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Tearing Down the Silicon Valley Wall
American Greatness ^ | 27 Apr, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/28/2022 5:01:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The country is ready for a revolution. And Musk believes he can lead it with his Silicon-Valley sledgehammer.

Elon Musk has finally managed to buy Twitter. And the moment he did, the enraged Left flipped out.

Abruptly leftists began trashing their favorite electronic communications platform as the domain of the nation’s elite, professional classes. Had they just discovered that they had been racists and privileged users all this time?

And what happened to the Left’s former worship of Musk as the man who revolutionized the clean, green automobile industry with his Tesla electric car company?

Or Musk the space revolutionary and hip star trekker, who with his own money helped ensure the United States remains preeminent in space exploration?

Or Musk, the patriot who is providing free next-generation internet service to the underdog Ukrainians fighting Russians for their lives?

No matter. The Left reviles Musk because he has announced that Twitter will be the one social-media platform whose business is not to censor or massage free speech in an otherwise monopolist, intolerant, and hard-Left Silicon Valley.

Who knows, Musk might even allow former president Donald Trump to communicate on Twitter—in the fashion that the terrorist Taliban, Iranian theocrats, and violent Antifa protesters all take for granted in their daily access to Twitter.

But how did the once free-speech, anti-trust, let-it-all-hang out Left become a Victorian busybody, a censorious Soviet, and an old-fashioned robber-baron monopoly?

When it discovered that few Americans wanted left-wing, socialist politics it turned elsewhere. It found power instead through control of American institutions, from academia and Wall Street to traditional and social media.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; freespeech; gramsci

1 posted on 04/28/2022 5:01:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

“Disinformation” accusations will be used to prevent truth from intruding into the left’s false reality. It will have the force of government behind it.


2 posted on 04/28/2022 5:01:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I wish this had occurred when it became clear what was happening with the left’s control of social media in addition to the “mainstream media”; before the 2016 election, it was very clear that a large number of people were believing only what the left allowed them to see. After that election, I posted that they wouldn’t make that mistake again - and by 2018 Trump was basically dead in the water, with both halves of the Uniparty he’d defeated preventing him from representing the American people. The election theft of 2020 was foreshadowed in the events of 2016.


3 posted on 04/28/2022 5:05:08 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Disinformation” accusations will be used to prevent truth from intruding into the left's false reality. It will have the force of government behind it.

How'd that work out against Tucker Carlson, who continues to dominate cable ratings, even among Democrats.

4 posted on 04/28/2022 5:16:22 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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“The country is ready for a revolution.”

I do not think so. At least not a “Torches & Pitchforks” revolution. Simply because well over 90% of conservatives in this country are law-abiding, peaceful and still have faith in The Constitution. But unless there are some big changes, it is coming.
If it comes before there are foreign troops patrolling Main Street USA, then it will be too late.


5 posted on 04/28/2022 5:20:29 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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Oh I’m sure the democrats will be unbelievably motivated to overhaul article 47 sec. 230 now.


6 posted on 04/28/2022 5:55:42 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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