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> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech Billionaires like the Mercer family, who fund Par
by rodgerd 6y ago
> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech
Billionaires like the Mercer family, who fund Parler?
You're on a site run as part of the outreach for a VC firm where the owners are best buds with Peter Theil, Facebook board member, early Trump backer, a billionaire who literally hunted for a chance to sue a news organization out of existence because he didn't like a story they wrote about him; a site where a large number of the companies they fund and people who comment are intimately involved with AdTech and/or social media.
And you're only now noticing that billionaires have an unreasonable sway on discourse?
You didn't notice that not only does Rupert Murdoch own print press, book publishing, an TV all over the English-speaking world? You didn't notice the Mercer family also setting up Cambridge Analytica and being principal backers of Brexit?