How considerably exciting should it be to be Elon Musk now? You are a billionaire in your early fifties, you can do or go anyplace you want, and you now personal Twitter, one particular of the biggest social media platforms in the planet, exactly where your stated target is to make it a beacon for totally free speech.
And as an further added bonus, it is driving the left totally insane. Pinch your self.
The left is whining about a lot of points pertaining to this acquire, but the most ridiculous is these who are feigning outrage about billionaires owning news and information and facts outlets. When did they turn out to be concerned with that? Oh yeah, final evening.
As progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald pointed out, “journalists” at outlets owned by billionaires like Jeff Bezos or Laurene Powell Jobs, the wife of the late Steve Jobs, are all of a sudden very upset that billionaire Musk owns Twitter.
The people today who function for the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos and who create for the magazine controlled and funded by Laurene Powell Jobs are really worried this morning about the unprecedented crisis we face of billionaires purchasing and controlling the flow of news and information and facts. pic.twitter.com/b6WgNLKdPl
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 28, 2022
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Free Speech? We Can’t Have Free Speech!
But the most effective component is, the “experts” have now been referred to as in to analyze what the effect will be of people today on one particular single social media web site basically becoming in a position to say what they consider, rather than becoming censored.
A current Political Insider report stated that Musk had openly discussed laying off roughly 75% of Twitter personnel.
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So the “experts” determined that, “While details of the potential layoffs remain limited, the move could compromise the platform’s capacity to police false or harmful content, with ramifications that extend to social issues like election integrity.”
Translation: if Musk lays off 3 quarters of Twitter personnel, there will not be sufficient people today to, #1, deem themselves the arbiters of what is “false” or “harmful,” due to the fact who else but a 20 or 30 one thing with an IT degree and no life knowledge would be most effective to figure out that?
And #two, not obtaining sufficient personnel to censor what people today see could have extended lasting dangerous effects, like forming opinions for themselves, and posting them.
But probably practically nothing sums up “experts” like Zeve Sanderson, executive director at New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics who philosophized, “Content moderation will be a lot harder without people doing content moderation.”
@elonmusk I’d rather have a Billionaire troll owning Twitter than a load of Marxist Woketards 🙂🙂👍😲👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/Hdx1HPzXzw
— Lord Snooty of Bitcoin 𦨛TC XBT (@TerryJones0001) October 28, 2022
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The ‘Right Kind’ Of Billionaires
As Glenn Greenwald so rightly pointed out, all of the “journalists” who have created careers functioning at the newspaper that Jeff Bezos owns, or the magazine that Laurene Powell Jobs owns, apparently had been completely OK with those billionaires directing the information and facts targeted traffic. What’s the distinction?
While perhaps not considerably is identified about the individual political leanings of Bezos or Jobs, what is identified is that the publications they personal are left leaning. While Musk is undoubtedly no conservative, he has created his views on becoming woke and cancel culture identified, and his reasoning for purchasing Twitter has remained constant.
On Thursday he stated, “The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.”
Elon Musk’s new acquisition was complete of ironic hilarity by these who are OK with totally free speech for themselves and these they agree with, but not for you.
A non-billionaire explained how one particular becomes a billionaire.
The overarching critique of Elon Musk must be that hes a billionaire. People only turn out to be billionaires by way of explotation. Explotation of people today, all-natural sources, tax loopholes or monopolies. We must not be celebrating people today who hoard excessive amounts of wealth and energy.
— Marlon Kameka (@MarlonKameka) October 28, 2022
So, is this only for billionaires who advocate for totally free speech? I’m confused. Another had a public service announcement.
Timely reminder. Billionaires are not your pals. @elonmusk
— Pasteur Eyes #UTA 🟥🟨 (@broncoskolar) October 28, 2022
Still other people also required some clarification.
The left is enraged that a billionaire Elon Musk buys twitter.
So, the prior billionaire Jack Dorsey is okay with the left? Is just Elon the billionaire they never like?— Frank James (@FrankJa33010918) October 28, 2022
And ultimately, just a bit of very good assistance.
If you are attempting to goof on Elon Musk by posting an unattractive photo of him, please make positive you are much more appealing than he is.
Remember: if you are not appealing and not a billionaire, you are not winning this.
— Lou Perez (@TheLouPerez) October 28, 2022
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