Elon Musk Could Save Society from Those Looking to Control It – Opinion

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hasn’t even done anything with it yet, but after effectively becoming the largest shareholder of Twitter, a lot of doors that were locked shut suddenly flew open.

Thomas LaDuke wrote Monday morning that Musk, who is the world’s richest man, used his money to buy large shares of one of most important and yet diseased social networking sites in the west. He obtained 9.2 percent of the company, in fact, and the resulting control shift sent Twitter’s stock skyrocket like a SpaceX rocket a whopping 25 percent.

(BREAKING: Elon Musk Buys Billions of Stock in Twitter).

The move had been teased with Musk making the statement that “free speech is essential to a functioning Democracy” followed by questions about what should be done about Twitter, the “de facto public town square.” Musk, as he tends to do, made a move that changes everything not long after.

Now, the question is: What will Musk do to change? And how can that impact us?

To begin, it is important to remember something another famous person said. The comedian Dave Chappelle commented that he was being mobbed by transgender activists on Twitter after being accused of being “transphobic.” He commented that he didn’t care, because Twitter isn’t a real place, and he’s right.

It doesn’t mean it can’t be.

For years, people were thrown off the platform for merely saying things that Twitter’s rubbed the hard-left sentiments of its hard-left employees the wrong way. It became increasingly clear that Twitter’s terms of service were, like the pirate’s code, more guidelines than actual rules. A Twitter employee can ban someone who says something harmful to their ego or label them as dangerous.

Carpe Donktum is a notable conservative meme creator who created many funny and powerful videos making the left and Trump seem bad. Donktum never actually did anything wrong and if he broke any rules he complied with Twitter’s takedown demands. At one point, he made a hilarious video about CNN’s habit of misreporting the news. Twitter advised him to delete the video, as Donktum requested. Twitter gave him a suspended notice a few days after the original video was posted. There wasn’t any way for him or his account to be restored.

Jennifer Van Laar stated at the time that Donktum was banned from Twitter in 2020, even though he had followed every instruction on Twitter. He was banned, not for breaking any rules but because he was capable of doing something the left couldn’t do, and that was effectively making people laugh at his political opposites.

This was two years ago in 2018. I had covered the fact that Twitter’s bias had gotten out of control and actual threats against right-wing children were being made. Twitter did absolutely nothing. They were also suspending conservatives who stated that Islamic extremists had committed violence against innocent people. Project Veritas video footage also showed workers admitting that they had banned pro-Trump tweeters from the platform simply for being pro-Trump.

Most recently, the satirists at Babylon Bee had their account suspended for making a joke about Rachel Levine, the transgender activist currently serving as our nation’s Assistant Secretary of Health, being “man of the year.” They’ve refused to take the offending tweet down.

Chappelle’s comment that Twitter isn’t a real place is correct, but that statement is only correct because the town square is controlled so tightly by leftists that the conversation became artificial. The platform has fewer left-leaning voices than it did a decade ago, and the content of those who are there is limited.

Musk is able to end the dictatorial hold that has been placed on conversations, which seems to be his goal.

How or when he’ll start to do this is still up in the air, but judging by Musk’s love of doing things instead of complaining about them, the changes may happen rapidly. When they do, the town square will become more full than it’s ever been, and what’s more, even louder than before.

The home-field advantage of leftists in Twitter is no longer an advantage. They can’t rely on Twitter to silence their opposition for them, and conversations will have to take place on equal ground. Many of those who were kicked off the platform will come flooding back and the left will be forced to engage with more voices who won’t be silenced for speaking the truth now. For a time, the platform will become a warzone of ideas that I’m not sure the radical leftists that rule the platform can win.

I’ve spoken before of a second Rennaisance that would need to occur in our society in order to get it back on track. It would begin when the people decide they’d had enough of the nonsense we see when we get online from activists of every kind. That was my promise.

It did with Musk’s takeover of Twitter:

We can see today that the world is in chaos. You can log onto any social media site and see a world that sells blood and conflicts to you, while a large population consumes the information and signals virtue after virtue with little or no substance. As Sagan stated, we have fallen behind but there is a way out. The people will get fed up with the noise and nonsense, and seek a better path. They’ll refuse to slide back any further, turning, instead, to the wisdom of those who came before us in order to pave the road ahead with knowledge and a thirst for something better.

The second renaissance may not happen today or even in the next few years, but I do believe it’s on the horizon. The human race has not been known to be content to sit in the dirt for too long. Soon, society will get rid of those who want to hold us back and allow us to move on to better things.

Musk’s purchasing of Twitter may be the first sign of a second Rennaisance. Opening up the town square for free discussion is a big deal, and without the careful curating of the radical left, society will be shown ideas and concepts that they hadn’t previously been allowed to see or openly talk about.

Don’t get me wrong, it won’t be pretty, at least at first. Although freedom and chaos can be compared, the uproar caused by having so many different voices add to the mix will ultimately settle. Open debate allows for good ideas and good ideas will rise to the top. Society may change as a result.

Science may be able to shine, biology is respected, jokes can again be made, sacred cows are demolished, and many other things.

Future prospects are brighter

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