{"id":1715927,"date":"2022-10-29T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715927"},"modified":"2022-10-29T09:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T13:18:36","slug":"twitter-and-the-war-of-the-oligarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-and-the-war-of-the-oligarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and the War of the Oligarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-and-the-war-of-the-oligarchs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/rqbxxjr2\/production\/396e80e9ec8b1a29a7b8f7e0e4e8d0cefb86746a-2892x1501.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=630\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last week, the media hive mind reacted with horror to Elon Musk\u2019s bid to purchase journalists\u2019 primary base of operations, Twitter. The writer Jeff Jarvis captured the mood with his <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc281ef7-e7b3-4cfd-9834-ad609ced484b_1194x518.png\">remark<\/a> that \u201ctoday on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.\u201d The Tesla boss, in this analogy, plays the part of Hitler, whose proposed takeover threatens to bring the blue-checks\u2019 freewheeling fun to a shocking and brutal end.<\/p>\n<p>While the rhetoric is hyperbolic, there is a real and significant power struggle underway here. At stake is the medium that facilitates an influential alliance between progressive professionals and like-minded oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>An innocent reader might assume Jarvis and other pundits feared that Musk would shut down the site or introduce harsh new restrictions on what could be said there. The reality was the opposite: What made Musk\u2019s proposed takeover so terrifying was his \u201cdivisive rhetoric about free speech,\u201d as <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Kara Swisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/14\/opinion\/musk-twitter-agrawal.html\">explained<\/a>. Swisher didn\u2019t need to spell out what was so divisive about Musk\u2019s demand to scale back online censorship; it is now a <em>bien-pensant<\/em> article of faith that support for free speech is tantamount to fascism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the media hive mind reacted with horror to Elon Musk\u2019s bid to purchase journalists\u2019 primary base of operations, Twitter. 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