I feel this is worth further discussion.
Coming up with a social media platform is going to be very difficult. You need good software and good hardware to carry that much data in various forms that often. So I can understand why someone would want to take shortcuts. I get it.
But this isn't plastering over a hole in your apartment sheetrock with toothpaste and hoping the super doesn't notice. THis is "people put their personal info on this thing" levels of important. Nobody who knows what they're doing should expect a basic framework they found on a free site, with a coat of paint, to be useful.
Just ask Jim Fucking Sterling Son.
Team Trump has to know this. The question is, what's their angle?
I suggested earlier they could pump and dump their stock, and I'm not ruling that out yet. But if they try to actually make something, yeah, if they just copy/paste something public, they shouldn't expect that to work very well very long -- with or without claiming they own it. Then there's the hardware, which Trump has been burning his bridges on that one and can't afford his own. And even if they do actually strive to make a worthwhile project, they have a time limit -- next year. They
physically can't get good enough, even if they're trying. Which nobody seems to believe.
I admit this could be a simple fleecing job, but unlike a PAC you can't just have people hand you money for a product and then...do nothing. That's called
income. So I'm discounting that for now, too.
My best remaining guess is, Trump wants this up and running as an excuse for people to pay for advertisements. The contract for the advertisement will say nothing about number of views, simply a flat fee for being online. That would end up short-term, but again, Trump is broke now and owes a lot. That might be enough.
I suppose he could be trying to milk some personal data, but I dunno, his fundraising site probably has all that.
I don't see a realistic long-term con that has any chance of working. What am I missing?