The Sack of Rome: Elon Musk’s Digital Coup
For a week, I’ve been savaged on X (which technologist Elon Musk, of course, co-owns), for urgently trying to warn people about what those few days in early February, 2025, when Elon Musk and five or six young engineers were alone with their devices plugged in to all our nation’s data, may represent. These few days represent a Rubicon that can never now be un-crossed, during which data and IP (intellectual property) captivation may have made Musk (and the people with whom he now allies) more powerful than any President, including more powerful than President Trump; more powerful than any nation-state, more powerful than the WEF and the WHO, more powerful than any prime minister, and more powerful than any other CEO or leader of any other set of corporations.
As thanks for my warnings, all with links and evidence, I’ve been called (on Musk’s X) a DNC shill, “controlled opposition”, “CIA,” a “libtard”, unpatriotic, and other epithets. I am not “controlled opposition”, “a DNC shill” or “CIA” and thankfully I am no longer a “libtard”; the former three claims are defamatory, while the latter is First- Amendment-protected speech. But since these are mostly bots and trolls (deployed by X’s algorithm), there is no one to sue.
Most genuine voices supportive of my efforts to warn the country, and Team Trump, I cannot see on X; an algorithm (controlled by Musk’s team) can do that – shadow-ban anyone, including anyone critical of Musk or of X.
So, like a weary would-be Paul Revere, though imagine him sans horse and almost sans a voice, I am taking to one of the last free speech platforms, to try to explain in non-techie language, for all US citizens; certainly for Team Trump — whose overall agenda I still support, if the coup by Silicon Valley can be un-f—-ed; for our elected representatives, and for the courts, none of whom speak the language of digital data — the layers of danger represented by the Sunday in February on which Musk and his engineers were alone with our records, with no real oversight and no secure firewalls.
You know me as a journalist and nonfiction writer and more recently, as an advocate against medical enslavement; but I am also CEO of a tech company, which I co-founded, called DailyClout.
It is successful. I worked with developers to build or improve three platforms, all based, like Musk’s DOGE targets, on government datasets: BillCam, which lets you see and share state and Federal bills; Communities, a surveillance- and censorship-free Facebook competitor; and Legisector.com, where you can access bills within your industry vertical.
I am not a coder. But from 13 years of working with our engineers and developers to build digital products based on government data, I understand the fundamentals of using government datasets, the protections around them, and the basics of IP and data security. I was also a political consultant to President Clinton’s team, and to Vice President Al Gore.
So, using both hats — digital and political — I see appalling red flags. I cannot believe that Team Trump understands these
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