Posted on 04/27/2022 3:09:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan
So it’s war.
Twitter, the social media platform that led the charge in censoring reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop, was reluctantly forced to approve Elon Musk’s $44 billion “leveraged buyout” Monday after running out of options to block the deal. With that move, the richest man in the world, with a day job running electric car manufacturer Tesla, instantly promoted himself to five-star general of a free speech army fighting to liberate the internet from top-down political control. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk tweeted in his first statement announcing the deal, where he also pledged to make the platform’s algorithms open source “to increase trust,” defeat the site’s spam bots, and authenticate its human users. “The Berlin Wall of censorship fell yesterday,” internet entrepreneur David Sacks tweeted on Tuesday.
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On the other side of the skirmish line we have the forces of the bipartisan political establishment under the command of General Barack Obama. The members of this faction are easy to identify because they have been engaged in an unhinged freakout for weeks. Ever since news first broke indicating that Musk was trying to acquire a controlling share of Twitter, his critics have been apoplectic about the dangers to democracy that will be unleashed by allowing users to more freely share and view information. Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich captured the shrill zeitgeist of apocalyptic liberal technocrats everywhere when he warned that Musk’s “libertarian vision of an ‘uncontrolled’ internet [is] also the dream of every dictator, strongman, and demagogue.” Uh, sure, “what linked Idi Amin, Suharto, and Adolf Hitler,” James Kirchick recently noted in The Scroll, “was their belief in unfettered freedom of speech.”
The lefties are going to go after this guy so hard...
Cage match....put it on pay TV and retire the national debt.
The USA is a naturally conservative country.
Years ago, USA media was captured by the left.
Now, an unexpected revolution has begun and the media is terrified.
Obama is the chosen representative groomed and politically sharpened tip of a spear wielded by a cabal of leftists who stay stealth in the shadows or unnoticed on the sidelines. There is no stupidity in the world quite as stupid as the stupidity that fuels the left.
He’s right. Trumpet is better.
I would bet on MUSK all day long.
He is playing 3 D chess
The others are playing pick-up-sticks
Their “thinking” is so chaotic that it doesn’t even rise to the level of cognitive dissonance.
Obama had been allowed to spew nonsense into the echo chamber butttt
With what?
Hot air?
Mr. Mensa on steroids versus the jug-eared, dental floss armed halfrican?
Uh huh....right.
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