Ep 231) Why the Left Is Melting Down Now That Musk Officially Owns Twitter

The Jacob Johnston Show

If you haven't noticed, when media personalities talk about Elon Must bringing back free speech to Twitter, they use air quotes. The left hates free speed, they hate democracy in general. For a democracy to thrive you need free speech, a well-informed voter, and a fair election. The left attacks these in their bid to undermine democracy.

The left for the last decade has been working hard to implement CCP-style censorship online. They classified any disagreement with leftist claims as hate speech or misinformation to justify censorship, to justify de-platforming people to block participation in public debates. Content creators who gained a following would be promptly banned, the remaining conservatives would be shadowbanned. The low engagement caused by people not being able to see what conservatives were posting would then be used for propaganda claims that conservative content and ideas were unpopular.

The censorship would also allow democrats to block and suppress any information that if the general public knew, would mean democrats could never win elections. It's all been about controlling what you're allowed to think, say, and do, forced conformity or de-platformed was the choices.

Any attempts to build alternative platforms were difficult, Apple and Google were able to block them from the app stores to decrease awareness of alternatives and to force censorship on alternative platforms as conditions to remain in the app stores. But buying Twitter creates a censorship challenge for the left, Twitter is well established, has dedicated users, and many have built their entire careers and following on Twitter. Suddenly banning it from the app store is not an option, at least not yet.

Free speech returning to Twitter demolishes information censorship control and narrative control. Gone are the days the left can push propaganda unchallenged. You might think that Facebook is the left's alternative, but with Facebook, they have to pay to reach more than 3-5% of their followers.

Ultimately, why the left is freaking out because free speech shines a light on the corrupt and exposes liars for what they are. The Democrat's electability depends on being able to operate in darkness and keeping the public as uninformed as possible. A massive blow has been struck against the authoritarian agenda, against the Great Reset.

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