Monday, April 18, 2022

Why the Left fears Musk--who would be accountable for facts, truth, science if they lose that power?

[Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich] argued, Musk’s free-speech agenda would fulfill “the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue, and modern-day robber baron on earth.” This is because relaxation of controls over expression would allow the internet to be “dominated by the richest and most powerful people in the world, who wouldn’t be accountable to anyone for facts, truth, science, or the common good.”

What Reich left unstated is to whom Musk and the like are accountable under the current censorious dispensation. The implicit answer is “experts” like himself, who have managed to claw back a certain amount of power over the internet in the past half-decade by prevailing upon major digital platforms to censor and ban. Reich is partly telling the truth when he states, “This is not about freedom. It’s about power.”

Musk’s promise to end Twitter’s heavy-handed speech regime directly threatens the power of Reich’s own class of educated professionals, which depends on being able to silence dissenters and suppress narratives that conflict with their own."





The hypocrisy and subterfuge of the Left never cease to amaze. We the masses must lose our right to speak, write, assemble and worship so that the demagogues in The Big Tech Alliance with the Democrats can stay in control. And this isn't about Trump or his supporters; Twitter controls the world.

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