Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter has had a vast number of Democrats up in arms, fearing that the platform’s new emphasis on “free speech” is somehow a threat to them.
It’s extraordinary, really, that the left is openly admitting that they don’t want the world’s most powerful communications tool to be unbiased, and reveals a great deal about the progressive agenda as a whole.
This reality has been reiterated once again this week, after Elon Musk triggered the liberals of social media with a satirical cable news chyron.
Musk posted a picture of CNN’s Don Lemon on Monday, alongside a satirical chyron that read “Elon Musk could threaten free speech on Twitter by allowing people to speak freely.”
Some Twitter users were confused about whether the meme was from an actual CNN broadcast. The image is originally from Geniuses Times, a satirical website that describes itself as “the most reliable source of fake news in the planet.”
Nevertheless, Musk’s post prompted a wide range of responses, from conservative praise to liberal meltdowns.
Some of the reactions were simply astounding.
Ronald Brownstein, a senior editor at The Atlantic, claimed that Musk was simply repackaging hate speech as free speech to empower extremism on the far right.
“Simple equation: Musk repackages hate speech racism anti-semitism homophobia and far-right intimidation as ‘free speech’ & any effort to hold him accountable for injecting it into US society as the ‘woke mob.’ On both ends, same goal: amplifying & empowering far-right extremists,” he tweeted.
Seeing the liberal left so ostensibly afraid of the First Amendment does not bode well for their chances in 2024, as our national narrative will surely find its way to constitutional matters in the coming months.
