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Beware the Control Freaks on the Left, Mr. Musk!

Michael Reagan on

Really?

From Left Coast to Left Coast, Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the liberal media mob are whining that under Musk an un-moderated and non-partisan New Twitter will be able to affect election results and spread disinformation.

But come on, man.

Is there anyone who hasn’t noticed that for the last decade the left has been using Twitter, Facebook, Google and the social media to influence elections, censor their political enemies and push their poisonous political and cultural ideas on the rest of us?

With their hysterical reactions to Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the left has shown the whole country what rotten hypocrites they really are.

They don’t believe in free speech – not for you, anyway. They never did. They believed only in free speech for themselves.

Old Twitter being purchased by a non-leftist who actually believes in free speech for everyone is not a threat to democracy, it’s a threat to the authoritarian left.

The left is all about being in control – government control of everything from education to health care and information – and limiting individual choice wherever possible.

 

In reaction to Musk’s promise to turn Old Twitter into a non-partisan, transparent, open market of information and free expression, the control freaks running the Biden administration have just decided to set themselves up as arbiters of disinformation.

This week they announced the formation of a “Disinformation Governance Board, ” which sounds like something George Orwell wished he had thought of for his great book “1984.”

The board’s Orwellian and dangerously open-ended job is “to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security and will reportedly focus 'specifically' on irregular migration and Russia.”

While we wait to see if publicizing the information contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop meets the board’s definition of disinformation, it’s not hard to predict that Musk and New Twitter are going to be harassed or punished by at least a few federal regulatory agencies.

The control freaks of the left will try to do anything they can to hurt Musk for being a free speech absolutist because they only agree with their own speech. So beware, Elon.

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Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to reagan@caglecartoons.com and follow @reaganworld on Twitter. Copyright 2022 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.


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