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CBS News Suspends Twitter Posting
The network claims it stopped using its account to “monitor” the situation at Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover.
“In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform,” Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News national correspondent, said according to a report from NBC News Saturday.
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In a recent “open letter,” leftist advocacy group Accountable Tech and other progressive groups demanded that corporations pull their ads from Twitter.
“Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter came with his promise to advertisers like you that the social network would not transform into a ‘free-for-all hellscape’ and would remain ‘warm and welcoming to all,’” the letter read.
Accountable Tech’s website claims the group “is working to bring about long-term structural reform to tackle the existential threat social media companies pose to our information ecosystem and democracy.”
The Establishment Scrambles To Crush Its Agenda’s Worst Nightmare
But Markey evidently seems out of the loop on how censorious Twitter really was before Musk’s takeover. For instance, he says that the problem with Musk making a blue check available to anyone who pays $8 a month for it, is that “Joe Blow” can say “don’t wear a mask, don’t worry about Covid” while pretending to be the CDC or some more reputable agency while doing it.
“Joe Blow can say whatever Joe Blow wants to say within certain boundaries,” Markey said.
But can he?
Up until a day ago, Twitter had banned the popular satire site the Babylon Bee for making fun of a Biden Administration official, Rachel Levine, who serves as the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson was banned for criticizing transgender surgeries and tweeting “remember when pride was a sin?”
HemiHauler
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Looks like Elon Musk isn’t the free speech absolutist y’all were looking for.
PJay
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Elon Musk tweets that addressing the child sexual exploitation content on Twitter is priority #1!
www.tesmanian.com
Elon Musk Is Addressing Issue of Child Sexual Exploitation Content on Twitter After Years of Inactivity Under Platform’s Past Management
Elon Musk has begun addressing the issue of posting child sexual exploitation content on Twitter after years of inactivity on the platform under past management. Previously, the platform did not comprehensively address the issue of publishing content that demonstrates the sexual exploitation of...
PJay
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Project Veritas REINSTATED to Twitter
thepostmillennial.com
BREAKING: Project Veritas REINSTATED to Twitter
Project Veritas was suspended in 2021 after they released a video showing Facebook Vice President Guy Rosen admitting that the social media platform “freezes” comment sections on posts where they suspect, but have not necessarily have confirmed, that “hate speech” is taking place.
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Kinda like Tron when the towers start lighting up. 'Cept they turned blue from red.
Nice reference.
‘Priority #1’: Elon Musk To Address Twitter’s Child Sexual Exploitation Problem
Twitter’s alleged child pornography problem has been an issue for over a decade. Advocates for removing the material have been pleading with previous management to create immediate solutions for the sake of children who have been exploited for profit from material showing graphic pedophilia acts from their abusers.
Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough told The Verge last summer that the platform has “zero tolerance for child sexual exploitation.”
“We aggressively fight online child sexual abuse and have invested significantly in technology and tools to enforce our policy,” Rosborough said. “Our dedicated teams work to stay ahead of bad-faith actors and to help ensure we’re protecting minors from harm — both on and offline.”
Elon Musk's Twitter tyranny
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, new owner of Twitter and self-declared free speech absolutist, is reportedly scurrying around the internet and his Slack channels firing and silencing workers who disagree with him.
The hypocrisy shouldn’t be surprising. Americans often celebrate business leaders and entrepreneurs as icons of liberty and the expansive national spirit of free enterprise. The truth, though, is that business leaders are bosses, and a lot of the average worker’s typical subjugation occurs on the job. Musk’s treatment of his employees is a reminder that even bosses who claim to embrace freedom often, in practice, do not.
Musk took over Twitter less than a month ago, and immediately started making changes. Saddled with enormous debt from his inflated purchase price, Musk’s first cost-cutting measure was to fire half of Twitter’s workforce, including vital executives. One engineering manager vomited after he learned he was going to be forced to eliminate hundreds of people.
The people who were let go might consider themselves the lucky ones at this point. Musk has spent the past few days cozying up to the sort of far-right individuals who have long railed against Twitter, against the “liberal elite” and really anyone trying to regulate or critique racism and bigotry. Indeed, Musk is now acting as if he thinks his employees are lazy subversives who need to be disciplined and crushed.
Sorry Charlie .... employees do not get to bad mouth their employer what is the statement progressives say,
Words have consequences
Elon Musk Joins Anti-LGBTQ+ Libs of TikTok to Mock Fired Employee
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-joins-anti-lgbtq-222550935.html#The wealthiest man in the world, who had proclaimed himself a free speech absolutist before banning comedian Kathy Griffin from Twitter for mocking him, and who, in the two weeks of owning the social media platform, has overseen a mass exodus of employees (both firings and resignations), a radical increase in hate speech, and advertisers pulling contracts left and right, spent time making ableist jokes to a right-wing hate account on his $44 billion app.
On Tuesday afternoon, the anti-LGBTQ+ hate account Libs of TikTok tweeted several screenshots of a Twitter employee’s tweets that had resulted in their firing.
“How it started...How it’s going,” the account tweeted above the screenshots at 1:05 p.m. Eastern.
Thirteen minutes later, at 1:18 p.m., Elon Musk, who was not tagged in the tweet, replied to Libs of TikTok.
“A tragic case of adult onset Tourette’s,” Musk wrote.
Libs of TikTok, run by Chaya Raichik, has spent months maligning transgender Americans and the LGBTQ+ community more broadly. The account, according to experts, engages in stochastic terrorism tactics constantly. Yet Republicans and right-wing media personalities have embraced and amplified the account in the run-up to the midterm election.
Stochastic Terrorism . by merely repeating what queers post on TikTok
The true tragedy behind Musk’s Twitter buyout is the power of billionaires
Musk’s takeover of Twitter will affect millions of people both here at home and around the globe. The platform has no fewer than 450 million monthly active users and is one of the world’s most popular communication mediums. Other expected changes that Musk could make to Twitter — most notably, lifting the account suspensions of former President Trump and other high-profile, right-wing figures — will have huge ramifications in the age of misinformation.
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Billionaires certainly use their wealth to purchase private power in these ways but, critically, they also use it to purchase public power. Since the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision, billionaires have come to dominate the campaign finance scene in America to an astounding degree. They spent a whopping $881 million in this year’s midterm elections — 44 percent more than they did in the last midterm cycle in 2018. In the 2020 elections, billionaires contributed almost 1 out of every 10 dollars received by federal campaigns, with the top 20 combined spending over $2.3 billion, or more than twice as much as the entire Biden campaign.
Their political investments have certainly paid off, as public policy outcomes have come to almost exclusively reflect the interests and preferences of wealthy Americans. We can see this in many different policy areas, but nowhere more so than in the tax code. Today, billionaires pay much lower effective tax rates than everyday Americans who work for a living. Between 2014 and 2018, the richest 25 billionaires paid an average effective tax rate of just 3.4 percent on over $400 billion in gains while the average American pays 13.3 percent. And if that wasn’t enough, billionaires can, incredibly, sometimes get away with paying nothing at all in taxes, like Elon Musk did in 2018.
Unchecked billionaire wealth and power is a veritable crisis facing America today. It is unhealthy to live in a society where a few billionaires like Musk dictate how we go about living virtually every aspect of our day-to-day lives. Change needs to happen, and it needs to happen fast.
As of now, the best path forward to solving this crisis lies in taxing the rich. We certainly need to reform our campaign finance system to dilute the influence of big money, and we also need to safeguard our private institutions from being overwhelmed by billionaires’ voices and demands. At the very least, however, we need to take steps to strip billionaires of the resources — i.e. their extreme wealth — that enable their power in the first place by taxing them more.
Howard Klein is the former president of Reprise Records. He is a cofounder of Blue America PAC and a member of the Patriotic Millionaires.
Progressive Jealousy at its finest
Taliban Quits Twitter To Protest Return Of Trump
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Individuals and organizations are quitting Twitter in droves to protest Elon Musk's "recklessly violent" decision to reinstate Donald Trump's Twitter account, chief among them the Taliban.
The legitimate government's final tweet read, "So long, and thanks for all the American weapons!"
"Long has Twitter served as a safe haven of free speech for North Korea, Iran, Al Qaeda, and ourselves," said Taliban Spokesman Badrash Onmyrhir, still tired from a long day of lashing young women for daring to remove their head scarves. "But with Trump's return to the platform, we no longer feel safe from his violent and hurtful tweets."
babylonbee.com
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Individuals and organizations are quitting Twitter in droves to protest Elon Musk's "recklessly violent" decision to reinstate Donald Trump's Twitter account, chief among them the Taliban.
The legitimate government's final tweet read, "So long, and thanks for all the American weapons!"
"Long has Twitter served as a safe haven of free speech for North Korea, Iran, Al Qaeda, and ourselves," said Taliban Spokesman Badrash Onmyrhir, still tired from a long day of lashing young women for daring to remove their head scarves. "But with Trump's return to the platform, we no longer feel safe from his violent and hurtful tweets."
Taliban Quits Twitter To Protest Return Of Trump
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Individuals and organizations are quitting Twitter in droves to protest Elon Musk's "recklessly violent" decision to reinstate Donald Trump's Twitter account, chief among them the Taliban.
babylonbee.com
