Why was I bored by the Twitter files?

I mentioned that a short while ago, and a few people wrote and asked me to explain.  The answer is simple: I have the Vietnam War and Pentagon Papers as formative political memories.  In those days, it was simply taken for granted that the government twisted the arm of news media.  It also never stopped, and “government” and “CEOs” talk to each other all the more these days.  Solve for the equilibrium, and thereby you also can learn how it is so hard to stop.  To be clear, I am quite against such interference with the media, outside of a few well-specified cases (“please don’t report where the troops are massing for D-Day,” and so on.)  On any gray area I am going to side against the government, if only for slippery slope reasons.  By its nature such communications are inevitably coercive, even if a transcript of them might sound entirely friendly and non-threatening.  There was a paranoia to those earlier times (ever watch the Coppola/Gene Hackman movie The Conversation?) that turned out to be justified.

If you have been “pilled” on this issue by Elon and the discovery process, great.  But for me it was like reading about waste inside the Pentagon…