he had no choice. elon musk virtually alone in the entire technology industry appears to understand what exactly is happening here. here is musk in 2018 appearing on 60 minutes acknowledging that in a world of corporate media, twitter can act as an equalizer. watch. you tweet a lot. i use my tweets to express myself. some people use their hair. i use twitter. you use you are tweeting to kind of get back at critics. rarely. you kind of have little wars with the press. twitter is a war zone. you re in the arena. let s go. okay. who does that sound like? i don t know. who does it sound like? sounds like the guy who lives at the white house. that guy, sure. he s very good at twitter. tucker: twitter is a war zone. that tape is from three and a half years ago. twitter is no longer a war zone. there s only one army on the field.
the price of meat and gas. the value of the dollar has dropped off a cliff even as the value of the russian ruble is rising. so part of that for a moment and chuckled literally to herself. and then to new york city this morning, 16 people were shot by a lunatic wearing a hoodie and yet somehow none of the many surveillance cameras in the subway station happened to be working at the time so the guy got away. we do know he was not a white supremacist. we are betting the media are not going to dwell on this. there s nothing to gain from covering this particular atrocity. just another mass shooting in a big city. it s all so sad. mayhem and economic decline or not for once we are opening the show with tonight. no, we have generally good news. here it is. it looks possible that elon musk will seize control of twitter and end its censorship on that platform. why should you care about that? it is a tech story. who cares about social media? if that were to happen we could
once again, this ran in the washington post, a paper that apparently unbeknownst to the editors who work there is owned by billionaire oligarch jeff bezos, china s biggest retailer, and used as his personal platform to lobby the federal government and settle scores. so jeff bezos can own the ony newsgathering operation and your nation s capital and use it for business and ideological ends but the idea of letting average people say what they want on twitter is a threat to democracy. [laughs] if you think that s hilarious, you should read the piece in the guardian. it was written by former labor secretary robert reisch, a stalinist. elon musk s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense. musk has long advocated for a libertarian vision uncontrolled internet. that s also the dream of every dictator, strongman and demagogue. [laughs] right.
and demagogs want is the people over whom they rule to say whatever they want and to challenge their power. that s kind of the way dictatorships work, isn t that right? robert raiche? the funny thing is robert rice is a lifelong leftist now pushing 80 . you can imagine the robert rice of say nineteen seventy when he was a little college advocate would be a little bit surprised to see the robert rice of nearly 80 calling for a total crackdown on the opinions of ordinary people. but you know, people get power when they change so that doesn t make any sense as an argument. you can see why they stick to calling elon musk a racist on cable news you stick to the same old script and that s what they re doing at cnn. of course. watch. i think in some ways it s a good thing that elon is out there tweeting, livening up twitter, making it more entertaining. as carr said, he s a funny guy ,but there are serious questions behind that . what happens next ? does push for a full acquisition. we don t
twitter. he would not be allowed to control the company. second, as a board member, elon musk would have a fiduciary duty to shareholders and in real terms that means he could not reveal twitter s algorithms. he couldn t tell the public what they are. those algorithms are used to censor and suppress effective critics of the biden administration very often without their knowledge. it s done in secret. you can t fight back . you don t even know what s happening. so he could not challenge that if he took a board seat. but this weekend musk abruptly pulled out of the deal and that means he s free to buy more shares of twitter, in fact, to control it on sunday night, twitter s pro censorship ceo agrowill told twitter employees to brace for musk s attempt at a hostile takeover. he also strongly implied that twitter will not submit unless forced quote there will be distractions ahead, but our goals and priorities remain unchanged. so you have to ask yourself how exactly with twitter, which is