{"id":81563,"date":"2022-04-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81563"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:50:13","slug":"musk-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81563","title":{"rendered":"Musk In The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An Inigo Montoya moment:<\/p>\n

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Democracy. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.<\/p>\n

Of course, what frightens Max Boot is having anything he says face a challenge. Content moderation is especially cool if it means you don’t have to face any discontent. Boot’s preferred usage is a Boot on the throat.<\/p>\n

I am not sure what I think about Elon Musk generally. One could argue he’s built his fortune by using government subsidies and cronyism, as he clearly has, but it’s also undeniable he’s building useful things. And it’s absolutely undeniable that he has all the right enemies. And the cognitive dissonance is off the damned charts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Does Musk want to take over Twitter? I don\u2019t think so. The company\u2019s financials aren\u2019t great, and running social media companies is hard. The car crash that is former President Donald Trump\u2019s social media experiment, Truth Social, is a cautionary tale for Musk. Does Musk want to name some people to Twitter\u2019s board of directors? Maybe. That would allow him to have some say over its affairs without spending too much time or money.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s worrisome, because it\u2019s not ideal to have a free speech absolutist who isn\u2019t absolutely in favor of free speech at the helm of \u2014 or even close to \u2014 a media company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So where is Timothy O’Brien making this argument? Bloomberg. Who runs Bloomberg? A billionaire who happened to be a presidential candidate in the last cycle. We live in an unserious world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Inigo Montoya moment: Democracy. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means. Of course, what frightens Max Boot is having anything he says face a challenge. Content moderation is especially cool if it means you don’t have to face any discontent. Boot’s preferred usage is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,108,434,18,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled","category-chanting-points-memo","category-mr-d","category-pc","category-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81566,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81563\/revisions\/81566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}