On Sunday’s episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, media analyst and rabid leftist David Zurawik claimed that Congress needs to step in to regulate social media platforms now that free speech advocate Elon Musk has bought Twitter.
“I think there's a bigger problem that when we focus on the personalities of people like Elon Musk,” Zurawik said before complaining that there's too much focus on speculating over what Musk is thinking or what his intentions are for the social media platform that he recently purchased:
There's a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country. 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 wailed that “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.” Yet Zurawik and his media allies apparently have no problem with their billionaires buying media companies like the Washington Post.
“We've already seen that with the 2016 election, and Zuckerberg, when he was taking rubles for ads from Russia,” Zurawik huffed and claimed, “Musk is the same.”
Becoming more and more unhinged, Zurawik cried: “This is dangerous. We can't think anymore in this country.” This caused host Brian Stelter to audibly laugh.
“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.”
Ending his rage-filled tirade Zurawik whined: “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.”
To leftists like David Zurawik, letting people with opposing views speak openly is tantamount to being in “hell.” This shows how detached from reality they truly are.
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CNN’s Reliable Sources
5/1/2022
11:18:52 a.m. EasternDAVID ZURAWIK: No, I think there's a bigger problem that when we focus on the personalities of people like Elon Musk and people say oh, I think Elon is thinking this or that, there's a bigger problem here about how we are going to control the channels of communication in this country. 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. 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.
We've already seen that with the 2016 election, and Zuckerberg when he was taking rubles for ads from Russia and saying “oh I think it's crazy to think they had any influence on this election.” Musk is the same. Musk doesn't want -- he's upset with the FCC, how dare they question him? You know what I'm saying? This is dangerous. We can't think anymore in this country, we don't have people.
BRIAN STELTER: [laughs]
ZURAWIK: No, I'm serious, 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. 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.
