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Dave Rubin on Zuckerberg’s New Threads Platform: You Can’t Say You’ll Be ‘Nice and Friendly’ Without Censoring People

‘He’s basically saying to people, ‘Hey, you don’t like Twitter because Twitter has too much free speech’’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

RUBIN: " I mean, right now, whether he stole some coding via former employees from Elon or whatever, Mark Zuckerberg is basically saying to the 50-70 million people that are now on Threads, which is the fastest app to ever hit 50 million users, so whether we like it or not, people are paying attention to this thing, but he’s basically saying to them, 'Hey, we wanted to be friendly and nice,' which is code for censored, obviously. You can’t — you can’t just say something is going to be nice and pleasant and decent and then not censor people, because you know what, people have a huge range of emotions and especially when it become comes to politics or the culture wars that we’re in, or even sports or movies, people fight about everything. So, he’s going to have a major headache on his hands because he’s going to have to start censoring, we know he has already. But not only that. The more that people get on there with the expectation of being censored, that’s the weird thing that is going on here, Brian. He's basically saying to people, 'Hey, you don’t like Twitter because Twitter has too much free speech. Come over to my Twitter clone where will take care of it for you.’ It's infantilizing his own audience and his user base, but we will see. It seems like the entire machine is backing him right now, lot of celebs getting on there. And you know everybody wants to stick it to Musk because, as you pointed out, there has been nobody at a at a higher level that has defended free speech and open inquiry and by opening up the Twitter files and everything else than Elon Musk, so he is not liked by the powers that be."
 

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