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"There is only one way for Twitter to exist as a viable entity, people are now starting to realize this. What matters to the people behind Twitter, the people who are subsidizing the ability of Twitter to exist, is control over the global conversation. Control of the conversation is priceless to the people who provide the backbone for Twitter. Once people realize who is subsidizing Twitter, everything changes. That’s the fight."--Sundance
Jack's Magic Coffee Shop - The Last Refuge:
The only way Twitter, with 217 million users, could exist as a viable platform is if they had access to tech systems of incredible scale and performance, and those systems were essentially free or very cheap. The only entity that could possibly provide that level of capacity and scale is the United States Government – combined with a bottomless bank account. A public-private partnership.
If my hunch is correct, Elon Musk is poised to expose the well-kept secret that most social media platforms are operating on U.S. government tech infrastructure and indirect subsidy. Let that sink in.
The U.S. technology system, the assembled massive system of connected databases and server networks, is the operating infrastructure that offsets the cost of Twitter to run their own servers and database. The backbone of Twitter is the United States government.
"Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it. Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed. In US culture, we're inculcated from childhood that censorship is bad. So of course, nobody -- especially journalists -- wants to say: "I favor censorship." That's why they need euphemisms like "content moderation": to pretend it's about bots, abuse, etc. rather than ideology.
Everyone knows they are lying. Nobody cares about Twitter censoring bots or spam. That's not what this is about. The social media censorship people care about is 100% ideological: banning dissent on COVID, the Biden emails, culture war debates, etc. That's what's at stake.
Let's put it this way: On Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, you are free to say the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen and fraudulent. You can't say that about 2020. Before the 2020 election, you weren't allowed to post reporting on the Biden emails. It's all ideological. Throughout the COVID pandemic, you weren't allowed to question the efficacy of cloth masks. You weren't allowed to interrogate the origins of the virus. You weren't allowed to debate vaccines or lockdowns. No dissent from Fauci/WHO was allowed. The censorship is 100% political.
You're allowed to spread any lies, propaganda and disinformation you want if it advances the Ukrainian cause (i.e., the US/NATO cause), but will be instantly banned if you say anything that challenges that on the ground of "Russia disinformation." This is all explicit. Censorship of conservatives gets most attention because it's so common, but censorship of anti-establishment leftists is also frequent: any dissident can be banned. Pretending this is about bots or spam is fraudulent. This censorship is about control of political information.
Social media was heralded as an innovation that would liberate individuals from centralized control by the state and oligarchical power over their speech. It has become the exact opposite: the most powerful tool of information control and speech constraints ever devised.
How dumb do you have to be to believe that journalists - who work at Bloomberg and the Bezos-owned WPost or Comcast or CNN - are worried about billionaires controlling media (🤣). They're only petrified that the *wrong* billionaire, one who may not censor for them, might reign.There are many reasons to be skeptical of Musk's motives and, even if pure, his ability to restore free speech to Twitter. Way too many powerful interests need this censorship. But the panic reveals so much.
To underscore how crucial it is to US power centers that no free speech be allowed: Parler became *the most-downloaded app* in the US. The next day, AOC demanded Apple & Google ban them. Other Dems demanded Amazon do the same. One day later, it was gone.Liberals don't believe they're authoritarians and in favor of censorship. Nobody wants to believe this about themselves. All authoritarians tell themselves: what we're fighting is so dangerous, all our tactics are inherently just. That's what liberals believe about themselves.Canada's Trudeau *froze the bank accounts* of people "associated with" a peaceful protest which the government disliked -- all with no due process! This didn't bother Western liberals for the same reason: all tactics are justified against our enemies.".......
Half of the Twitter links in my blogrolls have been cancelled by the Regime. And as we know, they don't cancel you for lying; they cancel you for telling the truth. I felt bad about deleting the links, but I don't want to send people to a dead link. So I try to find their new platforms.
Many tweeters are threatening to leave if Musk gains ownership. "My arguments are so weak and unpopular they can't possibly survive unless Twitter censors my opponents for me!"
But Free Speech issues are almost beside the point.
I've often compared this functional fascism to Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train", where criminals swap crimes to provide each other's alibis. Social Media does the Regime's illegal censorship while the Regime ignores the anti-trust crimes, privacy violations and business fraud perpetrated by Big Tech.
But now we see that Big Tech and Big Occupation Government are actually ONE AND THE SAME. There is only one Stranger on the Train.
Sure, they have well-paid beards to make it seem otherwise, but when the Alphabet Agencies underwrite the operation of these platforms, it becomes a Wizard of Oz farce, a "No Yellow!" Brick-masquerade where all roads lead to D.C..
That means that the workaday censorship of dissidents is Government Censorship and a criminal violation of Civil Rights under Color of Authority.
When a Twitter Mob descends on a victim, that is a Digital Brownshirt Mob facilitated, encouraged and sent by the Powers That Be.
Just one more Kristallnacht Caboose on Jefferson's Long Train of Abuses.
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