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Your lame programmed response that my TV told me so is getting well used. That is all you can respond with when Musks own words prove you wrong. He was fine with hate speech a few weeks ago, he was only going to bury it.
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Thanks for posting this. I had my account locked around the same time as Babylon Bee for a clearly sarcastic post I made to Dr. Simone Gold and I still haven't heard a word about the appeal.
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Funny thing about the timing of my Twitter account lockout: I've been fighting, and winning, the Right to open carry and setup a shooting range at Burning Man. Last fall I succeeded in forcing the BMORG to remove their firearm ban regulation and was almost there with the BLM when I got locked out. I'm sure it's a coincidence, but a shet ton of Twitter employees are anti-gun self-labeled communists who go to Burning Man.
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Re-read it yourself- not what CNN told you it said - actually read the words of the tweets. What Kanye said could be argued as being illegal, and at least certainly not “far beyond the law”.Your lame programmed response that my TV told me so is getting well used. That is all you can respond with when Musks own words prove you wrong. He was fine with hate speech a few weeks ago, he was only going to bury it.
The FACT of the matter is that the cabal of “journalists” that dictate your every waking thought have tried to get everything they disagree with as hateful and misinformation, and subject to censorship.
If Musk had allowed Kanye’s post to stand, you’d be criticizing him for allowing anti-semitism to stand. Since he cut him, you have to criticize him for not adhering to strictly free speech. It doesn’t matter what he does or doesn’t do. You only have your orders to hate him.
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Here’s a surprising one from (D) Congressman Ro Khanna. I admittedly know nothing about him, but I gotta admit I at least can respect him.
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I am not critiquing Musk. I am supporting his realization that complete free speech is not going to be possible on a platform that needs to pay the bills.
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Musk is not worth talking about. Twitter is not worth tweeting about (or on). Teslas will drive you into debt, and brain chips will fry your head. The stake in the heart of the vampire, these days, is simply withdrawing your attention.
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Did your party tell Musk to boot Ye?
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Here are the next two in the chain. Both sides were doing it. Granted, due to the political demographics of Twitter, the Ds got orders of magnitude more traction, but both sides were making censorship requests and being obliged.
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If you ask me, Musk’s “big reveal” fell flat on its face. I read it in real time, and the story that emerged was that the laptop-story was censored by some high-level snowflakes without the backing of policy or the CEO, and without the urging of the government. That’s the most benign of possible events that could have effected this censorship.
The one bit of government intervention that was detailed in the report was in reference to the suspension of White House Press Secretary McEnany, and that came in the form of a D Congressman warning Twitter staff that that might have been going too far, and a report that talks on Capitol Hill had reps from both sides mad about what they did.
The only other takeaway from this was that Twitter sucks as a platform for communicating anything but the simplest of bumper-sticker ideas. Go on Taibi’s Twitter and try to put the posts together in order. You can’t do it. Even when he was posting live, the order would get jumbled up, and you had to constantly refresh, only to find out that the thread had been interrupted, and you couldn’t find the last post in relation to the current or next one.
This “report” was hyped up, but was nothing compared to the story of Zuckerberg acknowledging that the FBI had encouraged them to consider stuff like the Laptop story to be Russian misinformation. THAT was a big deal.
The one bit of government intervention that was detailed in the report was in reference to the suspension of White House Press Secretary McEnany, and that came in the form of a D Congressman warning Twitter staff that that might have been going too far, and a report that talks on Capitol Hill had reps from both sides mad about what they did.
The only other takeaway from this was that Twitter sucks as a platform for communicating anything but the simplest of bumper-sticker ideas. Go on Taibi’s Twitter and try to put the posts together in order. You can’t do it. Even when he was posting live, the order would get jumbled up, and you had to constantly refresh, only to find out that the thread had been interrupted, and you couldn’t find the last post in relation to the current or next one.
This “report” was hyped up, but was nothing compared to the story of Zuckerberg acknowledging that the FBI had encouraged them to consider stuff like the Laptop story to be Russian misinformation. THAT was a big deal.
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The cabal
“So Elon, how’s that ‘free speech’ thing working out?” wrote White, who left Twitter last month, on Instagram. “Oh, I see, so you have to CHOOSE who gets free speech and who doesn’t then? What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech? Hmm….”
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“So Elon, how’s that ‘free speech’ thing working out?” wrote White, who left Twitter last month, on Instagram. “Oh, I see, so you have to CHOOSE who gets free speech and who doesn’t then? What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech? Hmm….”
Jack White Mocks Elon Musk's 'Free Speech' Hypocrisy After Kanye Twitter Ban
“It’s nice to watch in real time as you learn that all things need to be regulated,” wrote the musician
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I would not say it fell flat.
Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi reveal why Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story
The Twitter Files are interesting, but contain few true surprises: a mix of incompetence and partisanship got the site in trouble.
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Let's add another nuance.
Musk would not have opened his kimono to Taibbi if he was blindly following a party.
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Musk would not have opened his kimono to Taibbi if he was blindly following a party.
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Regular news and features by award-winning author and investigative reporter. Click to read TK News by Matt Taibbi, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of readers.
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I say it fell flat because it was extremely anti-climactic.I would not say it fell flat.
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Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi reveal why Twitter censored the Hunter Biden laptop story
The Twitter Files are interesting, but contain few true surprises: a mix of incompetence and partisanship got the site in trouble.
What if, the day before yesterday, someone said to you “Certain people at Twitter have been selectively moderating free-speech in a biased manner along ideological and political lines.”
Would that have shocked you?
I’m just saying it’s something we all already knew, and the way this report portrayed it, it happened according to the most mild of scenarios we could have imagined or alleged.
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