Elon Musk Wants To Take Over Twitter.

[iceberg]

and there is in fact, a plan b.

Musk Reveals During TED Talk That ‘There Is’ A ‘Plan B’ If Twitter Rejects His Offer To Buy The Company | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

 

[excalibur]

The Musk Twitter adventure has exposed the leftoids hatred of free speech since many people didn't already know it. Good for him!

IOW The left is un-American.

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During the failed liberal campaign to force Spotify to remove Joe Rogan's podcast — remember that? — I wrote that the real lesson from that tawdry episode was that the central religious belief of American liberals now is censorship. Silencing, deplatforming and otherwise preventing their adversaries from being heard is their paramount goal, their primary weapon. This is how I saw the anti-Rogan campaign:​

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American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by "liberals,” I mean the term of self-description used by the dominant wing of the Democratic Party).

For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of "hate speech” to mean "views that make us uncomfortable,” and then demand that such “hateful” views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, falsely, that the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech does not protect “hate speech." Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship.​

Constitutional illiteracy to the side, the “hate speech” framework for justifying censorship is now insufficient because liberals are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful. That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation.” These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning. Like the term “terrorism,” it is their elasticity that makes them so useful.

As I noted yesterday in reporting on the unprecedented censorship regime imposed in the West in the name of the war in Ukraine, a series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this war — have, in rapid succession, convinced not just liberals but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship. They have somehow inverted history so that they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists, tyrants and authoritarians — even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship as a key means for maintaining power — but instead believe that it is free speech, free discourse, and free thought that are the instruments of repression.​

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Few events have revealed this twisted framework as vividly as the news that Elon Musk offered on Wednesday to buy Twitter and take it private. The fact that Musk has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed and clearly ideological censorship regime does not mean he is earnest in his intention to restore free speech to the platform, but the mere possibility that he does intend to do so has sent censorship-dependent liberals into spasms of panic and hysteria. Before the morning was over, some were even comparing Musk's offer to . . . . . the rise of Nazism in the 1930s:​

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I will undoubtedly have more to write about these potentially exciting and encouraging developments as they proceed. Few things are more potentially positive than the restoration of free discourse on major internet platforms. For now, given the newness of this news, I will discuss it this afternoon on my Callin podcast at 3:00 pm ET. For those who are unfamiliar with this excellent, free podcasting app, it can be downloaded on either iPhone or Android phones, and you can not only listen to my podcast episodes live but also participate in the Q-and-A with me that the platform enables. Numerous other interesting and heterodox voices host shows on that platform as well. For those who cannot make the live shows, all episodes can be heard afterward on the Callin site here.​

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During today's show, I will also — in the most preliminary and reluctant way — wade a bit into the emerging discourse around "grooming” and fights over school curricula. The New York Times’ Ross Douthat published this week an interesting and insightful primer into this debate. Though I do not agree with all of it, it provides a helpful analytical starting point for the discussion. I hope to see as many of you as possible at 3:00 pm ET for the show.​

Elon Musk's "Threat" to Restore Free Speech on Twitter Provokes Liberal Panic. Today at 3 pm ET.

On my Callin podcast today, I will also, in the most reluctant manner possible, delve just a bit into the emerging "groomer" discourse over school curricula battles.

greenwald.substack.com

 

[bodecea]

How's that free speech Truth Social Media doing?

 

[Cougarbear]

I thought all of the right wing loons were on Parler or Trump's platform (whatever it is)? Cant imagine this being that important to you guys.

Twitter is the vehicle that other social media and news media get their leads from to push their leftwing communist agendas. Musk isn't going to shut down your speech. He's going to give capitalists and conservatives the right to speak their bill of rights. What's wrong with that? You can't take a challenge from Trump?

 

[Moonglow]

All Elon wanted to do is a hostile takeover. There are no social media that allows free speech, USMB doesn't allow free speech.

Social media is destroying the social fabric of the nation, but, I listen to new music and that's nice.

 

[Moonglow]

How's that free speech Truth Social Media doing?

They are banning people.

 

[rightnow909]

Conservatives cheer news of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover attempt: 'We need men like this'

Some Twitter users erupted in celebration upon hearing the news that Elon Musk had submitted a formal offer to buy Twitter.

www.foxnews.com

Fox News has this story... I don't know The Verge so.....


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[rightnow909]

Twitter is the vehicle that other social media and news media get their leads from to push their leftwing communist agendas. Musk isn't going to shut down your speech. He's going to give capitalists and conservatives the right to speak their bill of rights. What's wrong with that? You can't take a challenge from Trump?

as if we don't know the answer to that last thing?

they are having a temper tantrum ... even though they got away w/ stealing the election...

someone once said (about the leftie meltdown of 2020) not much worse than a sore loser except a sore winner


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[Mac-7]

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attempt

Twitter needs to go private for the changes needed.

www.theverge.com

Talk about a hostile take over...

The more hostile the better as far as I’m concerned

 

[Stashman]

I just watched Joe Rogans podcast with Bill Maher as guest. Maher is a classic liberal. He was saying on the podcast that he hasn't changed, and the party has now moved to the far left of which he does not support. Historically liberals championed free speech, and the move to the far left has left the classic liberal out to dry. Free speech is perhaps the greatest of all of our rights and the push by the far left to attack free speech will likely bring many classic liberals to move to the right. I hope this is the case.

 

[Papageorgio]

I guess he's not too worried about competing messaging platforms destroying Twitter. Wasn't that supposed to happen sometimes soon?

If it is bought out, isn't that the same thing, except no competition.

 

[marvin martian]

I thought all of the right wing loons were on Parler or Trump's platform (whatever it is)? Cant imagine this being that important to you guys.

Putin is still on Twitter. That's for you.

 

[Weatherman2020]

and there is in fact, a plan b.

Musk Reveals During TED Talk That ‘There Is’ A ‘Plan B’ If Twitter Rejects His Offer To Buy The Company | The Daily Wire

www.dailywire.com

He’s not a gazzilionaire for nothing.

 

[Papageorgio]

Is Candy upset?

Sounds like it to me. Sour grapes come to mind.

 

[BackAgain]

I read somewhere today that Musk may not be able to afford to buy out the remaining 91% of Twitter because he is himself cash poor. His net worth is already somewhat encumbered as collateral for some other debt he has. And given the volatility of the price for shares of Tesla, banks may consider it a risky form of collateral. Time will tell.

 

[candycorn]

Prediction: 3 years from now, there will still be threads on how supposedly biased Twitter is.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Prediction: 3 years from now, there will still be threads on how supposedly biased Twitter is.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E

 

[Ringo]

Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attempt

Twitter needs to go private for the changes needed.

www.theverge.com

Talk about a hostile take over...

It is good old concentration of the Capital, as obsolete K.Marx use to teach.

 

[two_iron]

If nothing else, there will be a mass exodus of sad little queers from the tweet factory.... ooops, there's one right there...

 

[ColonelAngus]

Not censoring is a threat to free speech?



Oh you dumb fucking cultists.