So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

It does seem to frame the question in a positive light for pedos. It is framing it like a transaction.

Granted I hope anyone hitting yes goes on a list like immediately. Also whoever asked the question should be on a list.

The tweet is laying out a (seedy) scenario and asking for people's opinions. The only way I could say it's putting pedophilia in a positive light is in the risk of normalising it by even asking the question out loud at all, but on the other hand you may not expose some dodgy attitudes if you don't ask the question. The user is framing it as a transaction because that's the scenario they're outlining, with money being involved and parental consent.

Should this question be allowed on Musk's Twitter? I would say 'yes' with some asterisks. Asterisk one - a NSFW/over 18 flag. Asterisk two - is there a suspicion that the user is deliberately trolling or 'just asking questions' in a bad faith sense? That second one would be a lot more of a grey area, as you don't truly know what's going through someone's head when they're posting something so provocative, but I suspect they know that there'd be at least as much debate about the validity of the question as there would about the scenario outlined.

It doesn't work like that unfortunately. He gets views, he gets followers, ultimately it only encourages it

Allowing extreme material generates more fringe material, some of which grows exponentially. For example, Google and Youtube used to freely allow conspiracy material on their sites - however it reached a stage whereby you'd look up the moon landings or 9/11 and get thousands of conspiracy hits rather than information.

Despite recent best efforts, the internet is still a major haven and megaphone for cranks, misogynists', charlatans, bigots, scammers, populists, quacks, you name it. Look at Elon, he's down a rabbit hole of anti-vax stuff and far-right material - all using "free speech absolutism" as an excuse to vent and highlight extreme views.

Big things coming in the next few years, to be fair these are Elon years we’re talking about.

Juat waiting for him to annouce the teleportation button that will be attached to X next and of course once it gets regulatory approval for our first human tests.

It’s a loaded question. Plus the request to disclose gender. It’s quite sinister.

I would have been fine with it 20 years ago. I mean we had phones and webcams were just coming out.

And there's a huge difference between brain surgery and a speaker with a mic.

Plus I hadn't heard loads of stories about monkeys dying because of the speakers. :)

I imagine the legal liability for a chip in your brain (or just somehow connected to your nervous system somehow) would be tricky to figure out. Would a US health insurer refuse to cover you if you had one fitted?

It's one thing killing monkeys (there's something deeply unpleasant about that kind of animal testing too, IMO) but having real live humans die, or have fits, or get dementia after having something like that fitted - yeah, can't see it happening.

Or if you ask it to play Christmas music once Halloween is over.

They'll probably refuse to cover you if you don't...