Re:Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers...
by krapp on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:48PM
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Removing the checkmark from the UAW's Twitter account is in no way regulating the institution itself. Musk even relented and put the checkmark back.
Don't get me wrong - the unchecked power of billionaires in a society converging towards military industrial oligarchy and centralized control of consensus reality through the media, full of easily controlled and manipulated voters pathologically afraid of effective government, is definitely a problem worth being afraid of. But this isn't an example of it. This is just another "rich babyman throws his toys out of the pram" moment for Musk.
Don't get me wrong - the unchecked power of billionaires in a society converging towards military industrial oligarchy and centralized control of consensus reality through the media, full of easily controlled and manipulated voters pathologically afraid of effective government, is definitely a problem worth being afraid of. But this isn't an example of it. This is just another "rich babyman throws his toys out of the pram" moment for Musk.