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Chris Trottier

BuzzFeed finally caught on that the rest of Twitter's biggest shareholders are rotten to the core, and that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in particular is no guardian of progressive values.

buzzfeednews.com/article/richa

6 May 2022 at 3:54 | Open on mastodon.social
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Chris Trottier

I mentioned Prince Alwaleed two weeks ago, and many of Twitter's biggest cheerleaders took acception:

"Prince Alwaleed is a good guy! He's misunderstood! MBZ put him in prison! You're an Islamophobe for criticizing this billionaire!"

6 May 2022 at 4:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Trottier

Now Elon Musk is taking over Twitter with Saudi and Qatari money. Now Prince Alwaleed is calling Musk his "new" friend.

Remember, the Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist.

Twitter's really protecting free speech?

6 May 2022 at 4:02 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Trottier

Call me crazy, but maybe free speech isn't about choosing the "right" billionaire or government to protect it.

Maybe if we want free speech, we should make it impossible for billionaires and governments to shut it down.

6 May 2022 at 4:04 | Open on mastodon.social
Oblomov

@atomicpoet I always found the free speech claim to be risible, and anybody falling for it to be either idiotic or in bad faith. As we're getting closer to the deal, the latter has become the most plausible explanation in basically every message I've found in support for the buyout with the grass speech excuse

6 May 2022 at 4:12 | Open on sociale.network
Oblomov

@atomicpoet (I like how my cellphone guessed grass instead of free)

6 May 2022 at 4:30 | Open on sociale.network
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