Posted on 04/12/2022 10:07:34 AM PDT by billorites
The Russian people know little about Putin’s war on Ukraine because Putin has blocked their access to the truth, substituting propaganda and lies.
Years ago, pundits assumed the internet would open a new era of democracy, giving everyone access to the truth. But dictators like Putin and demagogues like Trump have demonstrated how naive that assumption was.
At least the US responded to Trump’s lies. Trump had 88 million Twitter followers before Twitter took him off its platform – just two days after the attack on the Capitol, which he provoked, in part, with his tweets. (Trump’s social media accounts were also suspended on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch and TikTok.)
These moves were necessary to protect American democracy. But Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, with 80 million Twitter followers – wasn’t pleased. Musk tweeted that US tech companies shouldn’t be acting “as the de facto arbiter of free speech”.
Musk continues to tell his 80 million followers all sorts of things. I disagree with many of his positions, but ever since I posted a tweet two years ago criticizing him for how he treated his Tesla workers he has blocked me – so I can’t view or post criticisms of his tweets to his followers.
Seems like an odd move for someone who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”. Musk advocates free speech but in reality it’s just about power.
Power compelled Musk to buy $2.64bn of Twitter stock, making him the largest individual shareholder. Last week, Twitter announced that Musk would be joining Twitter’s board of directors, prompting Musk to promise “significant improvements” in the platform.
Sunday evening, though, it was announced that Musk would not be joining Twitter’s board. No reason was given but it’s probably part of a bargaining kabuki dance.
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Riech is an IDIOT.
SORRY IDIOTS FOR INCLUDING HIM.
The Guardian is a newspaper produced by the work-therapy program of London’s Bethlehem Hospital for the Mentally Gaga. They start publishing screeds like this and as the gradually become saner they progress to picking random letters from the type tray or just covering themselves in ink and rolling on the paper.
If the munchkin Reich said it, do and believe the exact opposite.
Proof that Musk is really annoying the radical left. A stupid, incompetent author, a shrunken toad, pretends to be able to describe Musk’s personality based on the author’s bitterness over being blocked by Musk.
We already know Robert Reich. We know that nothing he says can have any value at all.
Not this Dwarf again!!
Have to control. Can’t allow humans to speak nonsense as it trains people to practice self filtering vs eating whatever the power that be feeds them.
These people are dangerous and naive, they are upside down inside out
Reich is short on intellect, among other things.
The author is an expert on his own propaganda. This is a person that projects onto others what he is doing himself.
The mainstream media’s vision for free press and speech is dangerous nonsense….
Why did Clinton hire so many mental and physical midgets?
Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos are two of the 4ft dwarves hired by the Clinton administration.
Reich LOVES censorship when it benefits the left or elitist such as himself. He is basically a member of the communist Politburo, where they exempt themselves from all the laws they push on the American peasants.
I can’t read past the first sentence because of the ridiculous claim he makes.
Only Putin does bad stuff./s
Soooo, Reich doesn’t like to be blocked? Wonder how many blocks he has on people?
Hell, I wonder if he blocks certain numbers that call his cell.
Says someone who doesn’t own a satellite-based internet company.
Everything Robert Reich says in this article is a lie. As usual.
More Leftist idiocy from ReichIdiot! Go figure....
Bitch, bitch, jealous, inequality envy, bitch, bitch, inferior feelings yada yada yada
Everything Reich accuses Musk of applies to Reich, the MSM, the Democrats, and many of our federal agencies. He accuses Musk of censoring him while defending the left’s incessant censorship of others and doesn’t see the irony.
You look a lot like Vladimir Putin....... Short
True.
This guy is an insect.
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