Tucker takes a look at why the media are so upset that Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Highlights include:
“Elon Musk bought Twitter today. That means that Twitter henceforth will be privately held, Elon Musk will determine what is allowed on the platform.”
“Now, why is this significant? Not because it signals the sudden arrival of oligarchy, as you’re hearing now. It’s too late for that, oligarchy is already here. Every major tech company is already controlled by billionaires, that’s been the case for a long time, so this is nothing new.”
“The reason today’s sale of Twitter is big news, the reason it could turn out to be a pivot point in our history, is that Elon Musk does not agree with the rest of the billionaires in the tech business. Unlike the leaders of Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, Elon Musk believes in free speech. He thinks everyone should be allowed to talk, including people who disagree with him.”
“One platform going rogue is enough to break the monopoly. That means you now have real options for expressing yourself. Going forward, if you disagree with the administration’s latest directive, you get to say so out loud to an audience. So, they’re up there every day from the podium, the biggest megaphone in the world, commanding you to hate this or that group, lecturing you about who’s good and who’s evil as if you’re a child and have no right to decide for yourself these things, the basic things.”
“But before today, you didn’t have a right to express your disagreement in public. If you had an opposing opinion, or even more dangerous than that, if you had countervailing facts that undermine their storyline, the tech companies would shut you down immediately. Never hearing about those people was the whole point of shutting them down.”
“But that’s over.”
“So, in the case of Elon Musk, we will see how this turns out. But, for now, Musk’s purchase of Twitter is the single biggest political development since Donald Trump’s election in 2016. It is certainly the most threatening challenge to the corrupt and incompetent leadership of this country. Now, that may not be obvious to everyone yet, but the people in charge certainly understand it.”
“What you just saw was the collective grief of people who thought they were going to b fully in charge, who totally believe they’d be able to rule without limit. You’re watching those people learn that actually, other people get to talk, too. And that realization is crushing to them; it’s the one thing they fear, and that tells you everything about why those people should never be near power. People who want a monopoly on speech and thought hate Elon Musk, not because he’s a racist, he’s not, but because they can’t control him.”
“‘Elon Musk is a threat to the weak!’ say the most privileged and powerful people in our society.”
“Really, are they really standing up for the weak? No, the weak are the people who aren’t allowed to say what they really think, those are the weak, and what you just saw are the strong demanding the silence of the weak. Everyone’s kind of figured this out, except the people demanding it. They’re so far up their own butts, you just heard them say that Twitter has a fiduciary duty to ignore its shareholders, block the deal, and continue Twitter’s decline in the market.”
“It doesn’t even make any sense, and because it doesn’t, you can be sure you’re watching a meltdown. And, of course, at the bottom of the meltdown is always the same charge: ‘He’s a racist!'”
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