Posted on 11/18/2022 9:48:01 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The news surrounding Elon Musk and his takeover of Twitter seems to change by the hour. Last night, it was liberal journalists — but I repeat myself — with their hair on fire over what they thought was the impending shutdown of the site. A site, it should be noted, that they considered their personal sandbox before Elon came along and peed in it. Many Twitter Circles were formed so they could cry it out together; some channeled their inner teenage girl and dramatically announced their departure for other platforms … only to find those other platforms were laborious to navigate and not nearly as much fun as Twitter.
Twitter, of course, did not shut down overnight and many journos and their leftist politico friends look a bit foolish today.
Today, the big development was the triumphant return to Twitter of Jordan Peterson and The Babylon Bee, two accounts that had previously been banned (Peterson for daring to question transgenderism and the Bee for lampooning Rachel Levine).
Basking in the appreciation for the return of these beloved-by-conservative accounts, Elon Musk asked users, “What should Twitter do next?”
User HardcoreNolley had a suggestion: Bring back Alex Jones.
No
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
Seems to be a hard pass from Musk.
Jones and his site, InfoWars, were permanently banned from Twitter more than four years ago, apparently for posting a video in which Jones had some harsh words for CNN’s Oliver Darcy:
“Those are the eyes of a rat,” Jones told Darcy in the video. Jones also called the CNN reporter “the equivalent of like the Hitler Youth” and said that he smiles “like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow.”
Jones, of course, was recently on the losing end of a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the parents of the schoolchildren killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. He’s been ordered to pay the families an astonishing $1.5 billion in damages.
Now that we know Alex Jones won’t be welcomed back onto Musk’s Twitter, we anxiously await word on if Donald Trump and his mean tweets will resurface as the 2024 presidential election gets underway. He always keeps things lively, and journalists whose careers are built on trashing Trump will happily pay the $8 for a verified account if it means being able to hang on his every tweet.
So Elon is after something besides free speech. A different business model, a political platform, a social media platform to incorporate into some commercial plan..... but he is not after free speech after all.
Could be because of liability issues.
Jones is radioactive with a multimillion dollar judgement against him. Musk may simply afraid of putting him back on. I imagine this is what legal advised him.
That’s not a lie. The world cup in a Muslim country is ridiculous. Any sport in a Muslim country is wrong.
Alex Jones would scream fire in a crowded theater while selling fire extinguishers in the lobby.
Musk should ban MSNBC. It’s not much better than Alex Jones.
This.
In a court declared a serial liar, over a billion dollars liable.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985
In a reply Tweet, Musk says "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" which of course is Latin for "the voice of the people is the voice of God".
Not easy to maintain a public toilet bowl.
>>Alex Jones would scream fire in a crowded theater while selling fire extinguishers in the lobby.
and then when the burned bodies were all piled up in front of him for all too see, would call them crisis actors.
ROFL! Brilliant. Sadly, so would a certain segment on FR.
Either Musk is free speech, or he isn’t. Maybe these people don’t want to be on Twatter ever again.
I was permanently suspended in 2019.
Still can’t access my account.
I have an account there I signed up for and have never used. The cesspool there didn’t impress me.
Why is it people do not understand that they didn’t really go after Jones for stupid Sandy Hook? They went after Jones because of his anti NWO/WEF speech. Sandy Hook was just a way to bankrupt and silence him for good.
This is going to happen to many people and they had better hope there is nothing the govenment can use to shut you up and put you away in your history.
One of these days they could use the things we post here against us. No running or hiding anymore.
and in the same fashion, they didn’t go after Kanye for anti-semitism for posting a link to a book on amazon. A month earlier, Kayne posted an Alex Jones clip from years ago about the NWO, viruses etc.
Screw Alex Jones. I can’t wait until they take his $1 trillion dollars
Funny how ive never used twitter or FB and see no need for it in my life.....EVER.
And all of thought Elon was on ‘your side’.
This dude wants to implant his brain chip inside you - Neuralink.
Lots of suckers out there.
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