mattfivefour
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Check out this perceptive article by Ben Shapiro. It is right on target: "Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Reveals the Left For What It Is."
In part, Ben writes: "Musk has been vocally critical of Twitter’s management of information flow. Immediately upon the news of the buyout breaking, Musk tweeted, 'Free speech is the bedrock of a functional democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated. I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.'
"All of these seem like worthwhile and anodyne (inoffensive) goals. More speech, not less. More transparency, not less.
"And yet the political Left went utterly insane. Charles Blow of The New York Times vowed to leave the service; in fact, #LeavingTwitter trended on the service. The American Civil Liberties Union, while noting that Musk is a card-carrying member, fretted, 'there’s a lot of danger having so much power in the hands of any one individual.' Meanwhile, powerful individual with consolidated power Jeff Bezos worried over the possibility of Chinese influence on Twitter: 'Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?' Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the deal 'dangerous for our democracy.' MSNBC’s Ari Melber hilariously agonized, 'You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the elections.'
"Yes, Ari, we know. That was the concern for tens of millions of us when social media decided to silence the Hunter Biden story, lock accounts of prominent Trump-associated officials who shared the story, and then finally to throw former President Donald Trump off of all services simultaneously following Jan. 6."
Read the full article at https://amac.us/app-link?link=amac:///article/435130
In part, Ben writes: "Musk has been vocally critical of Twitter’s management of information flow. Immediately upon the news of the buyout breaking, Musk tweeted, 'Free speech is the bedrock of a functional democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated. I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.'
"All of these seem like worthwhile and anodyne (inoffensive) goals. More speech, not less. More transparency, not less.
"And yet the political Left went utterly insane. Charles Blow of The New York Times vowed to leave the service; in fact, #LeavingTwitter trended on the service. The American Civil Liberties Union, while noting that Musk is a card-carrying member, fretted, 'there’s a lot of danger having so much power in the hands of any one individual.' Meanwhile, powerful individual with consolidated power Jeff Bezos worried over the possibility of Chinese influence on Twitter: 'Interesting question. Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?' Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the deal 'dangerous for our democracy.' MSNBC’s Ari Melber hilariously agonized, 'You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the elections.'
"Yes, Ari, we know. That was the concern for tens of millions of us when social media decided to silence the Hunter Biden story, lock accounts of prominent Trump-associated officials who shared the story, and then finally to throw former President Donald Trump off of all services simultaneously following Jan. 6."
Read the full article at https://amac.us/app-link?link=amac:///article/435130
