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If our free speech rights depend on the whims of billionaire media owners we don't have those rights in any meaningful sense. I don't think that Twitter changin

• TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  Twitter is just one, now fully exposed, symptom of a larger problem, which will be easier to deal with now that more people are watching.
• throwawaylinux 4y ago
  It definitely moved the needle as you can see from the wailing and gnashing of teeth by a lot of the billionaire owned politicians, bureaucrats, institutions, and legacy media corporate "journalists". It's funny how angrily and desperately they insist that nothing really changed and everything is a "nothing-burger", but they're gaslighting you as usual. Speech and public opinion is still under the control of billionaires, and Musk is not likely to be particularly less greedy, self-serving, or egomaniacal as Murdoch or Soros or Bezos, but he is not in lock step with them. The enemy of my enemy is... quite possibly still my enemy, but it's beautiful to watch them fight one another. And if it can distract them from starting new wars or stealing more money and rights from people for just one minute, that's a wonderful bonus.
• TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  "Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannoy humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the person who is not afraid anymore." —Cesar Chavez