It’s hard to overstate the importance of Elon Musk’s battle with the ADL.
The rollout of free social media was the most revolutionary development in information dissemination since the printing press.
When the regime realised just how revolutionary it was, they got to work spending years fighting for control through lobbying and financial manipulation. While much of this pressure is informal, through networks and backchannels, the ADL is the institutional, public face of this political racketeering network.
By 2020, their control of the major social media platforms was almost entirely secure. By forcing Facebook to change their terms of service according to his liking after a crushing advertiser boycott, Jonathan Greenblatt demonstrated that he had assumed the role of the final arbiter of speech on the internet.
Last year, it looked like there was little hope for a way out of this situation, until
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‘s surprise purchase of Twitter. The subsequent boycott headed by the ADL showed that even the richest man in the world can be scuppered by the malign influence of this group.
It seemed the only way to reverse the financial damage done by Greenblatt and his co-conspirators would be to gradually return control to the ADL, but now, riding a wave of popular support from X users, Elon has decided to draw a line in the sand and fight back.
The internet was the most revolutionary development of our age, and the fight to protect it from near total control by insidious actors like the ADL may turn out to be one of the most important fights of the century. Let’s all send Elon our prayers, and hope he can be the first to deal a fatal blow to the ADL. Godspeed Elon.
