwine]

@@TheCaj2012 no need

[@stevemartin7464]

I would have too, what happened at Twitter pre-Musk is abomnible, this makes me wonder about this video; if he does one on what was being done at twitter before Mr Musk bought it I would feel a bit better; do a comparison. Also, where do you get some of your stats? Like the 85% one?

[@sabsterblaster]

Am I the only one who thinks Elon is really an alien???

[@VLove-CFII]

He didn’t spend 44bn dollars to censor himself.

[@lolzu]

He doesn't have to. But boosting himself artificially doesn't make him good

[@B.D.E.]

And yet he does censor himself, at least when the Chinese Communist Party demands it anyway.

[@Jonathan-gi7df]

@@lolzu sure but he created fact-checkers, which correct his account very often, so this image of him being immune to critics is simply not true

[@KingTies]

@@Jonathan-gi7df Very late very often. after it was already seen by thousands

[@lolzu]

@Jonathan-gi7df no he didn't, it just got initialised after he came in. it was an existing idea in development for a while. I've also been on twitter long enough to see those community notes get removed in less than 24 hours, or Elon removing the post totally. Multiple incidents of this happening. Especially when he falsely called a Thai diver who rescued a football team a pedo, or that time he reinstated an account that openly posted CP. (TWICE. IT HAPPENED TWICE.) Those two incidents I've mentioned have directly been reported on by multiple news outlets. So you can easily Google it.

[@maracbubamarac]

Antozent- they are selling around 150 self help books for the price of one (you’re welcome)

[@Warclimb64]

If you read 150 self help books you're gonna really need help

[@michaelslater6839]

Think of the money you will make if you worked hard instead of spending the time to read 150 books… You’re Welcome 😊

[@NutellaCrepe]

@@michaelslater6839 Think of how much more money you can make if you even read a few of those books to help you become more productive. Then think of the happiness you can achieve when you find time to read a few more.

[@ZoldicsDiaries]

Just as Elon announced he would be supporting Trump's republican this election- CIA stooge 'Johnny Harris' is obviously NOT happy with this.!!

[@TheCamps10]

3k likes for a completely unrelated comment. Never let anyone convince you that the internet isn't plagued with bots.

[@nitinagarwal4416]

You missed the most important part. He changed after covid lockdowns when his company was shut down by Democratic Party in California. He was also against COVID guidelines by the government. He probably shifted to right after that.

[@rob8311]

Def not. He was always like this, he just had better PR back then. The mask came off so to speak

[@nitinagarwal4416]

@@rob8311 I don’t think he is a PR guy. He is definitely an attention seeker and does all his tweets himself. Also he wasn’t political before COVID. He only used to talk about rockets, Cars, AI and his companies. I have been following him since 2014-15. I used to be his fan before he bought twitter and turned into a maniac

[@martyconsidine8628]

He also missed the SEC strong arming him. That's what did it. He literally sheds tears in an interview explaining the event.

[@proudlakerfan]

He shifted to the right because of his transgender child. He said he wants to end wokeness because of what happened to his child.

[@John-wu4rc]

He also forgot to include the way he acquired those companies he cofounded. Apart from the first one none of the others were his idea. He had money so he bought them. If you actually go in-depth into how he ran those companies you will see how much of a clown he actually is. He almost messed up PayPal until he got fired. Still trying to create his all purpose finance hub till this day.

[@danielbarrero2815]

I completely agree with you.

[@business-advice-that-works]

When you said, "He chose the storm of all storms," and EDM music started playing, my mind immediately thought, "No way, he became an EDM artist???" Mostly because im listening to this instead of watching.

[@greenesttea3687]

lol u goof

[@DJPastaYaY]

Haha that would be cool though

[@ZoldicsDiaries]

Just as Elon announced he would be supporting Trump's republican this election- CIA stooge 'Johnny Harris' is obviously NOT happy with this.!!

[@business-advice-that-works]

@@DJPastaYaYthe funny part is I just clicked on this video again and was reading the comments. Saw this one and thought it was funny. Then I saw that it was me haha

[@DJPastaYaY]

@@business-advice-that-works Even better! hah

[@doctorpazz]

"boss can be a total asshole" - said every employee ever

[@haarpvalencia]

Not really...he overworks his employees, including making them work during the pandemic, completely gaslighting them. He does not interfere when non-white workers get bullied and in fact his posts encourage it

[@iamhereblossom1588]

Nope some are cool.

[@oliviac3077]

nope, my boss is lovely

[@houserhythm]

I've been with my current company for 13 years, had 6 different bosses during this time and I wouldn't say that about a single one of them.

[@FrankCastle-h9s]

Maybe yours is?

[@boinksi]

There’s a lot of details missing from the X/Twitter section of this video…

[@16ktsgamma]

Not to mention missing details of the Cyber Truck and the sportster for Telsa.

[@ZeusTalks]

Yes this is honestly pretty biased and badly researched

[@jamestidwell]

Yeah and how you can’t make the connection of everything he does and then buying twitter with alterior motives and naming it X is almost willfully negligent . They put it in our face. The esoteric value of X. As above so below. Triangle pointing up and triangle pointing down. There’s two X’s on your screen now. What do they do. Exit out of comments and exit out of video. So the richest man in the world whos apart of an elite club who believe the world is over populated catapults the vehicle industry into electric vehicles wants to use a company the government used to wield power? Now China is set to have the best and most affordable Electric vehicles. He now backs Trump who started a trade war with Chinas while he helps Ukraine fight its proxy war with Russia. Wake up. Order out of chaos.

[@frankvazquez5974]

@@ZeusTalks You need to be more specific than that. He has presented an incredible amount of FACTS and RESEARCH. Where is yours? That is how genuine academic dialogue functions. Please engage if you are actually able.

[@Jackson_Zheng]

@@frankvazquez5974 Where's the facts? News articles with contradictory quotes and a research paper than did a study over a span of only a couple months? Did you even read the sources he provided in the description yourself?

[@truending]

It is normal that Elon has a lot of haters. His portrayal here shows the haters only. But he has a lot of admirers as well. I am one of them.

[@mmoonnkkeeyy]

Elon is like a teenager in his 40s who just discovered 4chan

[@jesse_-]

There is no shortage of teens in their 40s. They are called liberals.

[@smiler9028]

He’s such a bratty man child

[@smiler9028]

He’s such a bratty man child

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Does this cite support free speech? Many of my clean comments were goned. Signed, an intelligent Conservative.

[@alexg9727]

cope

[@elituttle8798]

Sorry, you'd mentioned Starlink & Ukraine, but you didn't finish that topic.

[@NotADuncon]

This story is full of surface level reporting. It's the worst researched story from Johhny because it seems to me he doesn't want to dig too deep because he starts courting a specific viewer - first Joe Rogan, now this.

[@andriib9390]

​@@NotADuncon So what will he find if he digs deeper?

[@NotADuncon]

@@andriib9390 for example Elons first company was saved by his moms friend who hired to fix elons horrible code and then sell the company. Without that man the company would not be sold and Elon would not make his first big cash. Elons X also didn't become paypal it merged with paypal which was a larger company. Elon was outsted as a CEO of Paypal since he was mismanaging the hell out of it. Starlink is a topic for a very long treatese.

[@counterguardian6145]

I think that's in the Ukraine video...

[@pouya8638]

​@@NotADuncon its about Elon not Ukrainian

[@laviefu0630]

Pls make the same kind of video for Mark Zuckerberg, how he acuqired Instagram...and so on

[@SonnyDarvish]

Please continue with KZbin.. oh wait!

[@jaguaranmusk3703]

Sorry, he is a fellow Jew !

[@TKUA11]

Whataboutism arguments much?

[@laviefu0630]

@@TKUA11 I understand where you're coming from, but I still think Mr. Zuckerberg deserves a thorough check-up.

[@jacobstevens7046]

​@@TKUA11...Or they enjoyed the video and thought it would be interesting to see a similar breakdown of other rich guys.

[@samsantucci1044]

Obsession of any kind is very dangerous!

[@Cartermadeit]

You mean a court in Delaware forced him to honor his verbal and technically written contract to buy Twitter, right?

[@sarkaranish]

was good enough for elon to pay up anyways.

[@kingace6186]

Sounds like a legally-enforceable contract to me.

[@khalidhasanasif2619]

Yet, same court did not honor his rightful pay package.

[@scbond]

He made an offer, it was accepted, he tried to back out as he clearly just wanted to kick up a fuss, they took him to court and he was forced to honour the offer to purchase, he took over and then he laid half the staff off as some sort of bizarre punishment. The guy is an absolute prick.

[@ivanrocks2227]

@@scbond He got rid of the useless bums who were just doing TikToks all day what kind of a punishment is that? That is a business not a charity

[@elijahmurray1314]

Man just read Walter Isaacson’s biography and then acted like he did a ton of research.

[@zamplify]

Yes this is Illuminaughty level bullshit.

[@NLZource]

Honestly, you'd understand better only if you uses twitter more often. Just seems like a propaganda sponsored to be done against Musk

[@caseyp.4796]

I was born in for a fast little watch I found it informative. But I do have to say I was a little disappointed I thought at first he was for Elon musk and then it turns out at the end he was like against him

[@TOPNOTCH80]

And then also left out that a huge reason Elon hates liberals is because of the situation with his transgender child.

[@berthageorge2627]

🤔

[@primedeviation]

You somehow forgot to mention community notes. Why?

[@TKUA11]

Because that doesn’t take away from his point of censoring people he doesn’t like and that he loves to cave to authoritarian states

[@apeblackberry3641]

@@TKUA11 Twitter did the same except it was way worse. Lefties tasting their own medicine is a sweet feeling.

[@ExtremistOnboard]

Because of Johnny Harris' bias.

[@javiervasquez8797]

Community notes is imo the greatest “innovation” for sharing and distributing news on social media.

[@SolRC]

@@javiervasquez8797 you mean letting the popular people do your work for you instead of the nerds. You are short of critical thinking skills, any community notes ever tell you that?

[@nstv23]

Buying x was always about his political career

[@jankarloxsanchez1164]

He cares for humanity, but only the humans that he likes. The rest can be thrown under the bus

[@theantianimeassociation7574]

I think it’s more so he cares about himself, his celebrity image, his ego and pride. I’m sure he started off caring for humanity, but like most people the celebrity status likely made it easy for his pride and ego to take control of his actions and thoughts.

[@erictheredguy]

Why does everyone get it wrong.. elon did NOT start paypall he was bought by paypall and had the contract written to SAY hes a founder

[@ankitsonariya918]

You've done months of research and it just hit you while shooting that The Boring Company is named after what it does?

[@Dre_Gonzales]

Yup that part looked really scripted.

[@Medabee8]

I had no idea that's what the Boring company was hahaha

[@catalin612]

it's just bad acting like most of the video

[@taylorroos4414]

Yea that was hard to take. its like a 2second deduction for someone with a a 90 or higher IQ

[@elowine]

Looking at the rate these video's come out it's very unlikely he does all the research himself. They are well told pieces but they feels a bit dishonest at times.

[@tariqbashir173]

Power corrupts Absolute power corrupts absolutely… fits perfectly with EM

[@TreforTreforgan]

I mean, there’s two Elons. There’s Elon Skywalker and there’s Elon Vader.

[@rlarno]

I have stated it differently, there was Anakin, and now we have Vader.

[@TreforTreforgan]

@@rlarno I’ve just run this passed my mother and she says the way I said it was way better.

[@dardale9050]

Everyone, even you has a Skywalker and Vader as far as influences on each shoulder, but everyone cannot do what Elon can do, so he must be doing many things right and for many good causes. Critics are usually, only the Vader part!

[@TreforTreforgan]

@@dardale9050 you sound like a Stormtrooper

[@ArtScienceWonder]

​@@rlarnoOooh nOoo thats such a good comparison and I'm over here like Padme Amidala hoping he'll come back and change. #facepalm

[@omidnorozi5921]

That's free speech if you have 44 billion dollars.

[@namei8967]

What is "that"?

[@omidnorozi5921]

@@namei8967 the fact that he boost's his own account to get more reach on his own 44 billion dollars company.

[@namei8967]

@@omidnorozi5921 first, how does he boost his own account? Second, why he needs "get more reach" when he already has had a few dozen million fans? Third, why he needs to spend 44 million dollars to have free speech when his any speeches were attracting huge attention over the world?

[@omidnorozi5921]

@@namei8967 you haven't watched the video,have you? He said elon after buying x gathered 100 engineers to boost his account in x so he could reach to All. I say he paid 44 billion dollars not millions to buy x, it's his company he can do whatever he wants with it. If he wants to boost his account he has every right to do so.

[@namei8967]

@@omidnorozi5921 you still don't answer my questions. Even with 1000 engineers, how to boost his account? Any his words can draw world attention in most platforms, why he needs to pay 44 billions?

[@oliversissonphone6143]

Saying he made his patents "open source" is misleading. All patents are open for the public to read. They're free, but only free if you let them use all your patents or something.. there's a lot on the internet about this.

[@YmirAsta]

You comment itself is misleading too!? So what’s your point

[@ptotheetother]

I love your historical content, and relations between countries and your overall storytelling skills. But you are some what drawn more to the left, which makes me lose interest in the channel. I believe you should be entitled to portrait your videos in the way you want. I just don't like that you try to make us believe you are making neutral content, when you aren't. I don't you realize it yourself.

[@YmirAsta]

Does tingle down there because the truth hurts

[@dwayne2871]

And ladies and gentlemen this is why bullying is bad.

[@funnyandrew]

Actually this makes bullying seem very very good

[@ThanaBrunges-mx7ji]

@@funnyandrewElon was bullied and he became a bully, Elon was bullied by his father and badly needs therapy, instead he has developed a fetish for having multiple children with multiple women… I hope he will get the therapy he needs one day…but I don’t hold out much hope for that becoming a reality…😢

[@erikaskag]

We gettin banned from X with this one

[@deleted01]

X doesn't ban for things like this. That's the beauty of it

[@karankapoor2701]

He isn't from the Biden administration

[@Jasper_Pascoe]

@@deleted01 Brother did *not* watch the video

[@johnnyharris]

im uploading to x right now. we'll see

[@OGRustinMac]

Atta boy johnny

[@galinswigart]

The first two titles on this video weren't getting the numbers you hoped, or..?

[@sarpsays]

Lol

[@hshsgjakanss]

What were they? This seem so bias and Johnny is starting to seem like hes sold his soul

[@petpaltea]

He, like every other big KZbinr, changes title and tumbnail picture on hourly basis at the start of every upload. His team watches the performance of each and keep the one with most engagement. Everyone does this.

[@elenabob4953]

​@@petpalteaSo it is not about information but about bombastic titles and content that could get the desired attention. How "nice"

[@frankvazquez5974]

@@petpaltea That is a nice pro tip. Thanks.

[@dermosquitor9984]

I see his purchase of twitter in a whole new light. This was very informative.

[@barebones9]

"FREE SPEECH", a good banner, but does Elon tolerate free speech from his employees. Not for a second, all for ONE.

[@RyNiuu]

Looks like you talked to a lot of his employees XDDDDD so awkward as there are so many interviews of former and present. So you are mostly wrong. However, in the end, there are times where this is exactly the role of CEO. There are countless examples of companies failing due to their CEO being incapable of a firm word while not being surrounded by competent employees (effect of the very same CEO). People thinking that his companies are successful despite Elon are simply delusional.

[@SebSN-y3f]

Confirmation bias is not feared in science and aviation for no reasons, because it quickly leads to serious misjudgments.

[@ArrotasHome-db7nw]

i bet the you ... try leaving a job and speeck against you former employee!!! your life will go south! if you dont like your job/boss, the just leave

[@markjapan4062]

FREE SPEECH IN YOUR HOME ONLY NO ONE ELSE CARES

[@badmaniak]

Everybody applaud to Steve Jobs, who did NOTHING and only commanding others. Elon Musk is stressfull, but he can make things cheaper and better than others. And he have thousands of employes (Jobs had few, even under ten individuals), so nobody should feel bullied. IF he will wuestion you, you will not see him for a year (because he has to question the other thousand). ;)

[@raghuramanrajendran2907]

Just a quick correction - When you're talking about India, at 36:49, the documentary was about the Prime minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, not the presidemt

[@ZoldicsDiaries]

Just as Elon announced he would be supporting Trump's republican this election- CIA stooge 'Johnny Harris' is obviously NOT happy with this.!!

[@EricTheRea]

If you're looking for carefulness with facts, you're on the wrong channel.

[@Beckywiththegoodhair9]

Think about this: I worked for Kroger as a cashier for 31 years. There was a strict rule that we were not to talk about politics with customers. Why? Because it's bad for business. Yet, Musk decides to buy Twitter and make it into a blatantly conservative outlet. So he's pissing off the most of the people who would actually buy his electric cars. Left leaning people care about the environment. Yet Elon has hooked his wagon to Trump, whose campaign worships the use of fossil fuels. Between him and Trump, I'm beginning to wonder how damn stupid you have to be to become wealthy.

[@spacefun101]

Seems to be working. It’s possible that because Teslas are expensive, so maybe his sales were plateauing since the people who could afford it and wanted electric all had it. Plus now many car companies sell electric cars. By appealing to wealthy conservatives who haven’t bought the car, he could make more sales, and those customers might be less likely to buy from other brands that don’t appeal to them. This is all speculation of course. He might just be rich enough it doesn’t matter. Being openly political can lose you customers sure, but it could also gain you even more loyal customers. I mean he probably went from just some rich guy who made cars and rockets, to someone an entire political party idolizes. You really don’t see this with other rich people like Bezos or Gates.

[@imagomonkei]

You have to be profoundly stupid and maliciously callous. If you care about other people, you don't make the decisions that raise your wealth. If you are intelligent, you'll be too aware of the externalities and long-term repercussions of your plans actions and make wiser choices.

[@ZimmZutinZayai]

More like Orwellian Conservatism. I'm ashamed of many of my fellow Americans right now.

[@Dilomight]

You ever think that it’s not about being stupid? Those customers may not matter to him anymore, he’s already way beyond wealthy and moving onto something else. He can afford to be inconsistent because of his wealth and now because of his hold on the government.

[@Beckywiththegoodhair9]

@Dilomight idk, in my experience, the mega wealthy don't want to lose a penny. It's just as easy to lose it all as it is to get it. Ask some people who won the lottery and are back to broke today. Trumps father and grandfather made Donald and the kids pick up nails at construction sites. That's how tight fisted they were. But hey, it's no skin off my butt if he's wealthy or poor. I don't have to see him or hear him. I can turn the TV or phone off.

[@angel878958778]

The definition of freedom is that your freedom stops where the freedom of another one begins. In this case, the one with the bigger "everything" has more freedom.

[@eugeniosilva7102]

The study on the algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter was funded and conducted by Twitter itself. The researchers involved were affiliated with Twitter, the University of Cambridge, University College London, and the University of California, Berkeley Not very biased imo

[@justinclark2818]

Yeah I think Johnny is a liberal lol

[@anonimous__user]

The results of that study are confirmed by at least three other independent studies

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

​@anonimous__user The study its self has issues around trying to define what tweets fall under what part of the political spectrum. It is an extremely subjective study, that also misses some key assertions.

[@anonimous__user]

@@wisemanofsorts6068 i understand. The topic itself is very tricky. Still, what the comment above was implying (that the study is biased because it was performed by people who worked at Twitter) can be dismissed because independent studies, performed by people who had nothing to do with Twitter, confirmed the results.

[@thewolfking5252]

What year was the study done? Censorship of the right on old twitter definitely ramped up for Donald trumps election and during Covid.

[@MosesKabandana]

I'll come back to this comment section with popcorns in about 8 hours. It's about to be fire!

[@kinglouis6974]

Errr hello you’ll be back soon !! Your comment was 7 hours ago Its Friday night in the uk 🇬🇧 Hmmmm this should be good

[@C5J9]

Trump shot

[@derpett9999]

How was it?

[@anuragsinha2013]

Next do... Who is the real Johnny Harris? Here are, the problems with Johnny Harris...

[@mrteagg]

Keep yapping, average musk enjoyer.

[@anuragsinha2013]

@@mrteagg I'm not Musk fan nither do I believe in Johnny Harris but you should look up Tom Nicholas Johnny Harris video, and specially read the comment section in that video.

[@anuragsinha2013]

@@mrteagg Most people when they are making a Who is an Elon Musk video (or who is bill gates or George Soros videos), basically they want move the conversation in a direction where they want to tell you Elon is a bad guy, he's dangerous, and how much they hate him so you should hate him, that is just thier way of coping really hard.

[@anuragsinha2013]

Most people when they are making a Who is an Elon Musk video (or who is bill gates or George Soros videos), basically they want move the conversation in a direction where they want to tell you Elon is a bad guy, he's dangerous, and how much they hate him so you should hate him, that is just thier way of coping really hard.

[@DIckbricky]

@@anuragsinha2013 You get your info yotube comment sections huh? go buy a Cybertruck buddy

[@ontruthsside9293]

He's not addicted to conflict and crisis and drama... he grew up in it and expects it inherently and knows how to overcome it while making things better for others.

[@frankstipes4114]

Harry just cant see how biased the the industry is today, this is a new panorama

[@TheRealWinser]

He is part of the propaganda. He needs a mirror to see it.

[@finaltouch998]

Exactly

[@KatyYoder-cq1kc]

I wish someone would??

[@mangos3943]

No matter who is in charge of a social media company, all will have an underlying bias that will show in the content they push, allow, and/or censor. Its so hard and I wouldn't want to be the one to be in charge. However, there is absolute truth. In the Age of Information we have so many voices that it makes it almost impossible to tell what is the truth. In times past, what was true was only what you observed or experienced. Its so easy to wish for simpler times. Yet, no season is simple. Each chapter comes with its own perks/benefits and hardships.

[@Stadsjaap]

Interesting point. If you really do allow all voices, the truth gets lost in the noise. But if you censor out some of those voices, you can never be sure what remains is the truth.

[@justjc51]

The release of the Tesla patents was newer about getting the EV market to take off , it was more to stifle competition from anyone who could mass produce a Tesla Model S competitor. A key part in the terms of use, for Teslas patents, was that any use of them will give Tesla free access to use any patent owned by the user, both current and future, without paying royalties. This forced any established competitor to come up with solutions that in no way could be seen as infringing on a Tesla patent, delaying their entry in the market for years. The biggest looser, apart from the EV market, was AC Propulsion. They had deals with car companies to make electrified versions of the most popular models, but as Tesla patents were based on those AC Propulsion supplied to build the Roadster the risk of Tesla claiming that their patents were infringed upon ensured that these projects died soon after the "release" of the Tesla patents. The only winners, apart from Tesla who delayed competition, were the new mainly Chinese car manufacturers who had no patents to loose and now stands to take over the EV market and make sure that the US will not be a major car producing country in the future. All thanks to Elon Musk!

[@karlsatherley6184]

Established OEMs had the choice to access cutting edge technology and chose not to. If they had chosen to do so and shared their patents, everyone would have benefited from it. Since they chose not to, they will die and a new patent free system will emerge from the new Chinese companies. Patents slow progress

[@Ubasti20]

It's really intresting to note that China now has mostly electric cars on the road.

[@crayonsukrou913]

The fact that you expect Chinese EV manufacturer will be the winner because they have no patents to lose, means those patents which the "established car manufacturers" own do not worth that much anyway. They should follow suit and copy Musk/Tesla's move. They should allow everyone to use their patents freely with the exact same condition and arrangement.

[@Ben21756]

It’s a fair deal in my opinion, a start-up company with little experience can quickly gain access to cutting-edge technology patents at the cost of Tesla being able to do the same to them. In a way, this deal accelerates innovation through the sharing of patents, but of course most companies are not willing to give up their technological edge in other patents that they possess just to get on the same level as Tesla in terms of EV technology.

[@Piliponful]

It's called a genius move