The House Financial Services Committee’s upcoming hearings on cryptocurrency regulation coincide with new groups pushing vapid digital campaigns.
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Elon Musk Shows How Oligarchy Poisons the Speech Commons
Free speech is not when one rich guy gets to shout 1,000 times louder than anyone else.
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Debacle Shows the Problem With Billionaires
One person should not control nation-sized pots of resources.
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Tech Company Workers Should Unionize Immediately
What happened to Twitter could happen to any Silicon Valley company.
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Fellow Journalists (and Our Academic Friends), It’s Time to Leave Twitter
Today on TAP: Well, provided some of the sacked Twitterati and alternative funders establish a non-Elonized forum.
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Elon Musk, American Oligarch
Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.
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Jack, You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie
Critics say the ex-head of Twitter hasn’t hired enough nonprofit professionals, so his charity has been driven by arbitrary personal whims. Maybe there is a bigger problem here.
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What’s Up With Twitter’s Content Moderation Policies?
The silencing of one consumer advocate reflects real confusion with how speech is handled on one of our leading platforms of communications infrastructure.
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Say It Ain’t So, Joe: Tweets?!?
Today on TAP: The president should sign off Twitter for good
