[ExI] Twitter and free speech

[Darin Sunley]

T'was ever thus. Or did you imagine that Joseph Kennedy and Prescott Bush
were good'ol American small-business owners.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 8:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *Dave S via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] Twitter and free speech
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> >…Musk/Twitter suspended Ye for posting a pic with a star of David and a
> swastika. They've also apparently suspended people critical of Musk. And
> the ex-president's account was only reactivated after a poll was in favor
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> >…Not exactly shining examples of freedom of speech, but good examples of
> "power corrupts".
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> -Dave
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> Sure, but Twitter is a private company.  Musk owns that.  He can do
> whatever he wants.  Musk has no political office, and so he has no
> “power.”  He can’t arrest anyone or stop anyone from exercising their right
> to free speech.
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> Fun question however:  are we ready to admit that money and political
> power have become indistinguishable?  How did that happen please?
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