Posted on 04/05/2022 10:02:21 AM PDT by blam
Elon Musk’s 9.2% stake in Twitter and his newly announced board seat has sent the left into an anti-free-speech tailspin.
Musk has been an outspoken proponent of free speech – which he says that failing to adhere to “fundamentally undermines democracy.”
The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 25, 2022
On Monday, CNN host Brian Stelter said there’s a ‘fear’ over Musk’s move.
“There’s interest in billionaires, there’s celebration of the Musk. There’s also fear, I think, sometimes or wariness of- okay, so here’s the richest man on the planet who just bought a big chunk of one of our most important communications tools,” said Stelter. “”He’s also one of the biggest owners of satellites in the world. So he’s incredibly powerful, incredibly, I don’t know, am I allowed to use the word strange when talking about Elon Musk?”
Except, billionaires have been controlling information for decades and nobody had a problem.
Bring back the good and benevolent oligarchs to police the internet and our political debates for us. Google loves us and knows what is best for us, not like this irreverent ruffian. https://t.co/nnwCB7DaJo
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
Coping is not going well for the anti-free-speech crowd.
Cassie Nick Rumbaugh, a data scientist at Twitter, is among the employees and contractors very upset that @elonmusk is now the largest stakeholder in Twitter.
“A prominent transphobe buying a large stake in Twitter is not at all funny,” she says. pic.twitter.com/gFSy52YsTZ
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 4, 2022
And it’s no wonder why the left is rattled – according to Statista, their biggest problem with Twitter is ‘inaccurate or misleading information,’ while they’re least concerned about ‘Twitter banning users.’
There’s no need to wonder what the US liberal-left thinks about free speech. Polling data proves: they don’t believe in it.
Huge majorities want not only tech oligarchs *but also the state* to censor the internet for them. Can’t argue with the data. It’s right here: pic.twitter.com/ulJml3MP5s
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
More:
Elon Musk is totally unfit to run Twitter! He might not spend every waking hour thinking of new ways to control, monitor, and ban speech
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 5, 2022
“And I still dislike him [Elon Musk].”
Haraldur Thorleifsson, who directs creative services for Twitter, states his dislike for @elonmusk after the billionaire became the company’s largest stakeholder. pic.twitter.com/lvSSdlTtmY
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 4, 2022
It appears the wokerati are more than happy to allow ‘free speech’ when it’s their speech but when ‘free speech’ is contemplated for all speech (even the evil ‘others’), tolerance goes out the window and tantrums dominate (until they get their way). Perhaps the real driver of this ‘fear’ of Elon goes back to his comments (paraphrased) that “wokeness… basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
Imagine the cognitive dissonance sweeping the nation as that reality soaks in (like there’s no need to wear a mask in a car when you’re alone).
The gold nugget in there:
“Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 4, 2022
It appears the wokerati are more than happy to allow ‘free speech’ when it’s their speech but when ‘free speech’ is contemplated for all speech (even the evil ‘others’), tolerance goes out the window and tantrums dominate (until they get their way). Perhaps the real driver of this ‘fear’ of Elon goes back to his comments (paraphrased) that “wokeness… basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.””
Wonder if Musk will be able to dislodge the ADL from Twitter.
Oh, they can start their own’Twitter’ if really bothered.
The Left engages in what it thinks is moral outrage which then justifies their violence against what ever has caused this ‘’outrage’’.( of which no one else seems to be ‘’outraged’’ about.)
Some call this ‘’virtue signaling’’.
I call it moral idiocy.
Liberals are all smiles and giggles when they are destroying someone’s life, but fall all to pieces when the tables get turned
I’m glad that the left is bothered by this. Could it mean that his influence will turn Twitter into a free-speech platform which doesn’t try to control our thoughts through coercion?
That would be nice, but I’ll believe it when it happens.
Seems they had very select hiring practices. Easy solution. Fire everyone that was injected and hire the pure bloods
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death my right to rip out your tongue for having said it.
God bless Elon Musk.............................
Anything that “terrifies” liberals is a net positive.
The Illiterati are not pleased...............
Wokerati - I like it.
Leftist: “It’s okay to punch a Nazi.”
The problem is who gets to define who is a Nazi.
Indeed.
On the contrary......I think k it’s freakin’ HILARIOUS!
Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!
““There’s interest in billionaires, there’s celebration of the Musk. There’s also fear, I think, sometimes or wariness of- okay, so here’s the richest man on the planet who just bought a big chunk of one of our most important communications tools,” said Stelter. “”He’s also one of the biggest owners of satellites in the world. So he’s incredibly powerful, incredibly, I don’t know, am I allowed to use the word strange when talking about Elon Musk?””
I’ll take “who is Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg” for 100 Alex.
“the wokerati are more than happy to allow ‘free speech’ when it’s their speech but when ‘free speech’ is contemplated for all speech (even the evil ‘others’), tolerance goes out the window and tantrums dominate (until they get their way)”
They are a lot like muslim extremists in that way don’t you think?
Disagree with them and YOU must be destroyed
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