{"id":18707,"date":"2022-04-27T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18707"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:34:42","slug":"free-speech-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/free-speech-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Speech or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the various talking heads screech and howl about Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter has been immensely amusing.\u00a0 The lack of self-awareness (or the absolute lack of honesty, whichever it really is) has been breathtaking.\u00a0 All of the things they are accusing Elon Musk of planning to do are all things they have been doing to conservative Twitter users for years.\u00a0 Projection.<\/p>\n<p>But all of this is happening at the same time that psychopaths in the administration, the Europeans and lying hypocrites like Obama are calling for even more restrictions on free speech.\u00a0 Their smokescreen around misinformation and disinformation is a pretext for ending free speech.\u00a0 They want to completely control the narrative around government actions like the COVID lockdowns and the BLM riots.<\/p>\n<p>The timing of Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter may be quite inconvenient for the Democrats.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing they were depending on staging some shenanigans around the election to try and steal some seats.\u00a0 If Twitter can\u2019t be completely controlled it might interfere with their illicit operations.\u00a0 And with Rumble now as an alternative to YouTube it seems possible that millions of people could be reached with information on all the dirt that is coming out on Hunter Biden, the election fraud investigations, the COVID disaster and all the bad news for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re living in interesting times.\u00a0 The outrageous abuses that have occurred in the last two years, the lockdowns, the riots, voter fraud, the breakdown of law and order and now the stagflation crisis have shocked the usually complacent population into realizing just how radical the Left has become.\u00a0 But at the same time the Left now owns all the power centers in the United States, and indeed the whole western world.\u00a0 Because of this it may no longer be possible to fix our system.<\/p>\n<p>We will have to watch from now to election day to see if the voter outrage will provide a powerful rejection of Democrat rule.\u00a0 And then if it does occur, we have to watch what the Republicans can do with their new power over Congress to shape the actions of Biden\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Twitter could play a role in helping people survive the rest of the Biden presidency.\u00a0 If Musk can figure out a way to protect the Right from the crazies that run Twitter, then it really will be that public square he\u2019s always talking about.\u00a0 And without the crazies putting their thumbs on the scale, who knows, it might even be a place where little fish like me could get heard.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll hear more about all of this soon enough.\u00a0 Some early signs to watch for will be if Musk reinstates all the thousands of conservative accounts that were cancelled during the COVID pandemic and during the election fraud dust ups.\u00a0 The next thing to watch after that is how much flak he gets from the government agencies trying to prevent free speech.\u00a0 The Europeans are erecting barriers to free speech.\u00a0 Twitter might have to build a wall isolating them from \u201cdisinformation.\u201d\u00a0 If he doesn\u2019t then the European standards will destroy Twitter as a free speech site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the various talking heads screech and howl about Musk\u2019s purchase of Twitter has been immensely amusing.\u00a0 The lack of self-awareness (or the absolute lack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2517,139,466],"class_list":["post-18707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-elon-musk","tag-fake-news","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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