Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨aarRJaay@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

So. With Elon’s closeness with Trump and he’s desire for X to be the US’S ‘Everything App’, could he force any payment of taxes, goods and services to only go through X? Is this possible with his powers? Do you think it’s possible or likely to happen? I just envisage him making it mandatory for you to use it for everything and if you don’t, you’ll have to face fines or other consequences. (I’m from the UK so I may not understand how this might pan out, I just think he’s crazy enough and cozy enough with Elmo to force it).

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TsarVul@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He sure could. Did you know that USPS is technically a government-granted monopoly by way of the Government Express Statutes?

Drumpf could grant X (The everything App (Formerly Known As Twitter)) the same privileges. Maybe not directly, but ultimately it’d have the same result, if they created a service that routed payments through it, and forced citizens to use said service and then grant said service a monopoly.

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- mipadaitu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Guess it’s time to go back to cash only.
  
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Elmo has your tax data, he’ll just make it so that tax returns are filed through X 😀
  
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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It would be funny because I don’t think twitter has the server infrastruktur or the domain knowledge.

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- BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “Please insert envelopes of cash to our dowse-with-gasoline machine that only sometimes randomly sparks
  
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TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
He wants it to be America’s WeChat.

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- aarRJaay@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s what I was thinking - he now has the resources and clout to make it happen abut to FORCE it people by government decree
  
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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nothing is stopping him from issuing an EO. Will it stand up to a judge though?

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- aarRJaay@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That was part of what I was asking - I don’t know enough about how this all works in the US. So an EO could mandate it, but he’d need it to be aproved by a judge?
  
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  - slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    A judge doesn’t have to approve it. Of he does it, no doubt some payment gateway companies are going to challenge the order which is where the judge comes in.
    
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Lenient_vegetable@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It could well be you know. Trump is not tech saaavy and elon could push for it as its his dream. The thing to watch is Larry Ellison go look up everything he owns and what he is in control of.

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- MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The same Ellison who suggested surveillance will be used to make people behave?
  
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  - Lenient_vegetable@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thats the bunny yep. He owns a lot of media and news companies. And he is now i think contracted with government data gathering via the AI stuff a quick search will show ypu all the pies his sweatty fingers are in.
    
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notabot@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m sure he could and would. All he’d need to do is dictate that X is the only payment provider all government departments may use to improve ‘efficiency’.

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- aarRJaay@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes, that’s what I was thinking, then it’s a slippery slope to making everything have to go through it
  
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KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Banks would no sooner have him shot on fifth avenue

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- finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Elon has access to the Treasury, if banks want to receive government payouts they won’t have a choice.
  
  But yes, the banks are separate from the federal government, they’re mostly overseen by “the fed” which is a board of governors.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If they shot him on 5th avenue, he wouldn’t control the Treasury anymore, would he?
    
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Rhoeri@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Force?? I’d be willing to bet he won’t even have to ask.

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introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I mean he could and could try to force it, but if people were too stubborn to use it wouldn’t last long.

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- tehWrapper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Just make a payment for something to people and they only can claim it by signing up to use the everything app?
  
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NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Banks are not willing to shoot themselves in the ass for Trump. They would fight to the end to hold onto that sweet transaction money.

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thefactremains@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Trump had enough similarities with the anti-christ/beast without having to resort to silly numerology…
  
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  - MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.…
    
    It’s somewhat interesting to see how they align though
    
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MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“16And the second beast required all people small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, 17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark— the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18Here is a call for wisdom: Let the one who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.…”

Revelation 13:16-18

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