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POOR people , *DEMOCRATS (United States) , *POLITICAL participation , *GOVERNMENT policy , *CONSCIENCE , *RIOTS , *FREEDOM of speech , *UNITED States senators - Abstract
Musk, who has had more than a few feuds on Twitter - and feuds with Twitter - may have begun the takeover as a hectobillionaire's lark, but he appears to be sincere in his commitment to work toward a genuine culture of free speech and transparency at Twitter, suggesting that the firm should make some of its algorithms and content-moderation practices public. After Disney said it would fight a new Florida law on school curricula - which requires instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity to be age-appropriate - Governor Ron DeSantis and the state's Republican legislature passed a new law removing long-standing legal privileges the company has enjoyed in the state. Across Africa, he argued, there is poverty not because of long-concluded colonial oppression but because too many African countries are ruled by dictators and autocrats, some of them naïve idealists who wrecked their countries' economies by means of socialist central planning and some of them simply corrupt kleptocrats whose misgovernance and rapacity prevented investment and economic development. His country, like his state, is better for the multitudes he contained. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2022