Steve Randy Waldman<p>“Speech may be free, but in practice political speech is beyond the buying-power of the vast majority of citizens. It is no coincidence that social media has arisen in parallel with this development, offering the appearance of free speech but ensuring that the clamour of the crowd (or the occult working of the algorithm) muffles most of it.” <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/DavidTimoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DavidTimoney</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FromArseToElbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FromArseToElbow</span></a> <a href="https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/09/money-talks.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2</span><span class="invisible">024/09/money-talks.html</span></a></p>