<div dir="ltr">Putting aside the current Ye discussion, the US government has weaponized "private" social media companies who willingly do their bidding in terms of censorship, account removals, and putting their thumb on the scale in regard to elections.<div><br></div><div>We're now in a very dangerous situation in terms of preserving our Constitutional rights because the current administration is using private companies as conduits to circumvent the 1st and 2nd amendments.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 10:55 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg1928674186949430670"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_1928674186949430670WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave S via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Twitter and free speech<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…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 of it.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Not exactly shining examples of freedom of speech, but good examples of "power corrupts".<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-Dave<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Fun question however: are we ready to admit that money and political power have become indistinguishable? How did that happen please?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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