Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter isn't good business. It's a vanity project for a wealthy control freak who didn't like the social media site's rules, so he bought it in order to change them.
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Biden used his State of the Union address to call for “Americans to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again.” First of all, this is insulting. We HAVE been working, and if Biden hasn’t noticed, he hasn’t been paying attention. Second, how and where employees work should be a decision made by those workers and their employers — not by government. Third, it’s just plain clueless.
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It’s 40 years this spring since I graduated from high school, and it’s easy to feel old when you realize how much the world has changed during those years. But if you really want to feel old, compare the changes in the past 40 years with those that occurred in the four decades before that!
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Is it a coincidence that Comcast’s data caps suddenly appeared during in the midst of this pandemic, when workers are more dependent than ever on the internet? Are they just sticking it to remote workers and others isolated during the crisis, or is there some other motivation?
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We Americans like to think of ourselves as innovators, people who “think outside the box.” We laud inventors and original thinkers... after they’ve become mainstream. But for the most part, we’re creatures of habit. We like the familiar, the tried and true. Heck, we even like the “tried” better than the untried, even if it’s not so true. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
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Yes, people have a right to hold false opinions and a right to share those opinions, no matter how damaging they may be. But Twitter is under no obligation to validate those opinions by granting them an air of authority via a blue checkmark — and it shouldn’t. Doing so is not only highly irresponsible, it verifies something else: That Twitter isn’t about truth, it’s about popularity.
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