The richest person on Earth has just bought himself a very large and
potent portion of the Internet. We must fight back.
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Friend,
Today the world's richest man, mega-billionaire Elon Musk, was allowed
to buy one of the most potent communication platforms on Earth used by
hundreds of millions of people each day.
As the writer Anand Giridharadas argued, Musk's $44 billion purchase
of Twitter "isn't just some corporate takeover."
"This is about a set of very specific moves that our oligarchs have been
taking that have gradually concentrated economic, political, and
discursive power in fewer and fewer hands."
And let's be clear: an increasingly consolidated Internet is a direct
threat to small, independent outlets like Common Dreams. This control
squeezes our ability to survive in a media system focused on profits,
mining the personal data of users, and increasingly controlled by
oligarchs and corporate gatekeepers.
If independent journalism is to survive and we are to win a better
world, it's not enough to simply shake our fists at the corporate
behemoths and billionaire overlords like Musk.
We have to fight back in order to build and sustain the alternative
systems that give life to democracy and the progressive vision we
cherish. So please join with us today to ensure independent outlets like
Common Dreams remain strong in this battle for our future.
Our Spring Campaign is underway and we must not fall short.
If we don't fight back, who will?
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Jon Queally
Managing Editor
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