While Discussing the Censorship of Covid Debate, Kara Swisher Goes on a Rant About ‘Uncle Satan’ Rupert Murdoch

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SWISHER: “So, I think what’s happened is reductiveness. Like, everybody has got to be, 'You were wrong, I was right,' and stuff like that. And what’s happening in this culture, and I think it’s because of three things: social media, gerrymandering, and Rupert Murdoch, I think pretty much if I had to pick three things whom I call — I know, it’s an easy clap, right — I call him Uncle Satan in the book because he’s avuncular and yet bad -- but one of the things that has happened is social media has caused us to — we talk about our grievances with each other all the time and we don’t tell stories about each other anymore. And that’s what happened, it’s reductiveness, so that you don’t get a debate and someone has to top to each other and dunk each other. And this is why I have a problem with Elon Musk owning X, because all he wants to do is dunk, right? Instead of, like, Mark Cuban, who both of you and I know, he did an amazing series on DEI, right? When he did it, I wrote him, I go, 'Godspeed, you’re going over there. Good luck.' And he did it and it was really smart and the response from Elon was, 'You’re a moron.' Oh, that’s debate. Well done, highest level of Oxford."