On Twitter's Newfound "Freedom"

While it's satisfying to watch the liberal tears fall like Niagara as Twitter changes hands, it's not exactly comforting that the pro-censorship Orwellian atmosphere has been replaced by a bunch of anti-vax, climate denialist misogynist Trump worshiping chuds screaming their ignorance into the void as if they've "won".  You haven't won anything; you're still just as overworked, underpaid & uneducated as you were when the other billionaire owned Twitter.  Your government is still controlled by a lying 2-party system whose only purpose is to aid the upward transfer of wealth out of your hardworking hands and into the pockets of people like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos & Mark Zuckerberg--all of whom view you as a nondescript mass of dirty peons.  It would be really nice if Americans were capable of independent thought instead of this tribalistic cult idiocy.  But no.

We won't have "won" until social media giants are considered a public utility like the phone companies of old, when private citizens and CEOs couldn't cut off users' access at will without serious cause & ample evidence.  When the government wasn't allowed to spy on our conversations without a warrant & by the time said companies were able to cut off our access to the utility, we were well on our way to prison for a major crime like terrorism or conspiracy anyway.  

You can claim to stand for free speech all day.  It's a hollow promise if you engage in union-busting, sexual harassment, sending threatening emails & other bullying behaviors toward the very people who made you a billionaire.  There's nothing "free" about that.  Elon Musk's dad is a pedophile who literally groomed his own step-daughter from the age of 4 & impregnated her with his "lovechild".  They now have two kids together.  I dare somebody to try tweeting that.  

I've seen too many websites switch hands only for the new owner to start working with the Feds, resulting in a massive wave of arrests of the site's users.  We have no evidence that won't be the case here.  We don't know what could happen.  These social media sites are a data mining privacy breach by their very nature.  Nothing is free in this world.  Your celebrations are premature.  Stop taking crooked billionaires' words at face value.  They didn't get insanely rich by being generous, honest people.  And you won't become a billionaire by osmosis or brown-nosing these sociopaths. 

The answer to corporate ownership of speech isn't more corporate ownership of speech.  They're playing chess while you're still trying to master checkers & think a Tic Tac Toe win is worth celebrating.  You ride the corporate dick at your own peril.