I believe the question about Twitter is "Why do you trust Musk?"

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17. It looks as though the conversation is shifting to

two fundamental, but opposing factions: cede disputed ground (platform I suppose, in this case) to the opposition, or remain and defend the disputed ground. And it's heartening to hear good points brought up by both sides of the argument.

Twitter's not my bag. I come across links and read them, but I lack any real interest in the platform. I'm not making a moral or social choice by avoiding it, it's just not my thing, so I don't really have a dog in this hunt. But I can't help but think back to the early nineties.

Many of us watched in real time as hate radio gobbled almost the entirety of talk radio immediately after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, and narrowed the minds of a vast swath of their targeted demographics, both directly and (more insidiously) indirectly (sourced from FAIR). A few incursions into this fiercely held territory by liberal voices were quickly rendered moot with efficient PR counters by the right wing media moguls who had called dibs (again, sourced from FAIR).

I'd certainly hate to see the right wing mouth machine conquer another medium at the expense of rational and dissenting voices. Though the internet can still seem as wide and open as the Wild West did in the first half of the nineteenth century, the right-wing believes itself inheritor to a manifest destiny, and will use and exploit any medium it can effectively strengthen itself.