Censorship is just that, Censorship

Just like pregnancy, you can’t have just a little censorship. Once you wipe clean or alter something, the censorship game has begun. So now we have a great debate caused by the hostile takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk. His stated purpose is to open up the world’s public forum to accept “free” speech. The current Twitter inhibits versus promotes democracy in his view, yet he doesn’t dispel the notion that under his tutelage, there too will be some form of censorship.

In his statements he talks openly of removing “scams” and “spam” without defining them. As is the case with pornography, I guess we’ll know it when we see it. Any censorship is just that, censorship. Opening up the algorithms and manual actions that elevate, suppress, or remove content would be a good move but the ultimate is to eliminate them altogether. I imagine the snowflakes whose jobs rely on culling the millions of tweets find this idea abhorrent. Everyone gets religion when their well-being is threatened. Hence the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the hordes of children that make up the employee base of Twitter. I suppose they could get jobs at Disney should they get laid off.

Is there an ideal public forum for the open discussion of anything and everything? Probably not but then, there are few, if any, ideal things in this world. Somebody’s ox always gets gored. So why attempt to get the “perfect” at the expense of the great? Let the f bombs fly and the conspiracy tales grow to include actual “scientific” discovery of Sasquatch or the farse of having sent a man to the moon. Who cares? Don’t read it if it bothers you. Read it and believe it or not is up to you and not some person or algorithm. We have a God given ability and inherent right to choose for ourselves. I for one prefer to use that ability and right and not delegate it to some amorphous entity.