Posted on 05/14/2022 6:18:33 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Billionaire and free-speech warrior Elon Musk skewered the mindset of Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) leader Nina Jankowicz for suggesting a group of elites should be able to “add context” to other users’ tweets.
Remember when nobility were knights in shining armor? Now the nobles just want to nag your tweets. A Twitter user shared a video in which DGB head Jankowicz suggested that “verified” Twitter users she deems “legit” can place “context” over users’ tweets: “So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter, the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets."
Musk shredded the idea as “Disconcerting …” in a May 12 tweet, appearing to warn internet busybodies in a later post: “Don’t Diss Information.”
Twitter repeatedly silenced former President Donald Trump during his presidency until it finally banned him, a move many world leaders condemned for being unwarranted, irrespective of their political leanings. Jankowicz seemed to use that example as the gold standard: "Just as an easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said.”
Musk spoke more about how Twitter should be run that same day, particularly on how it should treat the potential return of former Trump. “Even though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter,” Musk explained.
The account purportedly representing Lex Fridman of the Lex Fridman podcast commented: “Agreed. Permanent ban increased division, resentment, and hate in the world, not decreased it. It just moved it off the platform. Conversation is the only thing we have to heal the division and celebrate our common humanity.”
Musk appeared to agree wholeheartedly, writing, “Exactly.”
It may have been inevitable for free speech warrior Musk to lock horns with censorship commissar Jankowicz.
Jankowicz, despite being one leader of an ongoing liberal purge of so-called “disinformation,” has a history of spreading false information. She spread Trump-Russia collusion talking points ranging from the debunked Alfa Bank narrative from 2016 to praising a speech that parroted the debunked Steele Dossier. Critics often compare the censorship board under President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security to the “Ministry of Truth” from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
Retired U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez quipped in response to the resurfacing of Jankowicz’s history: “So head of now notorious #DHS #DisinformationGovernanceBoard was promoting disinformation online in 2016 and beyond. But it was the type of disinformation you get a pass for these days.”
Dissent is no longer tolerated by the elites of both parties.
“Dissent is no longer tolerated by the elites of both parties.”
Yes.
What the Leftist SJW Culture Have in Common with Communist Chinese Culture
Dec 09, 2021 | 🚀 Fathership
Written by S.G. Cheah
The American Far-Left and Communist China.
Some might say “Do you really need an essay to state the obvious?” Part of me would even agree that is unfair to compare the American Left to Communist China’s culture because the Communist Chinese society is still far worse than anything that most of us in the free West can understand.
But America (and everyone in the free world) must be vigilant and pay attention to the movement that is currently unfolding in Hong Kong. Their protest against Beijing’s tyranny will set the course for the future of freedom.
The Hong Kongers’ fight against Beijing’s tyranny is a symbolic parallel of our own struggle to protect our own freedom and liberty here in America.
Putting aside China’s thirst of usurping America as the global superpower, we should also take note of the similarities that the Chinese Communist culture share with the American Social Justice Left.
Listed below are some of the resemblance the American Far-Left shares with today’s Chinese Communist culture.
No room for dissent or differing opinions
The American Left is notorious for their intolerance concerning differences of opinions. The same trend is observed in China today.
Chinese citizens, brainwashed by the communist government, demonstrates utter intolerance to the Hong Kongers right to protest. Threats of violence and force are called upon to secure the complete crackdown on the people of Hong Kongers..... Read at:
https://fathership.co/what-the-leftist-sjw-culture-have-in-common-with-communist-chinese-culture
I urge everyone on both sides to see the "2000 Mules" documentary. And then "Mary Poppins" can tell us all about the "election fraud" disinformation. F her, Majorkis, and Brandon.
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