The Washington Post, a newspaper owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, published an op-ed from former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao calling for regulations “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication” — without a trace of irony.
Every major social media platform is already owned by billionaires, including the Saudi Arabian prince Al Waleed bin Talal, and this has been the case since the earliest years of those platforms.
It wasn’t until self-declared free speech absolutist Elon Musk became the largest shareholder in Twitter that the outcry from regime elites, of which Pao’s article is a part, started.
Pao is horrified by the prospect of Musk influencing Twitter, at once arguing that social media companies are “free to establish some limits” on speech (as Pao herself notoriously did as CEO of the previously free speech-friendly Reddit) while fretting that Musk will use his influence to relax those limits. Read the rest at breitbart.com.
Restricting speech is good only if the lefties are restricting OUR speech. Of course, the lefties can say any nutty thing they want or create insane laws that destroy our rights and that’s A-OK.
F**k Biden! F**k the lefty media! And f**k all RINOs and all members of the DemocRAT-Communist Party.