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Frida Ghitis: Tech billionaires are taking over American government and American media in a spectacular revenge of the nerds.
She says they reject public service, choosing to hoard their wealth or spend it on vanity projects rather than use it to aid the far less fortunate.
Ghitis says Jeff Bezos is trying to curry favor with Trump because he wants to be spared some pain in the trade war.
Frida Ghitis: Elon Musk is a self-styled “free speech absolutist” Ghitis says he's seen his encroachments on the free press spoken of in the language of liberty and freedom is especially cynical.
She says tech titans like Musk say criticism of me trespasses on free speech; censoring views I disagree with does not.
Ghitis writes: With Trump in office, speech has been constrained in ways that are best characterized by various ignominious -ists: McCarthyist.
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