“It is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. What happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?”

Thus begins my quickly turned around guest essay in this morning’s New York Times about Musk, the arsonist-to-firefighter pipeline, and why truly free speech is what the Musks of the world fear.

Check it out here:

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion

“It doesn’t have to be this way,” writes @AnandWrites. “We can have nice things. But we’re going to have to learn to see through the fraudulent stories that elevate figures like Musk into heroes.” Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a SolutionWhat happens when the incarnation of a problem buys the right to decide what the problem is and how to fix it?nyti.ms

April 26th 2022

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