“…the collusion of state security and tech oligarchs to influence the election”
Ah, yes, those venerated public/private partnerships that have been all the rage with the government oligarchy and leftist NGOs for the past 2-3 decades.
So an NGO - the DNC, for the benefit of its candidate Joe Biden, gets then-Leftist Twitter to stifle speech, remove content and ban participation and close accounts. Then, once Joe Biden gets successfully installed as president, under the same name - but even greater power and authority, the office of the president, through the same DNC to Twitter superhighway - increases and magnifies the censorship and banning on any issue they wish to suppress.
A very fine public/private partnership. The lawyers who shout about “it’s a private organization” are either willfully blind to the deep, systemic integration of the government oligarchy with private for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises. Or they are just being ignorantly pedantic.
We live in a time where public entity and private entity has been blurred - intentionally, by those in the government oligarchy and their fellow-riders operating solely for the benefit of those government operators (like CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NYT, Facebook, WP).
Those wonderful public/private partnerships have led us to right here, where if you scratch the government (barely) you find a multitude of “private” entities doing the work and the bidding of the government oligarchy that is running BOTH.
They used to call that fascism…but we can’t say that, can we? That should censored.
excellent post