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> Senator Ted Cruz went after Twitter’s Jack Dorsey after the CEO said Twitter has no influence over elections.

Is the answer to Senator Cruz's question (from the headline) "The board of directors of Twitter"?

Twitter has no influence on elections as much as the Russians didn't influence 2016 elections. All sides think we're stupid at this point.

Ted Cruz argued vehemently against net neutrality at the physical layer, on the basis that private markets, not governments, should dictate what traffic ISPs allow and prioritize on their pipes. But when there's a perceived bias against conservatives, suddenly he's all for government intervention at the application layer.

Cry me a river, Ted.

Ted is not stupid. He went to Princeton (cum laude, '92) and has a Harvard Law degree (magna cum laude, '95). He's acting.

The question is why.

It's not the same though. You can be at the same time for minimizing Government involvement and even allowing ISPs to decide how they prevent/censor business models, but draw a line when they begin to censor political speech.

It's not that those are impossible stances to reconcile in a vacuum (I agree that they are not). It's the cynical way that he ignored the pleas of everyone who said that abandoning net neutrality would lead to censorship and entrenchment of big tech when it didn't affect him, and then turned around and suddenly saw the problem when he perceived himself and his party as the victim.

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