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Social Media Politics with Walter Isaacson 7/05/23

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The Politics of Free Speech Maximalism

Matt Taibbi said that the government forced these companies to be unwilling collaborators I think that's wrong I think they became willing collaborators with the government. Elon Musk has done is make Twitter a more contentious place you don't just lose people on the progressive left you lose those reasonable people like you and me in the middle sometimes. Matta comes along and tries to do a Twitter competitor well that's where we're gonna go nextYes okay well let's go there which is must tell me many times that the goal he had it Twitter was to have a place where all sides of the political spectrum could be there discussing and combating. If you if if Facebook is successful the question is it would have to

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