Breaking: Twitter accepts Musk’s Share offer buyout plan

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April 25, 2022

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Breitbart, as I just saw:

After a two-week battle against opposition from the platform’s board members, self-declared free speech absolutist Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and currently the richest man in the world, has succeeded in his bid to buy Twitter.
In a press release, the Twitter board announced that they had reached an agreement with the multi-billionaire to sell 100 percent of the company at Musk’s original price of $54.20 per share.

Where does this point?

DEVELOPING.

U/D April 29, Followership jumps per Daily mail:

A chart of followership shifts from the verge:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYEjYnmPlALieutenant Commander Data_{May 21, 2022
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Not Twitter but definitely the spread of information. Bill O'Reilly just released his new book, "Killing the Killers." The opening prologue is about the raid on Osama Bin Laden that killed him. If one never heard the details, part of this book is free including most of this prologue. But definitely not all. I am listening to the Audible version as I drive or walk. https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Killers-Against-Terrorists-OReillys/dp/1250279259/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1651670914&sr=8-1&asin=1250279259&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1 O'Reilly's books are some of the best histories available. I highly recommend "Killing England" which is one of his best.jerry_{May 4, 2022
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Jerry, if their spec ops had worked, that may well have been so. KFkairosfocus_{May 2, 2022
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Here is something that Twitter is really good at, publishing individuals who have done hours of work compiling information.
:) Cnn type of info? It's called disinfo. US increased with 43% import of oil from Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjFZjt3cF0Lieutenant Commander Data_{May 2, 2022
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Here is something that Twitter is really good at, publishing individuals who have done hours of work compiling information. This is about the cost to Russia of their invasion of Ukraine. So far about $34 billion. They expected it would be $1 billion and over in 3 days. Next Monday is the biggest day of year for Russia. It’s their yearly anniversary celebration of the defeat of Germany. They had planned to include their war with Ukraine in the celebration. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520463608135749634.htmljerry_{May 2, 2022
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We are about to see what 44 Billion Musk bucks can do, looks like.kairosfocus_{May 2, 2022
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Looks like some nice investigative work: design detection
They will get around some of the investigative techniques in the upcoming up elections. They will instruct everyone to turn off the tracking on their phones. Hard to do but I am sure they know how. They immediately went to plastic gloves in Georgia for the senate elections after they saw that finger prints were being taken in Arizona at the drop boxes. Apparently is was incredibly well organized and probably paid for by Zuckerberg. What a half billion Zuck bucks can do.jerry_{May 2, 2022
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Opens in select theaters today. The one in my local area is sold out. On-line streaming begins May 7: Trailer: https://2000mules.com/ Looks like some nice investigative work: design detection ... “2,000 Mules” is a compelling election integrity whodunit. Visually reminiscent of director Tony Scott’s thriller “Enemy of the State,” this film uses state-of-the-art technology to prove that the 2020 presidential election was stained, if not fully stolen, through the lowest-tech means: stuffed ballot boxes. https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/04/29/film-2000-mules-offers-vivid-proof-of-voter-fraud/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGEGMVFADjY6j-ib8YUYuDDAKzGBeAOKLWuCoGSuqA4NM8yeT5R-sbVjQNRmHXQqQAElIp0HdtoaGVGcc4iDAoMwBzdNWWUk3A3H5FkE0Br8kqAnY7sSilver Asiatic_{May 2, 2022
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U/D, Further evidence on Twitter follower trends: https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/27/23045005/conservative-twitter-follower-boost-musk-acquisition-data
Data compiled by The Verge from social media statistics site Social Blade shows that in the two days since the deal was completed, influential conservative accounts have increased their follower counts at roughly ten times the average daily rate for the month leading up to the acquisition. Meanwhile, popular liberal accounts have suffered, collectively losing hundreds of thousands of followers on April 25th and 26th after a month of gains.
They try to argue the deal isn't complete and management hasn't changed but seem to have overlooked the flip the switch in the algorithm effect. (Aka, turn on the light and watch the scramble for dark corners . . .)kairosfocus_{April 30, 2022
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In other news completely unrelated and having nothing whatsoever to do with this, the current occupant of the White House established a new division of the Department of Homeland Security called the ‘Disinformation Governance Board ...
So, what people post on social media (or blogs?) will now be prosecuted as matters of "Homeland Security".Silver Asiatic_{April 29, 2022
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More on the uncertainty of Musk buyout. https://www.reuters.com/technology/investors-fret-over-potential-musk-u-turn-44-bln-twitter-buyout-2022-04-27/jerry_{April 29, 2022
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Jerry, stocks normally fall after an acquisition, likely as such is a radical change with implied jump in risk thus needed risk premium. This is obviously hostile, and that compounds risk. Right now, the astute and insightful, ice water for blood investor is likely thinking the best time to buy is when blood runs in the streets. But that is not the general psychology involved. I am seeing from DM, that a string of conservatives so called have had followerships jump by 1 - 300k, while leading lights of the left have dropped like 10 - 30 k, Musk is the exception and jumped nigh on 3 mill, but he just became a hot property. I don't think it is really organic, a switch just got flipped. KF PS, Take DJT Jr as a stand in. Updated OP. Right now I guess next Republican ticket looks like DJT- De Santis.kairosfocus_{April 29, 2022
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Elon Musk does not own Twitter. His offer has been approved by the board. Will it happen? Probably but why is the stock trending lower than offer? Seems like a great way to make instant money.jerry_{April 29, 2022
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PPS, another comment:
J April 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm This is all about cleaning up the code base before Elon Open Sources it. I think their plan is to make the code and algorithms fair and balanced now, so that when they push it out to open source, they can say “Hey, see, its not biased!!” But Elon doesn’t need to just open source the current code, he needs to open source the whole repository and its entire change history!!! If he does that I believe forensic analysis of the code will show STUNNINGLY EVIL manipulation of the code to punish and block conservatives on the platform. I would not be surprised if they are trying to wipe out some of those changes from the historical code right now so the evidence can’t be found. But I’ll be really suspicious (so you mean there were ZERO code changes from July 2020 to January 2021??? REALLY?!?!) This is part of trying to HIDE THE EVIDENCE!!!
How much of what has seemingly been going on is a madhouse hall of warped mirrors, Plato's cave shadow shows, crooked yardsticks decrying what is actually straight and worse?kairosfocus_{April 29, 2022
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F/N: J C Wright cites and cleans up Larry Correia -- and why isn't this part of a 24/7 media meltdown expose of insidious censorship: https://www.scifiwright.com/2022/04/we-knew-the-game-was-rigged/
Larry Correia holds forth on recent events of public note, including the recent acquisition of YouTwitFace by Hank Rearden, famous industrialist, and inventor of Rearden Metal. He writes, in part (expletives in the original are here deleted.) Keep in mind, I’m a relative nobody on there [= Twitter]. I got up to like 12k followers before I bailed out. That’s zilch in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve done enough culture war [snip] that my name usually shows up on the naughty list. In the time I’ve been posting regularly again, that follower count remained remarkably static, only growing by a few hundred people over a year. Along comes Elon Musk, everybody is celebrating, having a good time, and I posted about how my feed looked a lot different. I was seeing people I’d not seen for years. (my first thought was that these were people who had been gone but were checking back in because of Elon buying it, but nope, they had been posting there the whole time) Then I started getting tweets from followers who are like, whoa, Larry is back on Twitter! So I got curious and started asking about this, and then the posts started coming. Dozens of them. Oh yeah, I thought you weren’t on here! I thought you only posted like once a month! I never see you post. So on and so forth. It was remarkably consistent. I knew I was throttled, but I had not realized just how bad it was. It was way harder than I thought. [--> this is a bigtime SFF author with a significant fan base] Then remember how my follower count had been static for the last year, even though I’d been tweeting a lot? I don’t know the actual numbers because I didn’t think to note them beforehand, but I jumped more that day than I had the prior year. It was like a pathetic growth of 200 for a year, and then 200 more THAT MORNING. I think it’s like 400 today. Which makes me wonder how many followers I would actually have if they’d not been hiding my stuff? Facebook does the same thing. My follower count on there grew steadily and rapidly up to around 20k, where it froze and has remained stable for the last few years, which isn’t suspicious at all) I’m just a social media blip. Yet meanwhile, all the big mega famous conservative accounts are jumping 5k, 10k, 80k(!) followers that day. While the giant lefty/RINO accounts are mysteriously shrinking by equally gigantic numbers. [--> smoking gun!] This was of course blamed on angry leftists leaving in protest, and curious conservatives arriving… Except I don’t buy that. Some yes. All? No way. That’s somebody at Twitter putting their thumb on the scale to make the people with bad politics look weaker, and those with good politics look more popular. [--> former practising accountant] Now, people were quick to point out that not enough time has passed for Elon to make changes. Nope. But changes have clearly happened. There is undeniable evidence of that. Which means while Twitter was busy burning evidence of all the things they lied to congress about, they must have flipped the [Expletive Deleted] Conservatives switch to off. The change was so sudden, blatant, and glaring that it was impossible to miss. Free speech had clumsily returned to Twitter. Twitter may be a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it is also a big hive which has been disproportionately persuasive in American culture. Polling shows that Twitter users lean overwhelmingly left (do they really though?) and the most prolific and popular (?) swing super crazy left. The problem then is stupid corporations (Disney, Netflix) look at Twitter, think it represents America, say lets cater to that, and then promptly step on their dicks, because it turns out that’s not what regular normal America wants at all. So Elon forcing that thumb off the scale is potentially a huge thing in the culture war. I’ve been enjoying the hell out of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from leftist blue checks, because they know their ideas are such [snip], the only way they can win is to lie with impunity about their competitors. The whole fake follower thing has been hilarious to watch. For example, Super RINO Bill Kristol supposedly has nearly a million followers. I’ve got a measly 13k. Yet when we post stuff, I get a similar amount of interaction (likes, comments, quotes, etc.) Yet he’s got 75 TIMES the actual human followers I do? Uh huh… That’s totally plausible. Long time readers will remember Sad Puppies, which in a lot of ways was a proto battle of the Culture Wars. The left used all the same sleazy dishonest tactics then, that are common now. If you’ll recall there was this one “news” website for scifi/fantasy publishing that everybody thought had this gigantic following. For years writers and publishers kissed this scumbag psycho’s fat ass, because they thought he had the power to make or break careers. Until we exposed the fact that 93% of his traffic was from Chinese bots, then poof. He became a meaningless punch line, and it turned out his audience was just a pathetic bunch of irrelevant whiners. This is the same sort of thing, only orders of magnitude larger. The tech has evolved, but the grift remains the same. Leftists need everyone to think that their stupid beliefs are far more popular than they are. They have to control the narrative, because their actual platform is [expletive deleted] garbage, which can’t ever stand up to logic or scrutiny. [JCW:] No comment of mine is needed. When one knows one is being gaslighted, one knows the lie is a lie. One never knows how big it is. In other news completely unrelated and having nothing whatsoever to do with this, the current occupant of the White House established a new division of the Department of Homeland Security called the ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ or Minitru, for short. I am not making this up. Nor is George Orwell. It merely sounds like he has. https://timcast.com/news/department-of-homeland-security-forms-disinformation-governance-board/
Its recalibration time. Including, what has been done to UD as an almost trivial footnote. Far bigger, is what is the actual truth about events of 2020 starting with the pandemic and the dumpster fire known as the US Election? Will we ever know, short of a certain great white throne of judgement? KF PS, a sample comment from Correia's onward linked:
aivanther April 27, 2022 at 11:50 am I gave up Twitter when it made clear, for about the 12th time, that it didn’t want libertarian leaning conservatives. It’s nice to hear about the change, but I’m not going back. It is weird to me that suddenly Elon Musk is evil. He was the cool guy with electric cars and solar panels, and the left loved him. Then all of sudden he talks about free speech and looks to buy Twitter and he is LITERALLY WORSE THAN HITLER! It was such a weird and sudden change that I’m amazed more people aren’t commenting on the level of crazy “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” that represented. Even more entertaining are the hot takes and think pieces about “Oligarchs control social media/public square.” Like, who owns Twitter now? Who owns Facebook? Is a single Billionaire somehow worse than an multinational conglomerate like WarnerMedia Discovery? Who has ALWAYS owned most of the US media (hint: Search William Randolph Hearst for [snip] and giggles). That was small news before, but now it is A BIG DEAL! that a billionaire might own a tech company?
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H'mm, Jack Dorsey tweets: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1510314535671922689?s=20&t=sJ1P0jo2RxQtgYEUf5HvPA
jack @jack the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it. 1:53 PM · Apr 2, 2022·Twitter Web App 13.1K Retweets 4,213 Quote Tweets 82.1K Likes
More:
Apr 25 I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness. jack?? @jack · Apr 25 The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step. jack?? @jack · Apr 25 In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness. jack?? @jack · Apr 25 Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also @paraga ’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path...I believe it with all my heart. jack?? @jack I’m so happy Twitter will continue to serve the public conversation. Around the world, and into the stars!
Note, he sits on the board that tried a poison pill then backed off as from hints legal actions began to rumble like distant but fast approaching thunder. KFkairosfocus_{April 29, 2022
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100 Facts Elon Musk-Owned Twitter Should Now Allow People To Say Without Getting Banned
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PS, one of the things incentivised is inflationary policy, which degrades money across time and artificially pushes up value of assets, which then neatly fits with set number thresholds for taxes, which nearly always lag impacts of inflation by years to decades. This has all sorts of what sweet nanny goat mouth run 'im belly style policies. Stealing from the future creates a false sense of advantage in the present.kairosfocus_{April 28, 2022
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F/N: mirror, mirror on the wall, is this confession by projection? https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/04/27/elizabeth-warren-we-need-big-tech-rules-to-break-elon-musks-stranglehold/
Melber asked, “You have warned about the growing power of big tech. What do you see in Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter?” Warren said, “I see that we need to make two big changes. The first one is we need a wealth tax in America. [--> you have one, and here the effect will predictably be to block inheritance in families, public expropriation of the family, which predictably too will target the middle classes and disincentivise saving and investment; which the wonks pushing this through their face cards full well know . . . why the hatred of families and thrift, savings, investment and building for generations to come? Securing, blessings for posterity . . . ] Let’s talk about how Elon’s purchase here was subsidized by tens of millions of people who have paid their taxes every year. The second part is we need rules of the road for big tech. But ultimately, what all of this boils down to is power. Who’s going to have the power in our country? Are we going to make these decisions as a democracy, or is this going to be Elon Musk all by himself off in a room, a bazillionaire who just plays by his own set of rules, and that’s really what’s at stake here.” She added, “We need rules of the road, and look. There are going to be rules. [--> where was the cry for rules from these when censorship was descending on social and other media, while Section 230 was being twisted into pretzels?] Like I said, the only question is will Elon Musk decide all of the rules by himself in a darkroom, or is it going to be the case that we’re going to decide this as a country? We’re going to make rules in a democracy.” [--> who, we? What are the rules behind targetted demonetisation, suppression of search ranking, shadow banning, demonisation and banning on flimsy excuse and reichstag fire incident or red guard tactics?] Warren added, “Rules of the road could help facilitate that kind of competition and frankly, break the stranglehold of someone like Elon Musk coming in and owning the whole thing.” [--> and if alleged autocracy is bad, is lawless ideological oligarchy any better?]
Cognitive dissonance-driven projection can be a useful tool for analysis, especially as an index of self referential absurdity. KFkairosfocus_{April 28, 2022
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Nunes is a Trumpoodle
Truth/Social just got the ultimate endorsement.jerry_{April 27, 2022
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Nunes is a Trumpoodle.Seversky_{April 27, 2022
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Trump’s Truth/Social launch - Devon Nunes video a few days ago. Before Twitter buyout. Wants Truth/Social to be competitor of Twitter. Instagram and Facebook. https://rumble.com/v124t4w-nunes-truth-social-fully-launched-for-iphone-users.html Rumble is a competitor to YouTube. People should also learn about The Cathedral!jerry_{April 27, 2022
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Not the Babylon Bee but could have been
Canada to build border wall, demand Twitter pay for it Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced rthis morning that he will work closely with the Canadian parliament to rush building a wall along the country's border with the United States to halt the mass immigration to Canada of American leftists, journalists, and celebrities fleeing after today's sale of Twitter to Elon Musk … Asked how much money the project was expected to cost, the prime minister responded, "President Trump campaigned that he would wall off Mexico, three thousand, one hundred kilometers, at a cost of ten billion dollars, so do that math yourself. Not cheap. But don't worry because I am going to get Twitter to pay for the wall." "How are you going to do that?" asked a reporter. "I've got a plan," Prime Minister Trudeau replied. "It's a great plan, a fantastic plan, really. Best plan ever. Huge ideas about that, huge. You'll see."
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It’s not just Twitter melting down. LoTT is keeping score. Here’s Amazon having problems. https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1519029650294378497 My theory - intelligence and mental health are not positively correlated and may actually be somewhat negatively correlated. Hence the mentally unstable get jobs in the digital world and that’s what we see in many cases. Aside: rumor of massive walkout at Twitter. Did Musk pay $43 billion just to kill it? How soon could it be up and running if such a walkout screwed its operations? https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-twitter-insider-leaks-audio-recording-of-companys-internal-all/jerry_{April 27, 2022
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“ looks more like advocacy. ” But it’s not? cf “only looks like it has been designed.” -___ Good one, LCD. Where were they found? In the trunk of a car?Belfast_{April 26, 2022
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Musk's Twitter Purchase Fails After 138,000 Board Votes Found OvernightLieutenant Commander Data_{April 26, 2022
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Jerry, if that is Dorsey who brought in a lot of the censorship and marginalisation, not a good sign. KFkairosfocus_{April 26, 2022
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Jack supports it.jerry_{April 26, 2022
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The Hill nails it: https://thehill.com/opinion/3462948-elon-musks-twitter-purchase-brings-free-speech-into-sharp-focus/
Elementally, there is a meaningful distinction between utterances in the public square — of which Twitter and other social media platforms now form a prominent part — and the journalistic and other developed “content” traditionally delivered by professional media. The internet flattened and democratized access to information, giving rise to independent citizen journalism, and simultaneously expanded the public square. This technological step-change blurred (but did not eliminate) the lines between substantive “content”— the product of investigative journalism, subject matter expertise, relevant personal and professional experience, and the like — and “expression” more broadly defined. The ideological fault lines revealed by the contretemps over Musk’s bid for Twitter highlights this confusion. Content moderation can be applied to either expression or content to the extent necessary to eliminate truly inappropriate or offensive material. In contrast with “straight” content moderation, content curation — the process of determining coverage, story selection, editing, fact-checking and the like, and which includes some measure of content moderation — best applies to the professional media output of a publisher, not to posts on a social platform. Expression, in contrast with the standards expected of published media, need neither be informed nor even defensible; at its best, expression can serve as a catalyst for published content, informing professional media hypotheses, which are subsequently confirmed or refuted through research and investigation. Suppressing expression not only inhibits speech; it suffocates the “Fourth Estate” by denying it the oxygen necessary to produce output intrinsic to public discourse. That trust in media currently sits at all-time lows is a given; various reasons are offered for declining trust in the media. Many believe that journalism has strayed from a “just the facts” approach marked by relatively unbiased inquiry and transformed into something that looks more like advocacy. This colors not only the lens through which news is reported — see the rise of so-called “news analysis” features in major newspapers — but also what is deemed newsworthy. This inverts the practice of journalism into an inductive discipline, whereby reporting output conforms to a narrative, rather than how consumers of media understand (and prefer) it to work: as the result of a deductive, fact-driven empirical inquiry. When media content is seen as predetermined, faith in the profession and its contrivances are compromised. As this same approach has been applied to expression on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter over the past several years, user satisfaction and engagement have suffered. A December 2021 poll by The Washington Post reported that 72 percent of those surveyed distrusted Facebook; a similar poll undertaken by Newsweek in October 2020 revealed that registered U.S. voters distrusted Twitter even more than Facebook. Restoring trust in media requires drawing a clear, good-faith distinction between the standards that should apply to expression and media content. Expression is the easier of the two: It should be free, full stop. It’s why we have a First Amendment — and the reason that it is listed first among our enumerated Bill of Rights. This means putting an end to the suspensions, shadow-banning, and other forms of speech suppression — molding content in a manner more appropriate to a publisher — by Twitter and other social media companies. Moderation of genuinely objectionable content should not be controversial; banning The New York Post and The Babylon Bee for material out of favor with progressives most certainly is — or should be. These platforms maintain they are not publishers as described in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; they can prove it by resisting calls for “content moderation” which seek to suppress expression by conflating curation with the actual moderation of content. Resurrecting the traditional respect accorded professional media — and reversing declining standards in content curation — is the greater challenge. There are no halcyon days of appropriately and expertly produced content to which we may return; absent the aforementioned checks and balances of technology-enabled distributed journalism, historically the ability to challenge narratives was limited. The biases of the past may not have been as overt — and a less concentrated media landscape may still have conveyed “all the news fit to print” in the aggregate, albeit across multiple outlets — but they were undoubtedly present. Still, even today one would hope a journalistic ethos and level of professional integrity exists capable of delivering the curated content necessary to allow major media outlets to recover such lost respect.
In reality, only repentance, reformation and reconciliation [sometimes involving restitution for harm done] can restore innocence, and restored innocence is never the same as original purity. HT, News. KF PS, As the media are a key means by which the public learns and understands the business of democratic self government, the betrayal of trust by the media and elites including education institutions is misanthropic and anti civilisational. Hence the constellation of strategic issues in the themes tied to this OP. We are at kairos and it will be critical to see whether Twitter expels Musk and returns to business as usual. His apparent taking private looks like he intends to do major and difficult reforms. We can expect that this former darling of climate change thought and policy will be demonised and attacked without regard to the right of innocent reputation or respect for truth. A pattern we have seen all too much of.kairosfocus_{April 26, 2022
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Just published: Muskageddon! Elon Musk, world’s richest man, now owns Twitter And wants it to be more of a free speech platform. How will that go? https://mindmatters.ai/2022/04/muskageddon-elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-now-owns-twitter/ It’s almost as if free speech was a brand new idea, like Tesla. Actually, it’s not.News_{April 26, 2022
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