>https://www.unz.com/article/musk-takes-twitter-is-left-is-right-to-be-terrified/
Musk Takes Twitter. Is Left Right to be Terrified?
>APRIL 25, 2022
As a Twitter shareholder of record since late 2018, when the stock was trading around $28 per share, I am naturally delighted by Elon Musk’s dramatic $54.20 per share takeover of the social media platform, which he says he intends to take private [Elon Musk acquires Twitter for roughly $44 billion, by Douglas MacMillan, Faiz Siddiqui, Rachel Lerman and Taylor Telford, Washington Post, April 25, 2022].
I’m even more delighted by the Ruling Class reaction: free speech on the platform will be anti-democratic and the free flow of information might come to a grinding halt. The same people didn’t think that when Amazon bazillionaire Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post to ensure that democracy doesn’t “die in darkness.”
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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) April 14, 2022
The good thing is, Musk is buying Twitter, he says, to keep it a free marketplace of ideas, including those that these communist commissars want banned. The bad thing is, no one knows how he’ll change its culture of repression, or whether he will permit the anonymous accounts that protect dissidents from reprisals
Never before has the power of a statement made in 140 characters or less exposed the fragility of what many on the Right derisively call The Global American Empire. Our rulers, no longer worrying being constrained by the dead letter known as the US Constitution, believe they have carte blanche to control the free flow of information, censoring any individual or even news organization they see fit (the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post), realize what Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter and restore free discourse means.
The popular Twitter user, Auron MacIntyre, compiled a breakdown of the most revealing Leftist tweets about Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Two samples:
“Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany,” journalism professor Jeff Jarvis tweeted in an amusing Reductio ad Hitlerum.
Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 14, 2022
Max Boot, an anti-white, pro-interventionist pundit, got the vapors and collapsed on his fainting couch: “I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.”
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) April 14, 2022
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich fumed “His goal is his own unconstrained freedom—the freedom to wield enormous power without having to be accountable to laws and regulations, to shareholders, or to market competition.”
Elon Musk’s real goal has nothing to do with the freedom of others. His goal is his own unconstrained freedom – the freedom to wield enormous power without having to be accountable to laws and regulations, to shareholders, or to market competition. https://t.co/EYtkaMcH2d
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 24, 2022
Read the rest here.
Musk’s move to buy Twitter does not mean he is our guy, even if one does wonder what the South African born entrepreneur thinks about post-Apartheid South Africa. But then again, he’s not not our guy . His enemies are our enemies, the very Tech Totalitarians who have silenced important voices on the right: Alex Jones to Laura Loomer to Jared Taylor to Stefan Molyneux. (VDARE.com is still on Twitter, probably because it has pulled its punches, but has been banned by Facebook, PayPal, Amazon etc.) Yet such personalities had audiences an order of magnitude greater than Warner Media’s $300 million failed CNN+ could muster. That effort sank like a rock just a month after start-up. Fewer than 10,000 people were interested [CNN+ fails, shut down after only one month, SaraCarter.com, April 21, 2022].
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