Turns out, The Guardian has left Twitter (now X). And so has Don Lemon and Joy Ried.
Soon, we’ll see all the lefty media outlets leave Twitter en masse as well. If it looks like a coordinated move, it’s because it is. The left has had a total monopoly on speech since forever. With the entire media on its side, along with the Academia and Hollywood, not to forget the Big Tech censorship apparatus, The Left never really had to compete in a fair marketplace of ideas. It dominated with a totalitarian grip on dissenting voices. Always.
But now that the censorship apparatus has been cracked with Twitter becoming X, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the left can’t really fight in an open marketplace of ideas. It’s too scared to even try.
All this while, the Left accused the Right for lying and peddling misinformation. People with insightful and contrarian things to say were shadowbanned and silenced with the pretext of “violating community standards” and/or “promoting mis, or disinformation” on the internet, even when they were factually right. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Youtube, erstwhile Twitter, and even Linkedin actively engaged in this brazen silencing of dissent. But it didn’t take more than a year of real fact checking (community notes) to know what’s what.
The left has been exposed for being totally bankrupt. Atleast intellectually. And leaving Twitter is their last ditch effort to take the fight in their home turf, where they can have the support of censorship and silencing of opposing ideas.
But it’s not going to work. They should know better. Truth has a way of revealing itself. By refusing to participate in an open conversation, they’ll lose ground, day by day. Inch by inch.
Instead of trying to save their receding ground by leaving the society even more divided, the Left should introspect and find a better way to compete in the open marketplace of ideas. It’ll be hard, but it’ll be worth it. Who knows, maybe it gets a grip and becomes better than ever?
One can only wish the thinkers on the Left a lot of introspection. Otherwise, it might happen that they soon run out of platforms to leave.
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