Follow-up to this post
Twitter is suing Elon Musk to force him to buy the company per his original (large) offer, and that case was supposed to go in front of a judge soon. But there's a surprising turn of events in this ongoing drama. Now he says okay, he will buy it!
When he first made the offer last spring, staff and board members let it be known that they didn't like it. Elon's issue was to turn Twitter toward more free speech and away from viewpoint censorship - but a surprising number of people defended censorship.
Now that the purchase seems to be going forward again, critics are resurfacing.
One of them is a former high government official and hypocrite, who tweeted: "When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy."
Comments poked fun at his vast insincerity . . because a man of his experience just has to know that our "vital platforms for communication" are already owned by billionaires! One of the comments: "[Y]ou weren’t worried about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Gates, or anyone else." Let's add to that list Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, Sergei Brin.
The win for oligarchy that he mentions was achieved years ago when our billionaire social media giants used their influential power to censor speech they didn't like.
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