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Originally Posted by Seducio
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It's been incredibly revealing to watch how far lefties have responded to the Twitter change of ownership to X. Botten is pro-censorship of voices he disagrees with. He doesn't want adults to have all the information available to make decisions with and instead wants adults to have only corporate sponsored information. Elon, who owns X, claimed on JRE that Twitter censored conservative voices 10x compared with liberal or left voices.
As someone that is a liberal I find the calls for censorship by the far left appalling. People like Origen and Botten are acting against the concepts in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. The willingness to encourage the kind of extreme left biased censorship that was occurring on Twitter before the purchase is revealing in its depravity against the concept that sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is far left marcusian repressive tolerance type shit.
Individuals such as Botten have adopted an anti-American way of looking at speech. Botten is indicating that he doesn't trust adults to decide what is best for themselves. He is claiming that the information must be curated because humans are gullible to "one good talker" etc who can convince them of something Botten doesn't like. The mainstream media model believes this as well and has championed the concept of misinformation from sources that are not 'authoritative'. The USA public has responded by mostly stop watching mainstream media and instead getting info online.
Botten is indicating he believes there is one correct way for this information to be disseminated and that we Americans must all digest what we are told. Botten is unwittingly for the status quo. He does not want humans to progress to become better versions of themselves by holding their corrupt Govts and corrupt businesses that take advange of corrupt Govt to account.
As a business decision, Musk lost most of X's value. It has been a business failure. Elon is a business man and from a business perspective X hasn't been a win. Whether there is some cultural value to what he did is in the eye of the beholder and it appears Elon seems to think the consolation prize is good enough for him according to his last interview. Elon paid tens of billions of dollars so far lefties couldn't rely on Twitter to brigade and shame people on the internet.
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Careful there you are letting your supposed centrist left mask slip. Probably cheap extreme right glue.