Elon Musk Bought Twitter and Now the Whole World Is Totally Different

A seismic shift has rippled throughout the world. The purchase of Twitter will impact nearly every industry and the future of society… even entertainment.

Over the last decade, a really horrible thing had been happening. The once wild west that was the internet, with all of its promise as a place for free information and communicative abilities, was smothered by the elitist global classes that saw that as a threat. Although the world wide web was still a net positive by far, like much of the rest of our recent past, we watched as artificial scarcity was introduced into an arena that didn’t need it. In the case of the internet, it was a scarcity of differing opinions. Whether it was the censorship of “wrong think” in the political sphere or the erasure of opinions on a big movie that flopped, countless websites and apps became corrupted with the idea that language is violence and anything that offended the global corporate structure should be struck. Even in the last few days, PayPal has reintroduced a system of taking people’s real world money should they say something that the company deems “wrong”.

The problem with censorship is that the censors are seldom smarter than society at large. Sure, maybe ninety percent of everything that gets said is stupid… but then there’s that ten percent that might be worth all the nonsense. If free speech gives us a huge headache on a whole bunch of levels, it at least also gives us an epiphany or two. And those epiphanies at a societal level are what help us reinvigorate the things that aren’t working.

Through the capture of organizations like Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Meta, Twitter and more, an oligarchy had formed which was stifling any ability to course correct. If you didn’t like The Last Jedi and spent too much time explaining why, you were on track to watch as review websites were reconfigured to make sure your opinion couldn’t be heard. If you thought a political decision was poor, shadowbanning was on the way if the corporations didn’t agree. It might not have happened to every individual with a small scope of impact, but for individuals and companies that gained any semblance of a following, the corporations were quick to take action. Blocking rising stars of critical or cynical opinion against the global machine was important to control the narrative. And the narrative existed to attempt a continued engineering of public opinion in favor of the elites — often couched in faux empathy, those who believed in it usually didn’t realize the ultimate goal or outcomes.

But now Elon Musk owns Twitter and it would seem that the days of being afraid of being stripped of influence online are gone. For as long as Twitter manages to stay running and available, there would seem to be at least one place where we can tell the truth without fear. You can review a movie and a corporation can’t get you three quick strikes to knock years of work offline. You can criticize a major entertainment organization and nobody is going to throttle you down via algorithms that look to eradicate independent journalists. Of course this has impacts throughout all of society, not just entertainment, but you can begin to see the scope of all of this.

Report … day one of @elonmusk owning Twitter. I’ll be doing this every day to see if anything changes.

As of now, I’m still Shadowbanned, ghostbanned, searchbanned, and Twitter removed 1200 followers today – as usual.

Nothing has changed – I’ll report again tomorrow.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 27, 2022

For our part on That Park Place, we now believe that we can post information on Twitter and drive viewers to the website unencumbered. We’re free to compete with The Washington Post, The New York Times, Variety, and more. Perhaps soon we’ll be able to post our own videos on Twitter in a method similar to YouTube. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

Perhaps you’re not a part of the Twitterverse and you don’t think this will be so impactful. To that I only say that we had been existing in a world where there was no good place on the internet to share diverse ideas. I mean that. And if you had ever run a website that criticizes powerful companies and individuals, you’d know how hard it has been to do that successfully. No matter what website I’ve worked for, we’ve had to be neurotic trying to guess what would “de-rank” us on Google. Maybe that next honest and accurate Gina Carano article would be the thing that sinks the whole project, strikes us from Google and crashes the financials for the business. It wasn’t just us — it was millions of people all struggling with the same behemoth holding back free speech and honest reporting.

I've now gained 7,000 followers since last night when I tweeted that. Things are definitely changing – and it's glorious.

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 28, 2022

So get ready. Twitter is free again… and we plan to tell the truth there.

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