'The role of big tech and its ownership of the means of communication and the commons of social media is a brutal reality and an assault on democracy' // Mike Small
WATCHING Elon Musk’s management “style” unfold as he takes a wrecking ball to Twitter and engineers performative mass sackings is sickening. Not just for the bad taste and pettiness but the prospect of such a man being in charge of such an important public resource.
The rise of libertarianism and its ownership by the right and far-right is a hallmark of our time, and Musk’s intervention is its latest – and potentially most dire – manifestation. The platform will be ruined if, as seems likely, the “free speech” ethics is used to trump everything else. Cancel culture, like “wokeism” is the tired shibboleth of our time, as testified by John Cleese in last year’s Channel 4 show John Cleese: Cancel Me and who is now the host of a new show on the GB News channel. Imagine being so cancelled you had two tv shows to moan about it.Despite pursuing horrendous immigration policies or advancing planet-wrecking climate economics, they have managed to frame the public debate as being about civility and politeness.
The problem isn’t his views or the writing for which he is responsible, it’s the fault of others, he explains: “The Herald isn’t the only publication that lives in fear of social media. The journalists who are addicted to Twitter are part of the problem. What columnists like this have had to adjust to is the openness of the new era. They don’t have the status and privilege of protection behind the printed word anymore – and some of them really hate it.
“The debate has – apologies for the jargon – its arse on backwards. The putative threat is from the ‘woke army’, liberals so high on their own sanctimony that they won’t rest until they’ve chased their target from public life.”
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