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Elon Musk Isn't Paranoid, the Democrats Really are Coordinating an Attack On Him​

And Democrat politicians will use it all as a way to begin passing laws and coming down on Musk. They will do whatever they can to break him because in doing so they will eliminate a huge source of resistance to their narratives and agendas.

This is no longer a tinfoil hat kind of statement. We know they do this because we’ve seen it so often before and very recently and openly with the attacks on Donald Trump. The saga of the Democrat Party’s attempts to bring down one man has been nothing short of desperate and disgusting with open abuses by everything the Democrats have under their control. The House, Senate, media, intelligence agencies, and activist groups were all used as a way to collapse the influence of just one person, and they didn’t try to hide it either. They considered it a proud crusade, but in doing so revealed their hand.

Musk is, for all intents and purposes, the new Trump in the eyes and minds of the left. His actions could end up toppling a lot of hard work they’ve put into over the course of years, primarily establishing narratives that Democrats worked very hard to push on the people. If dialogues are allowed to flourish and information outside of what’s approved by the Democrat Party takes root in the minds of the people, it could upend everything. A domino effect could start with people asking themselves “if the Democrats lied about this then what else are they lying about?”

 

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Everyone seems to be all a Twitter​

Why so mad?

Most certainly, none of these organizations or individuals of a Leftist persuasion had ever expressed any of those same objections in all the previous years of Twitter’s outrageously heavy-handed, one-sided censorship/out-right election interference. This sudden concern is so confounding. As David wrote about this morning, the EU is SO incensed, they are threatening to ban the app. I can’t imagine why. John and Jazz have both recently told us about Musk’s efforts to clean the site of AntiFa accounts – I know he’s wiped a ton of child traffickers, as well – and begin the era of transparency he promised.

What’s not to love?

Oh, the Left. It’s had the opposite effect on their little pointy heads, and they seem to be in a frenzied panic. I mean, look who righteously weighed in this afternoon…while making even less sense than she does on any given day.













WHUT.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Twitter a “private business”? Does not Musk OWN said business, ergo has the right to run it as he see fit?

That’s what we were all told for years, as we were booted – sometimes permanently – as God knows what infraction caused the previous hierarchy to spaz, and OFF WITH OUR HEADS. “SILENCE, conservative peasant! It’s a private business.” *click* Of course, Warren wouldn’t know what “business” was if it hit her in the teepee, but she sure can spot a camera from a mile away.

 

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Jean-Pierre Dodges Question On If Biden Will Try To Shut Down Twitter If It Hosts Offensive Content​

“When you say that you’re going to be monitoring some of the speech on [Twitter], if you see something that you don’t like, would you try to shut Twitter down?” Doocy asked.

“So, look, you know, when you — when you talk about monitoring, you know, it is — I hate to break it to you, Peter: Just like everybody else, we very much monitor the news,” she responded. “We pay close attention to everything that you all are reporting, and — and Twitter is in the news a lot. And so that’s what we’re paying attention to. We’re paying attention to what is in the news and what is being reported on — on the misinformation that’s out there.”

She then highlighted how leftist organizations have “been very vocal about their concerns as well.”

“So, yes, we are reading what you all are writing, and looking at what you all are reporting about the misinformation that is out there,” she continued. “But, you know, I would hope that all Americans, including social media companies, civil rights organizations, as I just laid out, including Fox as well, will agree that we need to — you know, we need to — to, you know, call out hate speech and misinformation.”


yeah but WHO Judges Hate Speech and Misinformation

 

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A GOP With Backbone Would Support Elon Musk, Punish Apple, And Fight For Free Speech On Twitter​

Apple’s threat to remove Twitter from its App store for the crime of being a slightly more open forum for free speech under Elon Musk has been met with a chorus of outrage and substantive threats of congressional action by Republican leaders.

Just kidding. Republicans have barely said anything about it, and establishment Republicans have said nothing at all. With the exception of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who offered his opinion on a matter outside his purview as a governor, Apple’s threat to crush Twitter has been met more or less with silence, even from members of the GOP who consider themselves conservative. (Sen. Mike Lee, to his credit, tossed out a tweet saying Apple’s threat makes the case for the Open Apps Markets Act. But he’s the exception to the rule.) And though Apple leaders apparently smoothed over the “misunderstanding” with Musk on Wednesday afternoon, we have all seen this pattern: Big Tech’s anti-speech aggression always turns out to be a “mistake” or “misunderstanding” as soon as enough people notice.

This is why I’ve argued that actual conservatives, those who want to save the country and restore republic self-government, should stop calling themselves conservatives. At this point, the label amounts to an admission of failure and defeat, and might as well be the official title of those who desire above all to be the controlled opposition for a permanent leftist regime.

 

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Twitter's Former 'Truth and Safety' Poohbah Demonstrates Why We Are Ruled by Idiots​

In the past few weeks, there have been some cracks in the obvious collusion of Big Tech with the Deep State to decide what information you are allowed to hear. First, the “disinformation control board” formed by the Department of Homeland Security and chaired by some raving nutbag who thought censoring your social media communications while singing Mary Poppins songs was normal was shuttered; Former Disinformation Board Dir. Nina Jankowicz Says Biden Admin ‘Rolled Over’ After Criticism. Second, Elon Musk took the helm at Twitter: Fear Sweeps Twitter’s ‘Workforce’ as Elon Musk Plans to Fire 75% of Its Staff. Third, leakers started sending documents to Senators Josh Hawley and Chuck Grassley showing just how deeply entwined social media companies and the federal bureaucracy; see Leaked Documents Show DHS, the FBI, and Social Media Platforms Worked Together to Stop Debate on COVID, Hunter’s Laptop, and Election Integrity. Fourth, a “news” organization took some time to look at Hunter’s laptop and found that it was legitimate; CBS Authenticates Hunter Biden’s Laptop and Signals the Wheels on the Bus Are Coming for Joe. And yesterday, Twitter’s defenestrated head of “trust and safety” (lololol) Yoel Roth admitted, over two years after participating in the most significant election fraud since JFK’s father bought the White House for him that he was wrong, my colleague Teri Christoph covers that episode in detail In a Rare Moment of Liberal Truthfulness, Twitter’s Former ‘Trust and Safety’ Chief Admits It Was Wrong to Censor the Hunter Biden Laptop Story.

Roth’s hand-waving and excuse-making can be boiled down to one statement.

“We didn’t know what to believe, we didn’t know what was true, there was smoke — and ultimately for me, it didn’t reach a place where I was comfortable removing this content from Twitter,” Roth said. “But it set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells.”

Even though Roth has a Ph.D. in communications and is the author of such hard-hitting journal articles as No fats, no femmes, no privacy?, Zero feet away: The digital geography of gay social media, ‘No overly suggestive photos of any kind’: Content management and the policing of self in gay digital communities, and Locating the “Scruff Guy”: Theorizing Body and Space in Gay Geosocial Media, the first thought that should have occurred to him was it was not his job to decide what was true.

 

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Owens made the comments on Thursday during the “Candace Owens” show as she talked about people like Whoopi Goldberg, Gigi Hadid, Amber Heard, Jim Carrey and more who have left the platform since Musk’s takeover “because they just can’t bear free speech.”

“It’s very upsetting to them,” the host explained. “That the government is no longer controlling what we are saying to to one another via fact checkers and censoring story’s taking out the New York Post for sharing the truth about Hunter Biden. They need that. That’s a better world for them. They want a world that is not real, but a world that is controlled.”

“And so many of them have lined up, issued statements and said ‘You can no longer hear my thoughts in 180 characters or less, because I won’t stand for this. I won’t stand for the first amendment,'” she added. “And the list of people reads sort of like a 1990s yearbook of people that, you know, you look in the yearbook in the nineties like, oh, I remember, I remember that person he peaked in elementary school or he peaked in middle school, peaked in high school.”

Candace Torches D-List Exodus From Twitter

The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens roasted D-list celebrities who have made a “mass exodus” from Twitter under Elon Musk’s ownership and joked the list “reads sort of like a 1990s year book of people that” peaked in the 90’s. Owens made the comments on Thursday during the “Candace Owens” show as she...

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Hunter Biden laptop bombshell: Twitter invented reason to censor Post’s reporting​

Twitter “just freelanced” its baseless decision to censor The Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop scoop in the run up to the 2020 election — with top-level workers at the social media giant agreeing that controversial decision was “f–ked,” damning insider communications released by CEO Elon Musk Friday reveal.

The chaos and confusion behind closed doors at Twitter in the immediate aftermath of the October 2020 Hunter Biden expose show that a small group of top-level execs decided to label the Post’s story as “hacked material” without any evidence — behind the back of then-CEO and founder Jack Dorsey.

Musk tweeted a link to the account of independent journalist Matt Taibbi shortly after 6 p.m., who shed light on Twitter’s shady censorship decision by posting what appeared to be redacted emails between Twitter employees.

The decision to censor The Post’s story was made “at the highest levels of the company,” according to Taibbi, but without Dorsey’s involvement.

 

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The Freak-out Begins After Elon Musk Drops Explosive Hunter Biden Files​

Ben Collins is the dumpster fire of a reporter who completely botched the Q-club shooting in Colorado, originally making all kinds of wild claims about him being a far-right purveyor of conservative thought. Yet, once the news broke that the shooter was actually non-binary, Collins quickly shifted gears, still blaming the right, but this time for supposedly having bullied the shooter. Heads I win, tails you lose.

Here, he’s going after Matt Taibbi, who received the Hunter Biden files in question and did a long Twitter thread on them. So let me get this straight. NBC News’ supposed disinformation reporter is not mad that something that was true was suppressed. Instead, he’s mad that the details of how that happened are being revealed. Makes sense.


Then there’s the most predictable take of all coming from Bulwark hack Tim Miller. Apparently, the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were “revenge porn.”















The media is right wing ? What is this guy to the left of Mao ?

 

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Let’s assume a user’s payment for Twitter is the copious personal data they collect. A public utility must provide service to everyone who makes that payment. And because all users must abide by the same rules, if name-calling were prohibited, then “TERF,” “misogynist,” “Nazi,” and a whole bunch of other slurs the Left loves to use against their ideological enemies would be banned. A public utility cannot discriminate, even if the Left wants it to.

In a recent case that reached the Supreme Court, several users sued former President Donald Trump for blocking them on Twitter. They asserted that his timeline and their ability to respond were constitutionally protected. In his concurrence with the dismissal of the case, Thomas observed that a Twitter account could not really be a government forum if a private company could eliminate it on a whim. Twitter had suspended Trump’s account at that point.

“Today’s digital platforms provide avenues for historically unprecedented amounts of speech, including speech by government actors. Also unprecedented, however, is the concentrated control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties. We will soon have no choice but to address how our legal doctrines apply to highly concentrated, privately owned information infrastructure such as digital platforms.” Thomas wrote in his concurrence.

That could be why Thomas posited that social media companies might fit under the same rules that govern common carriers like phone services or places of public accommodation like movie theaters. The phone company cannot end your call if they do not like the opinion you are voicing, and a movie theater would be hard-pressed to bar you if you wore a MAGA hat to see the next Marvel Avengers film. This type of regulation could also prevent social media from throttling content from some media outlets while promoting others.

When a Stupid Actor Mistakenly Agrees With a Brilliant Supreme Court Justice

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The Real 'Threat to Democracy': Dems Colluded With Twitter to Affect the Outcome of the 2020 Election and the Media Doesn't Care​

Last month I wrote an opinion piece titled, “Why Are We so Polarized? ‘Blindspot’ Shows How Americans Are Living in Completely Different Realities.” The article discussed a very cool website, Ground News, which shows how much play stories get on the left versus the right or in what they call the center-based outlets based on their political views. RedState is no stranger to this: we serve a conservative audience—but we’re open (and proud) about it. The difference with so many other sources is that they are disingenuous about their approaches; they’re serving you up a liberal smorgasbord while telling you it’s straight news.

This roundup is just a snapshot of a moment in time, and the websites mentioned will surely update. But it illustrates that the 800-pound gorillas of “journalism” don’t even need censorship—they simply self-censor, and ignore information they don’t like. In what should be one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes—the (successful) attempts of politicians to collude with one of the most influential tech companies in the world to affect the 2020 presidential election—they are MIA.

Ground News reported when Elon Musk announced that he’d release the internal files that only 11 percent of the coverage was on the left. So it’s no real surprise that once the news actually broke, they showed that less than 20 percent of the coverage leaned left (their definitions of center/right can be amusing to those of us who are conservatives, but give them credit for pointing out the bias at all).

 

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Twitter Execs Ignored Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna's 'Speech' Concerns Over Censorship of Hunter Laptop Story​

One interesting bit of information that’s been revealed is that on that very first day Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents the Silicon Valley area, contacted Twitter’s former head of legal, policy and trust, Vijaya Gadde, to express his concerns about “speech.” In response, as Taibbi writes, Gadde dove “into the weeds of Twitter policy, unaware Khanna was more worried about the Bill of Rights.”













Khanna replied with a very good take on the “hacked materials” issue and Twitter policy in light of New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment case. Khanna correctly points out that the Post should not be held accountable even if the materials are hacked, if their reporters weren’t the ones who hacked them. He wrote:

But this seems like a violation of 1st Amendment principles. If there is a hack of classified information or other information that could expose a serious war crime and the NYT was to publish it, I think the NYT should have that right. A journalist should not be held accountable for the illegal actions of the source unless they aided in the hack. So to restrict the distribution of that material, especially regarding a presidential candidate, seems not in the keeping of the principles of NY Times v. Sullivan.

But there is another reason Khanna wants Twitter to slow their roll:

I say this as a total Biden partisan and convinced he didn’t do anything wrong. But the story now has become more about censorship than relatively innocuous emails and it’s become a bigger deal than it would have been. It also is now leading to serious efforts to curtail Section 230 – many of which would have been a mistake.
I believe Twitter itself should curtail what it recommends or puts in trending news, and your policy against QAnon groups is all good. It’s a hard balance.

Khanna, as a veteran of many political elections, knows what he’s talking about here – when a negative story comes out about your candidate, you ignore it until you can’t. Twitter’s policy made it where the censorship became the story, and that was bad politically — even if it was simply negative for Big Tech on Capitol Hill.

 

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Macron holds 'clear and honest' talk with Musk​

Macron tweeted that he voiced concerns about content moderation on the highly influential platform, which Musk, who also owns electric car giant Tesla, bought for $44 billion in October.

"I'll say it here, on Twitter, because it's all about the blue bird. This afternoon I met with (Musk) and we had a clear and honest discussion," Macron tweeted after the hour-long, closed-door sit-down at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

"Transparent user policies, significant reinforcement of content moderation and protection of freedom of speech: efforts have to be made by Twitter to comply with European regulations," Macron said.

The meeting came as Musk is facing pressure over his plans for Twitter and the site's ability to control hate speech and illegal content.