When billionaires take control of vital communication platforms, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.
And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Don't be fooled.
And when those billionaires justify their business motives by citing “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability.
Don't be fooled.
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No one paid attention and we just let them?
Weak, America is... thanks to billionaires and weak congressmen selling their greenback bootlicker souls.
Easy choice
Media sites like Facebook, X - all the ones that promote false political views
Free speech comes a with responsibility to be honest and base what you say on truth.
He controls both houses, the White House and SCOTUS.
What we require are solutions not continued articulation of the already well understood problem
Immanuel Kant (1793)
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American youth would rather have a chinese controlled platform than a Muskrat controlled platform
Imagine, an influence on the entire media,,, what power..!
For over 75 years, we been fed Israeli lies
or
not fed Israeli truths..!
@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social
"Someone else had that responsibility, not me".
30 YEARS AGO!! (before social media) George Carlin, stand-up comedian, social critic, actor and author explained how oligarchs control everyone and everything, everywhere
Now, 30 years on, with social media disinformation rife, things are much worse 😕
https://youtu.be/5aiFp-XqV_M?si=bl5shLvwXQAe6Es_
Elon Musk bought a popular social media platform to use as a megaphone 📣 to promote and protect his 'freedom of reach'
villainous billionaires probably shouldn't be allowed to own our social media town squares 🤔
Luigi Mangione did more for consumers than the politicians we elect to protect us.
You can bribe your way to passing grades...
Thomas Jefferson,
I’m shutting those accounts down next Monday.
I deleted my Twitter accounts ages ago.
We are choking to death on the money billionaires are bribing gov't with
#toopoortothink
https://youtu.be/7X7QdWYoVtM?si=k7SVHJF0nO22ceFi
American oligarchs control the media WE
become censored.
Reality becomes THEIR reality. Stupid Americans. They didn’t understand why Ukraine did not want to live behind the wall. Putin’s wall.
Winston Churchill:
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Now it's our turn. Are we up to it?
Is that too far of a stretch?
Well said good sir !!
*Bows Deeply*
. It was a good investment for the two. Elon bought a country for<$30million. We need to make it hard to keep.
Today openly displayed & Money Rules systemically.
I would’ve thought one of our universities would’ve come up with an app to compete with TikTok by now.
Look and see how many DEMS and REPS have stock in META.
Look and see Zuck spent $7+ Million lobbying.
Look and see they rewarded Zuck ridding him of a business threat...under the guise of safety?
Also, removes our ability to organize as we all DITCH oligarch owned media!!
@washingtonpost.com
@postopinions.bsky.social
Was inactive on twitter since space Karen arrived, logged in recently to kill my account for good.
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Let's hope.
But the sad truth is, there are no good big corps. Specially public traded ones, even if head stands, shareholders will push back.
for democracy to survive and thrive, what's the route map beyond what neo-liberal deregulation gave us ... media concentration?