Liberals Decry Free Speech As A Threat To Democracy As Musk Offers To Buy Twitter
Liberals are the real threat to democracy. Anyone who would engage in content control and limit free speech as defined in the first amendment is an open and deliberate enemy of freedom and democracy. And they have the nerve to call freedom a threat to democracy!
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Liberals Decry Free Speech As A Threat To Democracy As Musk Offers To Buy Twitter
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Leftists are decrying free speech as a threat to democracy after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday he offered to buy Twitter.
The Washington Post opinion columnist Max Boot tweeted he is “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,” Boot added.
MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas compared Musk to an “invader” and criticized Musk’s promise to “unlock” Twitter’s potential.
Salon writer Matthew Rozsa said while he cares about freedom, he also cares about “factual precision” and said that Musk’s “attempted takeover of Twitter is a threat to the free world.”
The USA Singers, who describe themselves as musicians who “stand with Democracy,” suggested Twitter should tell Musk to “go fuck himself, then delete his account.”
“That’s how you deal with an out of control narcissistic bully.”
Duty To Warn, a group that describes themselves as mental health professionals warning about so-called “TrumpISM,” said Musk would “delete democracy.”
“If narcissistic right-wing billionaires control media, they control minds, elections and the world,” the group tweeted.
Democratic operative Jon Cooper urged Twitter users to “start a GoFundMe REAL fast to outbid Elon Musk.”
Whitney Dawn Carlson, who works in communications for the National WIC Association, tweeted a simple “fuck you @elonmusk.”
Axios, which styles itself as objective news, outright called Elon Musk a “supervillain” for attempting to bring free speech to Twitter.
“The world’s richest man – someone who used to be compared to Marvel’s Iron Man – is increasingly behaving like a movie supervillain, commanding seemingly unlimited resources with which to finance his mischief-making.”
Meanwhile, Jeff Jarvis, a professor at CUNY’s Newmark Journalism School, said Twitter “feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.”
Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43.4 billion after rejecting a seat on the board. (RELATED: REPORT: Twitter Employees Are Worried Elon Musk Will Unleash Free Speech, Possibly Paving The Way For Trump’s Return)
“The company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form,” Musk said in his offer. “Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.”
“As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced.”
“Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it,” Musk continued.
Musk has questioned whether Twitter “rigorously adheres to” the principle of “free speech,” with a poll he posted to Twitter finding 70.4% of respondents agreed Twitter does not adhere to free speech principles.
“Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” Musk then tweeted . “What should be done?”
The billionaire also said he was “giving serious thought” to creating a new platform with “free speech.”
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The reactions have been pretty funny. A lot of powerful people upset they might not be able to censor others opinions.
Musk is a business man, this has far more to do with privatizing and requiring a paid subscription fee and even more in your face advertising than it does about free speech. He's not going to offer up $43 billion just so the conservatives pushing for civil war, the Nazi's and other right wing extremists can once again tweet their rhetoric to inspire their right wing conservative fascist followers. This isn't altruism. He believes he has a sure fire plan to make some bank, that's it. Anyone trying to tell you anything different, even Musk himself, is either trying to sell you something or have convinced themselves they're victims of the 'liberal secular deep state' and see Musk as their savior much like they saw dirty Donald.
There's nothing scheming businessmen love more than a bunch of fat ignorant sheep ready for the shearing, and you don't get much dumber than someone convinced they're being 'silenced' yet have never actually been banned from Twitter or any other social media sites. These dim wits just rally around the handful of TOS breakers and hold them up as if they represent every conservative on the internet to justify their constant cries of victimhood.
If the left allows free speech people will soon find out just how foolish and damaging their ideas really are. People will see just how much they have been lied to by the left. Some like many Blacks and Hispanics are already finding that out.