Tucker looks at what the opponents of free speech are attempting to stop Elon Musk from purchasing Twitter, including not so subtly threatening his businesses. Highlights include:
“Elon Musk understands something about Twitter that many people in our country don’t understand, which is that is the single most important forum for speech, possibly in the world — not because it’s the biggest, but because it’s where “elite opinion” is incubated.”
“And so, free speech on Twitter matters, and last month, Elon Musk gave the impression that he planned to do something about it, that he planned to open up Twitter, he bought 10% of the company. Now, today, Musk has just put in an offer to buy 100% of Twitter.”
“Musk then made it clear that he has no confidence whatsoever in the people who currently run Twitter, including its pro-censorship CEO. ‘If the deal doesn’t work, given that I don’t have confidence in management nor do I believe I can drive the necessary change in the public market, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.'”
“That means if Twitter’s board rejects Elon Musk’s offer, they will need to explain why to their shareholders they’d turn down a deal that would make the shareholders much richer. So, by doing this, Elon Musk is putting everything on the line.”
“Their rule depends on censorship and propaganda. If you are offering policies that really benefit nobody but yourself, you have to lie about them and you must prevent anyone from complaining about it. So, censorship and propaganda are at the very heart of neoliberalism, and Elon Musk is challenging all of that directly.”
As Elon Musk offers to buy the rest of Twitter a legal source tells Fox Business that the SEC and the DOJ have launched what he described as a “joint investigation” into a myriad of Musk regulatory issues primarily involving Tesla’
“In other words, threaten to allow people to speak freely and we’ll crush your businesses. That’s third world behavior.”
“So, all of a sudden, the political party that’s supported almost exclusively by oligarchs like Jeff Bezos and the google guys is telling you that it’s dangerous for rich people to have too much control over speech. Really?”
“Facebook is controlled by one person, Mark Zuckerberg, but that’s not a threat because Mark Zuckerberg is happy to work on behalf of the democratic party. Once again, if anything, we are understating what a big deal this move on Twitter by Elon Musk is. If free speech is restored to even one big social media platform, it all comes tumbling down.”
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