That's just funny - the Simpsons riffed on that for the longest time and nobody batted an eye.
It's satire meant to make people chuckle about it... and it's old satire, because everyone knows that the Indian immigrant now is far more likely to be your cardiologist or running the entire IT department than working at 7/11.
... and everyone knows the babylon Bee is not alt right, lol.
OH yeah, there's stuff like that on there now, which i agree should be allowed on platforms. I believe in free speech. This stuff is not persuasive - it's not detrimental to anybody that it exists.
My point is that major figures on the far right are still banned. It's hypocritical of Musk to some degree, especially in the case of Taylor, but this is also the sort of thing that you should be kind of satisfied with, isn't it? Yes, he allows no name accounts to post stuff like that, but the people who actually have a following are off.
Not wrong at all - it's also the case that the guy who founded Netflix had dozens of sticks in the fire - lots of failed enterprises he was trying out elsewhere, and this one just hit. He didn't even come up with the model, really, for Netflix.... he's just a privileged venture capitalist.
But what does that mean for us? Obviously, I wish it was me with the generational wealth, and not them. Obviously, I would prefer for 10,000 people to be lifted out of generational poverty in the Congo than to create more millionaires... But I treat the super wealthy capitalists tossing around massive wealth like this as something I do not have the right to do much about other than taxing them at a higher rate.
When they deliver good products by creating companies that utilize a lot of talent, I clap.
I think it is the case that technology and the mass production of goods will do more to alleviate poverty than anything else...
I mean, you go to poor countries now and even the poor people have access to a wealth of information and such through their non-flag smartphones you've never heard of. That's just wonderful. It has also assisted us by letting us see what is going on in Gaza first hand. So, all these billionaires & multimillionaire investors have actually contributed to society through the decades by bringing us to a point where even fairly poor people in India or Iran can not just enjoy having internet access and a smartphone, but can also use it to report on corruption and undermine corrupt & terrible governments.
It's interesting to think that if Wu had more love in the West that the Chinese authorities would have been more slow to crackdown on her...
I think we all remember back in 2017 or so when the Hong Kong protests were at the forefront of everyone's mind and, still, the crackdown continued, and the resistance was crushed.
And what has China's response to the popularity of the Ukraine war been? To question its generally positive relations with Russia? No, not at all. China shores up its own front against Taiwan and its trade with Russia is growing exponentially. BRICS gets stronger.
China will not bow to popular Western opinion no matter what. Blaming Musk for this is pretty asinine.