Mike Masnick ✅Can anyone explain what happened to Marc? He used to not be this way. He actually used to have a pretty good understanding of content moderation and free speech issues. And now... this?
@cundravy@mmasnick hard to draw the exact moment but it started around the time of Sanders and Warren and taxing wealth coupled with when journalists weren’t blindly reproducing his thoughts as parables.
@mmasnick it wasn’t just him. it was the entire a16z crowd + funded company CEOs + ape-rs of the a16z “current thing”
personally know otherwise sane folks suddenly reading Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi and somehow considering those opinions as “fact”
@mmasnick All under the aegis of “independent thinking” and “dyor” and “centrism”
obviously this was all supported by the PayPal mafia too. And so in a way Musk is just enabled and then reinforced by people who are both influencers and cronies