Key Points
- Ahead of his dialog with Trump, Musk stated X was below a DDoS assault.
- Musk additionally obtained a letter from the EU Commission relating to censoring the interview.
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s reside dialog on X Space from August 12 broke the Internet regardless of all threats and assaults.
Despite all of the inconveniences, Musk introduced a couple of minutes in the past by way of his X account that the mixed views of the dialog with Trump and the next dialogue by others totaled roughly 1 billion.
According to official knowledge, between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, Trump’s Space submit obtained 73 million views. During the identical interval, there have been 4 million posts about Musk and Trump’s dialog on X, producing a complete of 998 million views.
Combined views of the dialog with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent dialogue by different accounts now ~1 billion
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
X Hit by DDoS Attack
Ahead of his reside dialog with Trump, Musk shared a submit by way of X, explaining that the platform was below a DDoS assault.
He famous that they have been engaged on shutting it down, and within the worst case, the plan was to proceed with a smaller variety of reside listeners and submit the dialog later.
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault is a cybercrime that includes flooding a server with Internet visitors to forestall customers from accessing on-line providers and websites.
Technical points plagued the X Space. Musk and Trump have been scheduled to carry at 8 PM ET as numerous X customers complained that they weren’t capable of be a part of.
Musk managed to start the interview after 8:30 PM ET. Musk stated in the beginning of the dialog that as this huge assault illustrates, there’s a number of opposition to individuals simply listening to what President Trump has to say.
EU Commission Warns Musk
Also, yesterday forward of the reside interview, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton warned Musk by way of a letter that the reside stream with Trump might violate the Digital Services Act, and said that in case this occurs, the EU Commission won’t hesitate to make use of their full toolbox “if wanted to guard EU residents from severe hurt.”
Breton said by way of his X account that “with nice viewers comes higher duty.”
He famous that as there’s a threat of amplification of probably dangerous content material within the EU in reference to occasions with main audiences all over the world, he despatched the letter to Musk.
The tech mogul’s response to the letter got here additionally by way of X, and he stated that he actually wished to reply with a Tropic Thunder meme, however he would by no means do one thing so impolite and irresponsible.
Then, he proceeded with a brutal meme that learn, “Take a giant step again and actually f—okay your individual face.”
Also, X CEO, Linda Yaccariso said that the letter was an unprecedented try to stretch a legislation supposed to use in Europe to political actions within the US, patronizing European residents as properly, “suggesting they’re incapable of listening to a dialog and drawing their very own conclusions.”
Inflation Issues, Government Spending
During the reside dialog, Musk and Trump talked about extra important points, with crucial being the next:
- Cutting authorities spending
- Legal immigration
- Deregulation
- High-speed transit
- Nuclear power
- Sensible strategy to local weather change
Trump dedicated to Musk that he would create a “Government Efficiency Commision” led by him to chop the price and dimension of the Federal Government.
Trump additionally mentioned what Javier Milei is doing as Argentina’s president and stated that they may have the identical issues within the US quickly.
Also, in distinction to the censorship regimes all over the world, Musk told Trump that it’s apparent he’s a believer and an advocate of free speech.
He continued and instructed Trump that in his first time as President, he had been attacked relentlessly on daily basis, typically very unfairly with false assaults. But, as Musk stated, Trump didn’t attempt to shut down the media, nor inhibit their freedom of speech, which says so much.
August 12 additionally marked Trump’s return to X after a protracted hiatus.
