I think the thrust of your argument is really the only meaningful story here, but I don’t think it’s an especially good example of it. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that influential people and orgs have more direct lines into channels of influence.
Plus it’s too easy to divide this battle along red/blue lines rather than ruler/non-ruler lines.
Re:The Twitter Files
by IfOnlyYouKnew on Saturday December 03, 2022 @11:20AM
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LOL, touch grass! You’re going off the shallow end.
This story kept me up last night. I think it's the biggest news story I've seen in my lifetime, and everyone seems to be missing the point. Forget Snowden, Lewinsky, or traunched CDOs.
The failure mode for capitalism is not national farming quotas starving 10 million people to death or a national ethnosocialist genocide. We have to worry about the unregulated concentration of power/capital; monopoly busting is one critical aspect of this. Another related aspect is capital's effect on the regulators, on politics.
What we see here is both parties, and the white house proper, with a direct and open line to executives of some of the biggest multinational tech companies in existence. This is not consulting jobs following an exit from politics, or hundred thousand dollar speaking deals at business conventions. Sitting members of congress are emailing corporate execs from their cell phones. They're discussing congressional polling data in a near real-time way. Theyre asking twitter (and presumably meta and others) to selectively moderate partisan political posts. DURING ELECTION SEASON.
This is insanity. Forget Russian interference, this is real, documented, American interference. The regulators and regulated are publicly in bed together.
We must grab an axe and sever these ties immediately. This is the formation of a true ruling class. Get the money out of politics NOW.