Hot Take: Jewish Midget Says Dictators Want Free Speech on the Internet

Robert Reich is shorter than 5 feet

The Jewish midget Robert Reich, a technocrat who has been involved in many US presidential administrations, has come out this week with a very spicy take on Elon Musk potentially planning to allow free speech on the internet.

It’s a fascist agenda. Only evil people want free speech.

This is obviously very different than what Jews from Reich’s same age cohort were saying at Berkeley in the 1960s.

He writes for The Guardian:

The Russian people know little about Putin’s war on Ukraine because Putin has blocked their access to the truth, substituting propaganda and lies.

Years ago, pundits assumed the internet would open a new era of democracy, giving everyone access to the truth. But dictators like Putin and demagogues like Trump have demonstrated how naive that assumption was.

At least the US responded to Trump’s lies. Trump had 88 million Twitter followers before Twitter took him off its platform – just two days after the attack on the Capitol, which he provoked, in part, with his tweets. (Trump’s social media accounts were also suspended on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch and TikTok.)

Putin allegedly censoring information is bad, but Trump being censored is good. So we’re not actually dealing with any kind of rules based system, or principles. Democracy is actually just based on using pragmatism to defeat ideological enemies of the unclear ideology of “democracy,” which does not have any clear principles.

Okay.

These moves were necessary to protect American democracy. But Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, with 80 million Twitter followers – wasn’t pleased. Musk tweeted that US tech companies shouldn’t be acting “as the de facto arbiter of free speech”.

Musk continues to tell his 80 million followers all sorts of things. I disagree with many of his positions, but ever since I posted a tweet two years ago criticizing him for how he treated his Tesla workers he has blocked me – so I can’t view or post criticisms of his tweets to his followers.

Seems like an odd move for someone who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”. Musk advocates free speech but in reality it’s just about power.

Blocking someone on Twitter is literally like the entire tech sector conspiring with the government to censor all outlets of public expression.

Got it.

Power compelled Musk to buy $2.64bn of Twitter stock, making him the largest individual shareholder. Last week, Twitter announced that Musk would be joining Twitter’s board of directors, prompting Musk to promise “significant improvements” in the platform.

Sunday evening, though, it was announced that Musk would not be joining Twitter’s board. No reason was given but it’s probably part of a bargaining kabuki dance.

Musk wouldn’t have plopped down $2.64bn for nothing. If he is not on Twitter’s board, he’s not bound by a “standstill” agreement in which he pledged to buy no more than 14.9% of Twitter’s stock. Musk now faces no limit on how much of Twitter’s stock he can buy. He’ll buy as much as he needs to gain total control.

What “improvements” does Musk have in mind for Twitter? Will he use his clout over Twitter to prevent users with tens of millions of followers from blocking people who criticize them? I doubt it.

Will Musk use his clout to let Trump back on? I fear he will.

Musk has long advocated a libertarian vision of an “uncontrolled” internet. That vision is dangerous rubbish. There’s no such animal, and there never will be.

Someone has to decide on the algorithms in every platform – how they’re designed, how they evolve, what they reveal and what they hide. Musk has enough power and money to quietly give himself this sort of control over Twitter.

Musk talks about freedom of speech but his real power is freedom of reach – reaching 80 million Twitter followers without accountability to anyone (including critics like me) – and enough money to buy himself a seat on Twitter’s board.

The Jew cries out as he writes an op-ed in one of the most read publications in the world, criticizing Elon Musk.

Free speech and “free reach” on the internet is about equality of opportunity, which leads to meritocracy in the marketplace of ideas. Everyone used to just take this for granted, as it was so obvious and self-explanatory.

No Jew will ever address the core concept of the pro-speech argument; instead he’ll just spout opaque gibberish.

Musk has never believed that power comes with responsibility. He’s been unperturbed when his tweets cause real suffering. During his long and storied history with Twitter he has threatened journalists and tweeted reckless things.

That “real suffering” hyperlink leads to some dumb Jew bitch journalist getting some mean tweets and emails after attacking Musk on Twitter for not respecting The Science.

Robert Reich is a supporter of the Western-backed war in the Ukraine, which is killing thousands of people and destroying their homes in the name of a convoluted NATO agenda. But the “real suffering” is mean words on the internet.

In March 2020 he tweeted that children were “essentially immune” to Covid. He has pushed cryptocurrencies that he’s invested in. When a college student started a Twitter account to track Musk’s private plane, Musk tried and failed to buy him off, before blocking him.

He has also been openly contemptuous of the SEC, tweeting at one point that the “E” stands for “Elon’s”. (You can guess what the “S” and “C” stand for.) By the way, how does the SEC go after Musk’s ability to tweet now that he owns Twitter?

Only a Jew could come up with the idea that mocking the SEC is a form of “real suffering” hate speech.

Billionaires like Musk have shown time and again they consider themselves above the law. And to a large extent, they are.

Musk has enough wealth that legal penalties are no more than slaps on his wrist, and enough power to control one of the most important ways the public now receives news. Think about it: after years of posting tweets that skirt the law, Musk was given a seat on Twitter’s board (and is probably now negotiating for even more clout).

Musk says he wants to “free” the internet. But what he really aims to do is make it even less accountable than it is now, when it’s often impossible to discover who is making the decisions about how algorithms are designed, who is filling social media with lies, who’s poisoning our minds with pseudo-science and propaganda, and who’s deciding which versions of events go viral and which stay under wraps.

In Musk’s vision of Twitter and the internet, he’d be the wizard behind the curtain – projecting on the world’s screen a fake image of a brave new world empowering everyone.

In reality, that world would be dominated by the richest and most powerful people in the world, who wouldn’t be accountable to anyone for facts, truth, science or the common good.

That’s Musk’s dream. And Trump’s. And Putin’s. And the dream of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth. For the rest of us, it would be a brave new nightmare.

Yeah, that’s all just confusing. Because it is nonsensical.

The most powerful people in the world are the ones doing the censoring. Claiming that allowing normal people to speak freely in public is empowering the most powerful people in the world is such a bizarre statement that it is unqualifiable.

The attacks on Musk are just beginning. I don’t even think there is any chance he’s going to bring back free speech on Twitter, but they are going to attack him anyway – just to make the point that no one can ever stand up to them.

He somehow forgets to mention that almost 40% of all of America’s billionaires are Jewish. Wonder why.