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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Truth Social's failed rollout was entirely predictable. It fits the pattern of Donald Trump's broken promises and hairbrained schemes: He'll roll out some overhyped idea, hire some sycophant to execute it, and lose interest when it fails to catch fire. Then he'll cast blame or simply ignore it, and move on to the empty promotion.
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A lot of people are just plain sick of hate. They’re sick of political manipulation. They miss the days when social media sites were just about sharing goofy pictures and personal updates with trusted friends and family, or networking for business. … That’s why there’s a real market for a different kind of social media with one simple ground rule: No politics, period.
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I watched most of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ inauguration Wednesday, and I was struck by one thing. … The best way to describe it is feeling like a fever had broken: that moment when you’re lying in your bed, exhausted from fighting a really bad case of the flu, but the chills are gone, the headache had subsided, and you’re no longer shivering. When you feel weak from the fight, but no longer weak from the disease.
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Donald Trump refuses to just go away and let us live our lives in peace. His chaos has left us in a continual state of anxiety that metastasized into trauma. … We want that trauma to end. If Trump just retired to a quiet life at Mar-a-Lago and played golf every day for the rest of his life, we might not feel that justice was done, but at least we might be able to start feeling safe again. … I just want him to leave us the hell alone.
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Censorship of hate speech doesn’t violate the “marketplace of ideas” principle. That concept assumes you’re talking about rational ideas, not incitement to hatred and violence. If someone enters a marketplace and starts making false accusations about a vendor and whipping the crowd into such a frenzy he can’t do business — or inciting them to overturn his stand — THAT’S what suppression looks like. That’s REAL censorship.
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