The United States versus Social Media

 In a recent Tweet he explicitly tied abolition of Section 230 to national security. He is saying that the security of the American nation depends on stripping away the liability protections now granted to social media companies. What that would do to social media companies as they now exist, no one knows, but it would instantly be a different landscape. 

Recall who Wictor theorized were the trigger guys of this crime, the ones who made the decision on Election night to step on the gas pedal of phony Dominion-driven ballot creation, no matter how many it took, cranking it up to the point of making an outright mockery of the electoral process---all to counter the Trump tsunami they had convinced themselves was impossible.

He thinks it wasn't the Democrats themselves who make this decision.

He fingers the Silicon Valley tech barons, who are arrogant, idealistic, moralistic, and are used to getting their own way. They believe they are much smarter than Trump. At least two specific names spring to mind, each of whom is the co-founder of a large social media platform. I would not put Bezos on the list for now. This operation was way too sloppy in a technical sense for anything he would have signed onto, even in a fit of madness.

Would these individuals have been in a position of authority to make this happen? Perhaps. Are they of the character to have taken such an extraordinary step? Perhaps. Would they have needed the approval of anyone else outside this small circle? Perhaps not.  Perhaps they would have thought that this was their hour of destiny, to take charge of the reins of history, despite the caution that would have been proposed by other voices among the elite.

But don't hold your breath for the sight of these folks in orange jumpsuits, Wictor cautions. It will be enough to expose them and to possibly seize their assets. If you let go of the criminal prosecution, then we spare the nation a decade-long ordeal of trials, and better still, we can see all the evidence now, and render a collective judgment as a nation. The question I posed over Thanksgiving dinner was: would anyone, left or right, be heartbroken at the thought of these people destroyed?