There’s an obvious pushback about being told what to think. Twitter temporarily afforded the option of, well, ‘just let the people decide.’ That’s what democracy is. That’s why democracy is not real, and never was. Because real democracy means stuff might happen that you don’t like. What they mean when they say democracy is ‘our democracy.’ What they mean by ‘the outcome of the people’ — the ‘outcome of our people.’ What they mean by ‘freedom of speech’ — ‘freedom for our speech.’
Comedian Russell Brand, “Hang On… ‘A Tool for Democracy’ or a Tool of THE ESTABLISHMENT,” discussing “Jack Dorsey has resigned as CEO of Twitter – the platform that was intended as a tool for democracy but became the opposite” and a Matt Taibbi article on Substack.
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