Thread by @SteveSchmidtSES

I thought👇this tweet was very interesting and well worth a read. Couple points. The operative word here is FEEL. @waitbutwhy feels something similar to Musk which I don’t feel but I am interested in knowing about. Listening to how people feel is a key ingredient in emerging from

https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1519851044666183681

2/ this nasty, stupid and low era. Feeling is different than thinking . Some people think that Billionaires should pay 90% tax rates. Others think that is punitive and confiscatory. Both points of view have a basis for existing. Tolerance for different thinking is key in a free

3/ society. Thinking is different than knowing. I know Joe Biden won the election. There should be no space in the town square where feelings and opinion stand equally with fact. Feeling, opinion and knowing; three very different things. They are often confused and shouldn’t be.

4/ A decision by @elonmusk and @twitter to obliterate any standards of conduct is a decision that is within their decision boundary. Allowing hostile foreign propaganda, blatant lying, smearing, character assassination, racist abuse, homophobic abuse ect.. is a multibillion

5/ dollar business decision. It has nothing to do with Free Speech. If during my next @Delta flight ✈️ I decide to recite the Gettysburg address in the middle of the plane and I am told to sit down by the flight attendant I haven’t been censored. These aren’t difficult concepts

6/outside a middle stage Idiocracy. If there is a sign on the store door that says no shirt, no shoes and a Catholic walks in with no shoes and declares they are Jesus the store owner isn’t discriminating against Catholics or against Freedom of religion. It means he wants people

7/ to wear shoes in his store and he gets to do that because he Owns it. #civics