CHECK OUT WeThePeople.store and WeThePeople.wine for gifts and awesome snarky swag!
(Video Credit: CNN)
CNN’s David Zurawik practically begged for government control of Twitter on Sunday morning due to the fact that the social media platform is in the midst of a handoff to the free speech absolutist Elon Musk.
In a discussion over Musk’s newfound ownership of one of the largest platforms on earth, Zurawik told the panel on Sunday’s episode of “Reliable Sources” that the Tesla creator’s stake in Twitter is “dangerous.”
“I think there’s a bigger problem that when we focus on the personalities of people like Elon Musk,” Zurawik complained. “There’s a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country.”
And the complication seemed to be that there’s a lack of bureaucratic policy that would limit otherwise protected First Amendment speech online.
“In 1927, we had The Radio Act, 1934 The Communications Act. Congress stepped in. We made rules. FCC wasn’t great but it’s still regulating the broadcast industry. You can’t use vulgar language, you can’t do all of these things with speech,” Zurawik noted.
Although he was evidently not concerned with billionaire Jeff Bezos plunking down the cash to own The Washinton Post, Zurawik took issue with Musk and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“We gave over what amounts to our airwaves, or our internet waves, to Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and we are in so much trouble because those guys believe in making money,” he said.
“We’ve already seen that with the 2016 election, and Zuckerberg, when he was taking rubles for ads from Russia,” Zurawik recalled. “Musk is the same.”
‘Chicken Little’ Max Boot terrified of Elon Musk ‘free speech’ takeover, finds ZERO sympathy on Twitter https://t.co/Ryp44JJlGF pic.twitter.com/r4T6ZwGzjA
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) April 15, 2022
Then he made another plea for more government intervention to stop the likes of Musk from allowing humanity to have free thought online.
“No, I’m serious,” Zurawik insisted. “We don’t have people in Congress who can make regulations, that can make it work. I think we can look to the western countries in Europe for how they are trying to limit it but you need — you need controls on this. You need regulation.”
Controlling the media is so important to Zurawik that he claimed that it would be a virtual armageddon without strict rules for online speech.
“You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down,” he exclaimed.
His panicked tirade has some questioning if he could pull it together and act like an adult about Musk’s Twitter acquisition.
Is it at all possible, for all of us to put on our big people pants and see what Musk does before we have a nuclear melt down?
— gail briones (@GailB4611579CA) May 2, 2022
But others were smitten with his every word, eager for government oversight to implement a Ministry of Truth. Oh, wait, that already happened.
If we had a functional government that would pass laws to give oversight to these social media organizations instead of letting the free market decide what they do with the algorithm and data sales that wouldn’t be a problem.
— RanHarOfTheHillPeople (@Randall_Hardee) May 1, 2022
But others were not so keen on handing over the reins of free speech online.
I agree that Twitter and other large social media companies should be regulated, in the sense that they should be nationalized and forced to engage in less content moderation than they do currently
— Kirara Decline 🧺 (@CodecMendoza) May 2, 2022
No one is “controlling” the discourse. That’s the whole point of free speech.
— DontLieNews (@WhyLieNews) May 1, 2022
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- Watch: Suspect hits unsuspecting NYC man in back of the head with a baseball bat – in broad daylight - December 4, 2022
- Uber-hawk John Bolton says Trump’s ‘act is old and tired now,’ calls for ‘next generation’ of Republicans - November 27, 2022
- ‘Big yikes!’ SNL cold open mocking Biden and Dems over midterms painfully unfunny - November 6, 2022
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
BPR INSIDER COMMENTS
Scroll down for non-member comments or join our insider conversations by becoming a member. We'd love to have you!
20 thoughts on “CNN analyst’s meltdown goes viral: If Congress doesn’t control Musk and Zuck ‘we are headed to hell’”
Comments are closed.
Well, bully for you, but please take your scam elsewhere. Reported as spam.
when he was taking rubles for ads from Russia
I am less concerned with cuckerberg accepting ads from Russia than I am with him spending a quarter billion dollars for control of voting and vote counting
This guy Zurawik is a very educated Nut job . He is the type of person that would do anything to further the left wing cause . Lie – Cheat – Steal and rig elections. He stated we need to adopt the Europe style of control on free speech. Then get out . MOVE
Why is the unhinged, angry, small minded, intolerant left SO afraid of free speech?
Perhaps they just want everyone to post in Mary Poppins cadence?
The CNN jerk is absolutely correct. The living hell will be foisted upon the Democrat elite. I do feel sorry for the everyday common Democrat. They like a more liberal style of control, but what the got is turning them into conservative left leaning voters.
It’s been so much fun watching the liberal nervous breakdowns, at what they think will cause them to lose one of their cheating censors, who IMO, helped throw the last election. IMO, Dorsey should be in jail for what he did, and the same with Zuck. They couldn’t stand for there to be an even chance for both parties, but had to take part in making the playing field so uneven, that most think the election was thrown, and ‘sillegal. A stolen election. Zuck’s money and stuffed ballot boxes, IMO, should get him a trial, before a judge that is known to be fair.
To all conservatives: don’t stress over this attack on the Constitution. It’s clear that dems are intent on destroying America, and they will continue to attack our freedom and our rights until they finally light the fuse to the powder keg that’s going to kick off the next civil war.
That’s when it becomes open season on these piece of human excrement and when the smoke clears, they will no longer exist and the rest of us can get back to raising families, building careers and enjoying life.
Leftists, worried about hell, these are the same people who support, fund and operate all the abortion mills who snuff out over a million little heartbeats each year. The’ve always governed all the dysfunctional, decaying, dangerous big city ghettos. Totalitarians who demand complete control at any price, any discord from the opposition is not permitted. The First amendment be damned.
Unfortunately as we saw in November of 2020, there’s a huge group that are happy to let the government lead them as if they were sheep. Individual drive and responsibility is a shrinking entity in this country. It’s been replaced with Uncle Sam you you owe me ________. Just fill in the blank. Everything is now a birth right, especially if you are a POC.
I AM AN AMERICAN! I WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED. the day social media dies is the day we’re free again. They’re called the “good old days” for a reason.
“There’s a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country.” Yeah his name is Musk.
Ha ha. The guy’s one statement tells all, “about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country”… aka why don’t you tell us how you really feel or, better yet, what your real motive is
He looks like a chihuahua who’s been left out in the searing sun too long.
The real threat to America is the fake news media, particularly CNN. Luckily, Americans realize this (although Democrats don’t) and CNN is in full collapse. Hopefully, soon, America will be saved and CNN will be gone!
It is unfathomable just how closed and tunnel like, their thinking is. Like a good little naive democrat, this jerk is projecting what they are already doing, and it got Jerky Joe elected. When it comes to projection….they are pros.
Of course lefties are facing armagedon if the people are allowed free speech. They won’t be able to maintain the control of the country like they have been able to do for years now. They werew able to change the outcome of the presidential election with their banning of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Free speech to them is like Kryptonite to superman. FJB
I am constantly amazed how corrupt these people are and have no idea.
MSNBC, CBS ABC NBC PBS CNN, there is no other truth than the lies we spew.
and let they have no problem eliminateing the unborn fjb and thedevildonkeycrew
Isn’t the fit they throw when they think they are going to lose one of their censors and some truth gets a chance at getting out, quite telling??