Consider The Buyer

(Opinion)

The purchase of the recently declining Twitter platform by the world's richest person has the massive company's hard Left leaders shocked, dismayed, and dusting off their resumes. I'm wondering why. 

Consider the buyer. Space X and Tesla's Elon Musk has already done some super great and benevolent stuff to improve the lives of millions of folks around the world. His tenacious independence, personal generosity, future vision, and uncanny ability to assemble stellar teams of achieving leaders is unprecedented and remarkable. So, exactly how is Musk bad news, and for who?

If the Twitter leadership is dedicated to the core value of free speech in the public discourse, operating a platform that essentially represents the national town square, why are some folks panicked with worry?

If Twitter leaders strive for an objective, fair, and open culture that encourages voices from all views and perspectives of social topics, what's the big concern? 

But, this is the problem, isn't it? The Twitter platform has been infamously biased in practice, public profile, and official policy. Twitter has systematically and unabashedly banned, censored, and cancelled based on political agenda, common narrative, and capricious partisan prejudice. Twitter's arbitrary town square dominance has been anything but square business, First Amendment friendly, or fair. Twitter's journalistic standards are, in fact, oblique and therefore indecernible.

Now, by making the platform's algorithms open source and transparent, a new owner wants to make the globally influential medium better, more consistent, responsible to the public. And, dare we say it, ultimately more ethical.

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