A perfect example of why our Davos masters are so determined to shut down "X"

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(David Garrow was a classmate of mine at Eastern and GHS ‘71 — I think I liked him more than he liked me, but what the hell.)

(FWIW) : Pre-Musk, Twitter’s owners decided who could speak and what they could say, and approved posters could publish the official line without fear of contradiction. Musk changed that by allowing “community notes” that add context to a Tweet, and although those notes can be added to Tweets from any part of the political spectrum, it’s the fear of their own lies being exposed that’s driving the One Worlders over the edge:

Global Overlords in Davos All Atwitter About Elon Musk and X

The billionaires and global elites are once again gathering in Davos, Switzerland, for their annual debauched World Economic Forum meetings and parties, and they’re worried about AI, the economy, and the climate – they’re so worried about that, they arrived in hundreds of private jets and motorcades – and most of all, Donald Trump.

See: What Keeps Global Elitists Up at Night? A Possible Second Trump Presidency

But they’re also kept awake at night by something else – the dastardly owner of X, Elon Musk, and the fact that he has tried to shake the social media platform from the yoke of censorship. Oh, the horror!

Breaking: WEF24 Davos is underway, and the speakers are already having a therapy session over @X  and @elonmusk. Naomi Oreskes from Harverd Univeristy and Luciana Vaccaro from SwissUniversities lament on their experience on the "toxic" X platform and it's "problematic" owner, hoping for better days in a more regulated social media space.

Here's Oreskes: 

For a long time, I was on Twitter, And now it's become such a toxic place that I've concluded it's not a worthwhile place to spend time. And as you said, it is exhausting. 

So you do have to pick and choose, and you have to think about where the place is, where you can get your message across. But I am trying to figure out, I mean, I have given up on X. What a scary name that even is, right? 

And I don't know what the alternative is right now. 

So the question of the social media, I must say that I have happened on Twitter too... it's a toxic environment. And we talk about, I have no solution on that. 

But I think one day it will come the moment of the code of conduct in this place... 

But I think there will be a societal reflection on how information is brought... 

Now, there is also the policy of the owner that is problematic.

Ah, a code of conduct -- a euphemism for a Disinformation Board that would ban you from saying anything that deviates from WEF orthodoxy.  

But wait, there’s more! They’re planning another assault on their subjects,and they’ve even already got a fall guy.

[O]rganizers have scheduled a forum Wednesday to discuss the possibility of another contagion -- one that "could result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic," and guess what they called the potential disease? There are hundreds of thousands of words they could have chosen from, but they settled on the letter "X."

Must be a coincidence.