Yeah the Google -> Alphabet, Facebook -> Meta, Twitter -> X happened all pretty close to one another. I mean hey, I can understand why someone like Blackwater

Yeah the Google -> Alphabet, Facebook -> Meta, Twitter -> X happened all pretty close to one another. I mean hey, I can understand why someone like Blackwater renamed themselves to the more innocuous-sounding “Academi” LOL. But why does the media go along with it? For the same reason they go along with other things, like covering Trump 24/7 in 2015-2016 even though they hated him. The incentives push them that way. A lot of things just go on autopilot. “This is what everyone is doing so we must too. This is the controversy so we must cover it before others do”. I had a conversation about Capitalism and Freedom of Speech with Noam Chomsky twice on my show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JtMSpMrOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JtMSpMrOw (Earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPZ8rSESZo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUPZ8rSESZo) It’s an emergent behavior of the system. Here is George Carlin with a darker take than me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0OJEFlq7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0OJEFlq7A