Elon Musk and the revenge of the gatekeepers – spiked
Not that large corporations need much encouragement. Within days of Musk s takeover, Twitter s 20 largest advertisers including United Airlines, General Motors, Anheuser-Busch, Disney and Procter & Gamble confirmed that they were either considering a spending pause on Twitter advertising or had already implemented one.
In effect, an alliance of campaigning NGOs, the mainstream media, woke corporations and sections of the American political establishment have declared war on Musk. They are determined for Twitter to remain an intensely regulated social-media platform. Essentially, this coalition wants to ensure that the woke elites retain their role as social media s gatekeepers.
Who woulda thunk it? Big corporations and the government gang up to squash free speech aided and abetted by the *Left*? Curiouser and curiouser. To defend free speech is left to the Right? So it seems. Those of us with big mouths and no ability to control them, on the Left and Right, must unite to try to stop this effort which in the end is about controlling what we think, when we think it and ultimately even our ability to think period. And why not? Thinking gets in the way of working, at least most working. Of course, there will always be room for a few “innovators,” at least until they figure out how to do that by AI. Interesting times.