(04-26-2022, 12:09 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(04-26-2022, 12:06 AM)Eric1 Wrote: Imagine all of the good he actually could have done for this Country and/or World with $45 Billion... Instead he buys a social media platform and people love him for it LOL. Shows how brain dead people really are.

Preserving freedom of speech is pretty damned important. Russian media portraying the war in Ukraine as a "special operation" and not allowing any other information into the country is a perfect example of this.

I couldn't care less about twitter. I find it to be another platform on which people virtually flog those they disagree with. Just what we need! I don't have an opinion of Musk one way or the other. I don't care if Trump ever shares one more opinion. 

My "dog in this fight" is the hypocrisy of the left who are freaking out over a guy who says he wants to bring freedom of speech back to social media. His motives are beside the point. It's the left's reaction (and the reaction of twitter with their 'poison pill' option) that tells you everything you need to know about how these most powerful and influential big tech companies feel about freedom, not just of speech, but of anything else they find threatening. 

This should concern everyone. 

Will Musk follow through with his goal of free speech in social media? We'll see. I'm just glad someone with as much power (money) as big tech decided to fight back.

It's telling that Pocohantas Warren considers this to be 'a danger to our democracy' due to mis/disinformation or whatever. I guess outright lying and misrepresentation (by her) is ok, but of course I digress. The 'OUR' in her case only seems to apply to her liberal view, seemingly unchallenged by Democratic moderates (a rare to extinct species) which is proving to be its own special version of fascism.

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