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Let’s Help Elon Musk Promote ‘Free Speech.’
So, Elon Musk buys Twitter Last year for $44 billion and change, and the company is now worth somewhere around $14 billion. That’s not bad — only a loss of 70% in eight months.
And how does Musk account for this remarkable result of his investment skills? He says — ready? — that the company has been punished because it now promotes ‘free speech.’
“Half our advertising revenue disappeared overnight,” he says, “because we’re insisting on free speech … they’re literally trying to drive Twitter bankrupt.”
Now of course, you know who the ‘they’ are — it’s all those Commie, Socialist, Pinko, Queer and Transgender corporations who are the same bunch that stole the 2020 election away from Donald Trump.
The anti-Twitter cabal is also the same bunch which is offended by the degree to which Twitter has become a safe haven for racists, anti-Semites, and all kinds of other spewers of hate and disgusting rhetoric since the company was taken over by Elon Musk.
Now don’t get me wrong. I believe that everyone including the biggest assholes and Pieces of Shit like Marjorie Taylor Greene (who now uses the acronym POS in her tweets) should be able to say whatever they want to say.
By the same token, I also have no issue with anyone who decides that that they can do without a bookmark for Twitter on their computer or their phone. And when it comes to hateful and offensive speech, I subscribe fully to what Associate Supreme Court…