Late Sunday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the stunning news that billionaire Elon Musk had decided not to join the company’s board of directors.
It took about a nanosecond for sheer panic to set in among the liberal elites.
They were acutely aware that the free-speech absolutist was likely setting himself up to make an even bigger move, one that might rob them of their greatest advantage: the ability to control the news Americans are allowed to hear.
According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Musk has offered to acquire Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash, or more than $41 billion.
Washington Post columnist Max Boot didn’t even try to hide his consternation over this development.
He declared in a tweet that he was “frightened by the impact on society and politics” if the deal were to go through.
“For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less,” Boot said.
He actually came out and said that in order for democracy to survive, we need censorship. Hmmm.
Poor Max is so distraught he’s forgotten that the Big Tech censorship that has increasingly given Democrats the upper hand in American politics is not the hallmark of a free society but of an authoritarian government.
The creeping control of public debate has turned into something much more blatant and powerful over the past five years or so. The masters of the universe are no longer worried about the optics of limiting free speech; they feel entitled to be the arbiters of what information Americans can or cannot read. They know better than the rest of us rubes anyway.
But now that entitlement has been threatened in the form of a $41 billion offer from Elon Musk.
After many ridiculed and questioned Boot’s tweet, he doubled down by dedicating his Post column on Thursday to what he called his “encounter this morning with the pro-Musk/pro-Trump Twitter mob.”
“Thank you for making my point, trolls,” he wrote. “There is way too much nonsense online — too much name-calling, too much dishonesty, too many conspiracy theories. And there is a disturbing tendency for...
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But it's A-OK when lefties use bags of Soro's $$$ to obfuscate the truth and vilify others for speaking it.
Hypocrisy's about the only thing they have going.
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Federal government collusion with industry is called national socialism, i.e. Nazi. That is exactly what we have today, a cozy relationship between industry and government where each pays the other and the people are without freedom or choice.
What has Musk stumbled into? The government's reaction (announcing multiple SEC investigations within a day of the offer) shows that he scares the current administration as much as he does the social media's board. Twatter's efforts align perfectly with leftist ideology; too perfectly to be coincidence.
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