A year after being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is attempting to acquire Twitter.
To listen to Musk’s critics, …
A year after being named Time magazine’s person of the year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is attempting to acquire Twitter. To listen to Musk’s critics, you’d believe it’s a betrayal almost on par with Hitler invading Poland not long after being named Time’s man of the year in 1938. A writer for the left-wing Web site Salon worried that a Musk takeover of Twitter would enable fascism in America. A New York University journalism professor lamented that posting on Twitter with the threat of Musk looming feels like partying at a Berlin nightclub “at the twilight of Weimar Germany.” Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned, “This is what oligarchy looks like.” And so on. A report for the news site Axios compared Musk to “a movie super-villain” and related — accurately — that journalists who break news and opine on Twitter “ really don’t want to be working in Elon Musk’s private playpen.” No, they much prefer to be working in a playpen whose ever-shifting rules — constantly changing to keep up with the latest progressive priorities — are written by the kind of people who thought the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop should have been suppressed. In their eyes, Elon Musk is guilty of a thought crime — namely, believing that thought should be free and should be freely expressed on a social media platform with outsize influence on the nation’s public life.
