Twitter's Chickens Come Home to Roost
Elon Musk has reportedly attempted to purchase Twitter, and I have no idea whether his influence on the company would be positive or not. I do know, however, what other media figures think Musk’s influence on Twitter will be. They think it will be bad — very bad, bad! How none of them see what a self-own this is is beyond me. After spending the last six years practically turgid with joy as other unaccountable billionaires tweaked the speech landscape in their favor, they’re suddenly howling over the mere rumor that a less censorious fat cat might get to sit in one of the big chairs…
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a year ago · 1139 likes · 654 comments · Matt Taibbi
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After being suspended by Twitter for another week, probably for the tenth time, including permanent suspensions of other accounts of mine over time, almost always for posting actual data related to the ineffectiveness and actual harm caused by masking children, the notable lack of vaccine efficacy at stopping spread, and the damages caused by lockdowns and school closures, I have little sympathy for the current management. Meanwhile, it’s time for 12 year olds who are at virtually zero risk to get their booster so Pfizer can keep making billions in profits.
The latest revelation by Musk and Dorsey that the Twitter board is dysfunctional and is comprised of individuals with very little ownership and who are paid a salary gives fantastic credence to the theory that Twitter has been effectively infiltrated by corporatist forces committed to an agenda committed to the silencing of half the population.
At some point after the 2016 election, Democrats noting that social media was destroying their mainstream media collusion advantage, met with their Wall Street-powered billionaire boys club partner-owners of the mainstream media to encourage them to start buying up shares of, primarily, Twitter. Democrats could see that their political ties were unraveling as the black cohort and Hispanic cohort was drifting away from the professional class elite coastal liberal agenda. They had no message to pull those voters back, so they needed to attack and destroy their opposition while silencing those that would criticize them and offer competing ideas.
I don't think this plan has worked as well as the Democrats had planned even though it did allow them to win the 2020 election.