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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jacobin and The Nation, taking into consideration all the criticisms, think the twitter files are important.  Among other things, they are reasonably concerned that the entanglements revealed in the files could one day be turned against the left.[/quote]

Let's take a look at that...

Jacobin, in the span of 10 days, went from Musk's twitter being the beacon of free speech and free press https://jacobin.com/2022/12/twitter-files-hunter-biden-social-media-censorship-press-freedom to red flags and warnings of twitter's dystopian censorship of journalists. https://jacobin.com/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-censorship-journalist-account-suspension-liberal-hypocrisy

So which Jacobin did you mean?[/quote]

The only acceptable answer is that initially Jacobin got it wrong.  They overestimated Musk and thought his motives were genuine and altruistic and well-thought-out.  But then they saw Musk censoring journalists, amplifying far right conspiracy theorists, and engaging in petty, childish exchanges, while completely screwing the pooch on how to run Twitter, and realized they had Musk all wrong.

That's what the PP should be understanding as well, because that's the only real truth here.[/quote]

Ehhh....  many of us saw the warning signs even as Jacobin and others were hyping Musk.  We raised the red flags, but were dismissed and mocked for it.  We were right, as we almost always are.  In fact, I got banned from Twitter for raising concerns about it back in November shortly after Musk took over.  Concerns that were and still are 100% accurate.[/quote]

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