Three things:
1. Implies he’s fine w China, Russia etc dictating his policies, bc their laws authorize censorship, & those laws must be the will of the people
2. Implies he’ll be OK if US govt censors Twitter
2. You can become incredibly rich & still not know how to think https://t.co/I81WCvRjCv
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 26, 2022
When Elon Musk was growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, various combinations of ‘but it’s the law’ and ‘will of the people’ were the English-ancestry minority’s go-to explanation to outsiders. The Boers were stone cold bigots, the Not-Whites were impossible, what could an embattled minority of pale-skinned Anglicans be expected to do about the unfairness of it all?…
I thought I might be the only one biased by such memories, but then a whole bunch of twitter feeds pointed out Ben Shapiro’s response to Mr. Musk:
a truth and reconciliation commission for twitter is the funniest thing i’ve read today, bravo pic.twitter.com/6ThYGkKxxB
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) April 26, 2022