{"id":438060,"date":"2022-04-27T03:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T00:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lefts-objection-to-elon-musk-is-about-one-thing-they-want-to-control-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T00:04:32","slug":"lefts-objection-to-elon-musk-is-about-one-thing-they-want-to-control-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lefts-objection-to-elon-musk-is-about-one-thing-they-want-to-control-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"#Left&#8217;s objection to Elon Musk is about one thing, they want to control speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22be9ec4d89\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22be9ec4d89\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lefts-objection-to-elon-musk-is-about-one-thing-they-want-to-control-speech\/#%E2%80%9CLefts_objection_to_Elon_Musk_is_about_one_thing_they_want_to_control_speech%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Left&#8217;s objection to Elon Musk is about one thing, they want to control speech&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLefts_objection_to_Elon_Musk_is_about_one_thing_they_want_to_control_speech%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Left&#8217;s objection to Elon Musk is about one thing, they want to control speech&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Three weeks ago, a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.piratewires.com\/p\/king-shit?s=w\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0that Elon Musk, billionaire S\u2013tposting God of Silicon Valley, had acquired over 9% of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, making him the company\u2019s largest shareholder and setting in motion a chain of events that led, ultimately, to yesterday\u2019s outright\u00a0purchase\u00a0of the now $44 billion company. In a press release, Elon shared his goals for the platform, which echoed the goals he\u2019s shared all month:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFree speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated. I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom,\u201d \u201copen source <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cman, I really hate these spam bots.\u201d The media\u2019s reaction to these ambitions was instant and apoplectic. They were akin, we were told,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffjarvis\/status\/1514578609754812419?s=20&amp;t=x9jKT37HJvqHXxzq3Cq8tg\">to literal Nazism<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Clown World. Boy, do we have ground to cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-03-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk\" class=\"wp-image-22047434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-03-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-03-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-03-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk called free speech \u201cthe bedrock of a functioning democracy.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The social internet is always a Dal\u00ed painting\u2014surreal and horrifying and beautiful. A million crazy people screaming over nonsense, with funny jokes or anecdotes mixed in, fortune cookie observations, legitimate political h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>enings, and \u201cwords are violence\u201d hall monitors from The Washington Post waging daily information war on trolls and Russian bots and okay actually just a lot of regular people with whom they disagree, or simply don\u2019t like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But even by the gutter standards we\u2019ve come to accept from media, this has been a month for the books.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the gate, it was incoherent fury, with no consensus motive. We were told that Elon, who explicitly opposes censorship, intended to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aprilaser\/status\/1511007504200785927?s=11&amp;t=jmFi_4qUsqFY8W0QfovNcA\">deplatform<\/a>, and ultimately destroy, all of his critics, who are themselves explicitly in favor of censorship. We were told that Elon was building a propaganda engine. We were told that Twitter, which was until last week apparently a peaceful, utopian haven for principled discourse, would now\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anildash\/status\/1511324711908777988?s=20&amp;t=XxuHT7PGHPcHSfrLTmlL3A\">revert<\/a>\u00a0to some earlier, imagined world of carnage (very bad tweets). The case was made, with zero evidence, that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anildash\/status\/1511327521190645774?s=20&amp;t=k_lW_DaPDoiH1ucZ5imSsg\">Elon is a racist<\/a>. It was all just table stakes, really.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffjarvis\/status\/1514578609754812419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.16-PM.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk related tweets\" class=\"wp-image-22048691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.16-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.16-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.16-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.16-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kevin McHale tweeted his thoughts about the \u201cend\u201d of Twitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"970\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?w=970\" alt=\"Elon Musk related tweets\" class=\"wp-image-22048692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1940 1940w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1455 1455w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=970 970w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=485 485w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.07.28-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\"\/><figcaption>Actress Jameela Jamil wishes Twitter users the \u201cbest of luck\u201d. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.05.54-PM.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk related tweets\" class=\"wp-image-22048693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.05.54-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.05.54-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.05.54-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-26-at-4.05.54-PM.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Joy-Ann Reid does not seem pleased with Musk\u2019s leadership. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a week or so, in brutal, Darwinian competition for attention, arguments against Musk blossomed into something\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micsolana\/status\/1518606890724380675?s=20&amp;t=74hsGiwM3Y6Mufps86NXkQ\">more colorful<\/a>. From\u00a0Axios, a company committed in writing to never sharing an opinion, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/free-speech-decentralized-web-3-twitter-elon-musk-13ac517e-6685-4ab7-99d3-7b73498e4475.html\">it was \u201creported\u201d<\/a> that Elon, once likened to Iron Man, was now behaving \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1514610430194315274?s=20&amp;t=E7WC9w8R7-AIMIad76U0Ig\">like a supervillain.<\/a>\u201d His ownership of Twitter would lead to World War III,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Leavitt\/status\/1514641263009669134?s=20&amp;t=tYdr6gS35URX3sIUAtmNtQ\">the case was made elsewhere<\/a>. In one of my favorite moments of derangement, NPR helpfully reminded us that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/18\/1093380832\/a-look-at-elon-musk-and-what-he-represents\">Elon is an imperialist<\/a>. The basis for such an incredible charge? In the tradition of America\u2019s Apollo Moon landing, one of the most celebrated accomplishments in human history, Elon wants to settle Mars, an uninhabited desert planet 155 million miles from Earth. This is just like colonial-era Britain\u2019s brutal conquest of half the world, when you think about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The takes were all extraordinarily stupid, and yes, I loved every single one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The worst people on the internet, delirious with rage, couldn\u2019t stop themselves from saying the dumbest things they\u2019ve ever said since last week and listen<em>,\u00a0<\/em>again, yes,\u00a0<em>I love this<\/em>. But as funny as the insanity is, it\u2019s important to remember it\u2019s all just that\u2014insane. Irrelevant. Not remotely about what is actually at stake.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-10.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk\" class=\"wp-image-22047396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk will take over Twitter in a $44 billion deal. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The central tension of this discourse has nothing to do with racism or violence or anti-Martian colonialistic sentiment. The collective meltdown over Elon\u2019s Twitter coup is likewise not about the dangers of rich people buying media platforms, a budding take growing in popularity, with innovators of the meme <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/lessons-from-elon-musk-s-imminent-acquisition-of-twitter\">including most recently The Information\u2019s\u00a0Jessica Lessin<\/a>. After all, if \u201crich people buying media platforms\u201d were a serious concern, we probably would have heard more about it last month, when every major media platform was \u2026 already owned by rich people.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is there\u2019s only one thing this is really about and that\u2019s free speech. Still. It\u2019s always just that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elon has repeatedly stated his goal of guaranteeing freedom of political dissent, which he considers essential to the functioning of our democracy. This is what his detractors are reacting to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/barack-obama-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama\" class=\"wp-image-22047459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/barack-obama-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/barack-obama-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/barack-obama-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the dangers of social media at Stanford last week. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In straight reporting, from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/free-speech-decentralized-web-3-twitter-elon-musk-13ac517e-6685-4ab7-99d3-7b73498e4475.html\">Axios<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/04\/business\/twitter-elon-musk-directors.html\">The New York Times<\/a>, the \u201cuntethered\u201d freedom to speak is now characterized as a radical position. In the pages of\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2022\/04\/08\/musk-twitter-equity-discrimination-speech\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, there was a call for direct government intervention in our speech platforms. Just a crazy op-ed? I would have thought perhaps, prayed, and called it a night. But then-President Obama entered the fray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the former president flew to Stanford and delivered an\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ExEApwbhfqQ\">hour-long speech<\/a>\u00a0on the dangers of social media. While not entirely horrible, the highlight was this: After referring to himself as something very close to a free speech \u201cabsolutist,\u201d the term we now use for people who simply believe in regular free speech, Obama openly toyed with the concept of government intervention on our speech platforms. The rules he would consider were left vague, but included anything that \u201chelped democracy,\u201d the rule of law, and recognized the rights, freedoms, and dignity of all citizens. Of course, to achieve goals like this, almost any draconian censorship can be justified.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Obama\u2019s tactics here are of a kind we\u2019ve seen from media and government for the last five years. No laws were plainly proposed, because no law concerning the regulation of speech can be easily enacted\u2014it\u2019s that pesky Constitution, you see. Obama\u2019s goal was to bully tech workers into doing censorship on our government\u2019s behalf, which is why his chosen audience was the next generation of Google engineers rather than Congress. Until recently, the legal loophole for would-be censors in government was simply asking, or threatening, a bunch of billionaires in tech to do it on your behalf. Today, at least one billionaire stands apart.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, is the world about to end? I think it probably won\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, what we\u2019re about to get is drama. I mean all-caps DRAMA. From media to government, there are going to be takes like you have never seen. The technology industry\u2019s craziest employees, themselves a subset of the craziest people alive, will begin to protest in all manner of colorful ways. This will happen at Twitter, where we can expect resignations, shamings, calls for Elon to be held accountable, and beyond. There will be countless interviews on such heady topics as Power and Privilege at The Verge or whatever other anti-tech tech blog you love to hate (they\u2019re literally all the same). You thought Jack Dorsey\u2019s performance before Congress was a wild ride? Elon, whom congressional Democrats have made a career of attacking for attention, just bought himself a season pass to our endless parade of useless Senate hearings. Will we learn anything important? Of course not. But will there be a show?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friends, it will be the greatest pop-cultural event of the century. \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d\u00a0<em>could never.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In terms of strategic particulars, it\u2019s unclear what Elon will do. The man is good, but let\u2019s be real: He\u2019s\u00a0<em>chaotic<\/em>\u00a0good. Much has been said of the fact that his buying Twitter makes no clear, slam-dunk business sense. This has been pointed out as both evidence he is stupid, and evidence he is brilliant but evil. In fact, Elon is a values-driven ideologue who instantiates his values in the form of companies, which usually succeed. We\u2019ve seen him realize his goals, or tremendous efforts towards them, in payments, energy, and space. Now, the man has set his mind to speech. So speech will be the future\u2014or, a world of freer speech is certainly the world he\u2019ll work toward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-02-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Elon Musk\" class=\"wp-image-22047474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-02-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-02-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-02-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Numerous liberals expressed frustration over Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of our trend lines have drifted toward authoritarianism, not just domestically or internationally at this moment, but historically. Freedom is an incredible aberration, and while it is a right, it doesn\u2019t come without a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So thank you, Elon. If you screw this up we\u2019re probably doomed. No pressure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bariweiss.substack.com\/p\/elon-conquers-the-twitterverse?s=w\">from Bari Weiss\u2019 Common Sense<\/a>, bariweiss.substack.com<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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