1st Amendment on Sale for $8: Elon Musk Twitter Blue vs Advertisers

1st Amendment on Sale for $8: Elon Musk Twitter Blue vs Advertisers

Elon Musk has recently purchased Twitter and there has been a lot of discussion as to whether or not he should charge $8/month for Twitter blue.

Some call him greedy while others point out the fact that this doesn’t solve the ‘bot’ issue. An issue that Elon Musk feels is impeding on our democracy.

But the issue Twitter Blue does Solve is FREEDOM OF SPEECH because if Twitter gets their money from its’ users then their loyalty begins and ends with the user. Currently, we see a lot of people being banned and censored for saying things online that are completely legal to say in the U.S. (short of inciting violence). This is, in large part, because the advertisers who pay these social media companies threaten to pull out if they don’t like the rhetoric of a particular person or community.

FUN FACT: $4.6 billion of Twitter’s $5 billion revenue came from advertisers last year.

So it looks likes WE either pay to speak freely online or that right will be taken away from us….

Thoughts?