Behind The Tweet: Dear Right-Wingers

These are the kinds of tweets flying around that drive my crazy:

Dear right-wingers,

If #NetNeutrality was reversed, George Soros () could buy a controlling interest in AT&T, Verizon, & Time Warner Cable and COMPLETELY BLOCK access to Fox News, Breitbart, etc. for 99% of the country.

Let that sink in.

This isn’t a partisan issue.

— William LeGate #SaveNetNeutrality (@williamlegate) November 21, 2017

I agree it shouldn’t be a partisan issue, because net neutrality is a technical concept, but since nobody understands computers, least of all politicians, both sides have defined it as a partisan issue, and here we are with dumb tweets like this.

Firstly, when you begin your tweet “dear right-wingers,” you have instantly shown that don’t know or care about your supposed target audience.

Secondly, does this guy really think a “right-winger” is going to read that tweet and think, “Oh my, he’s right! Golly gee! I’ve been wrong all this time! Let’s hug it out over net neutrality!” Come on. That tweet is an applause line for an audience of “left-wingers,” period. That is not how you genuinely communicate with people of differing views.

Thirdly, that’s a ridiculous scenario that will not happen. Even if George Soros bought up everything and controlled Fox News, you know, circumventing all the applicable laws on these matters, he’s smart enough to know that Fox News makes money by selling right-wing content to right-wingers. Why would any businessperson turn off such a large money faucet?