Posted on 04/21/2022 4:47:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The reason Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter couldn’t be clearer: more freedom of speech on a platform that, like it or not, has become Earth’s “de facto” town square, as he put it.
Twitter, along with just about all the Big Tech giants, uses dirty algorithms and misleading information to shoot down conservative voices in the name of battling false and misleading information.
We all know the drill.
It steered users away from clicking on New York Post’s consequential Hunter Biden laptop story by posting warnings such as “potentially unsafe” and warned that the story contained “hacked materials.” It banned and suspended the accounts that it said spread false information about COVID-19, including Dr. Robert Malone, innovator of mRNA technology.
Twitter shadow-bans prominent conservatives whose views it dislikes. And it permanently banned Donald Trump’s account but kept the accounts of Iran’s ayatollah, Chinese propagandists, Vladmir Putin, Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro, and Louis Farrakhan.
As with so many issues today, we’re supposed to pretend none of this happening even as Twitter’s tyrannical bias poisons the public discourse.
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Those of a conservative bent hope against hope that Musk’s Twitter escapade is about blunting restraint of free speech. Then again Musk may just be bored and playing money games that only billionaires can play.
Television stations can't give free political advertising to Democrats without giving the same to Republicans. Twitter and Facebook should be the same
The value of this bias is worth tens if not hundreds of millions to Democrats.
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