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.”
Careful Elon or she’ll unleash a tiktok attack on you. Nina (scary poppins) skankowitz is not to trifled with.
If one wants to add context to a tweet, can’t they just put in a reply?
A more accurate term to use rather than the recently made up term “disinformation” is the word propaganda. Scary Poppins is a Propagandist.
She’s a Soviet Commissar.
Things didn’t end well in the old Soviet Union when the entire pack of lies the system was built upon imploded in on itself.
“Even though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter,” Musk explained.
For a guy so smart that a pretty damn stupid thing to say. The “division” comes when you disagree with the left. This whole article is about the Left’s idea that THEY own the truth. It shows that Musk is still in denial about where this is all going.
I don't know anything about Twitter: Is it possible for the OP to block replies?
But in such cases, anyone with a dissenting opinion could simply post his own tweet, right?
Regards,
Hey, you sound like some sort of “free speech” absolutist! The DGB won’t stand for that sort of insurrectionism, comrade!
“I don’t know anything about Twitter: Is it possible for the OP to block replies?”
Neither do I. I suppose Twitter could block edits as well, without us knowing about the blocking.
I'm not a Twitter user, but I do read various posts now and then. Isn't that EXACTLY what the platform allows? People can and do comment on what the original poster said.
The comments are typically vile liberal trash talk and do not add value to a conversation, but the platform lets users add any "context" they want.
Everyone in the Biden tribe is a ding bat they can’t do anything right even by accident.
Exactly. The comment is a literal cesspool of false and vile information already.
I’ll take the bad with the good with Musk. He’s right on the things that are really important.
Maybe he’ll come around eventually on Trump.
In other words ninanazi will be inspecting all postings and messages and deciding if they’re acceptable or not. She’ll have the IP addresses too, so she can find out your address from the ISP and send her DGB gestapo to pay you a visit and remind you of the thoughts you should be thinking.
The media haven’t told the public about DGB, and the public as usual has its head up where there is no sun. So DGB was implemented and is in full operation. The public is distracted by Ukraine Crisis and Supreme Court Crisis.
Freedom of Speech was pretty much a joke until recently. Now it’s gone, and just a fond memory.
“...a group of elites should be able to “add context” to other users’ tweets.”
How can they know what was in someone else’s mind?
Words of wisdom/genius from Adele
People say crazy things
Just ‘cause I said it, don’t mean that I meant it
Just ‘cause you heard it
What she is describing sounds exactly like what Winston Smith did at his job at MiniTru.
Wouldn’t just responding to a tweet with an oppositional tweet be adding info to the tweet being responded to?
The left wants to be God...
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Well, Jankowicz is demanding that only “verified” persons should be allowed to “add context”. Not some low life pleb..
On Gab they posted one of her singing video’s. “I want to be rich and famous and powerful.” In the middle of it, she exclaims, “Who do I have to f*ck?” She’s a real piece of work.
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