Posted on 12/09/2022 2:47:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Elton John will no longer use Twitter, citing the platform's "recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked."
The social media company has come under fire since being purchased for $44 billion by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who had repeatedly questioned Twitter's commitment to free speech. He's since fired top executives, as well as a large portion of the company's overall staff, while implementing a number of controversial new features. He has also faced backlash after reinstating the Twitter accounts of both former president Donald Trump and Kanye West. (West was banned again for sharing anti-semitic material.)
John's announcement may be in reference to another recent development in which Twitter is now declining to enforce its own policy against COVID-19 misinformation.
"All my life, I've tried to use music to bring people together," John wrote in his farewell tweet. "Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world."
John is not the first well-known act to leave Twitter. Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor announced his decision to depart last month. "We don't need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything. Even without [Musk] involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment," he said. "For my mental health, I need to tune out. I don't feel good being there anymore."
Jack White quit over its new stance on moderation, but not before addressing Musk directly. "Perhaps you're learning how harmful it can be when you let dangerous, hateful people say whatever they want on your stage," White said in an Instagram post. "Do the right thing Elon and don't provide other hate mongers a stage."
Joe Bonamassa left social media entirely last month, though he cited more general reasons. "Social media has become such a distraction for me," Bonamassa wrote in a since-deleted post. "This place feels like it has the maturity of high school and I fear I am gonna be provoked one day into saying something I might regret. Enjoy it before it destroys your soul."
Someone wrote Reggie Dwight is not a freak and pervert.
In other words, he’s been subjected to differing opinions.
First good news I’ve had all day !
Maybe he was just born stupid, twitter has been a cesspool of misinformation since it’s inception
Has he? Do you think he really goes on himself? He probably has a company he pays to post things for him.
bye
Too bad. The little weirdo is why I’m on Twitter. What’ll we do now? Let’s hope Bette Midler doesn’t leave too!
Guess Elon may as well turn out the lights. You know, like a candle in the wind. 🤔
I don’t want alarm you Elton..but you are putting it in the wrong hole.
How can you write a song for one person, then totally dump that person and say it’s about another person?
Translated; Twitter is no longer a far left woke commie cesspool. At least not nearly as bad as it was and it continues to get better.
The slow process of continuing to weed out the bad apples still working there will take a while but they will get there.
All these celebs and others who are leaving Twitter are basically telling the world the are extreme commies of no value to American society. They are quite literally the enemy within.
Try sitting in the same room with an awfully out of tune piano and a cat walking back and forth on the keys john,, for years,,,
,, that’s what Twitter has been for cinservatives hearing only reprobate leftists.
See ya!
Did someone improperly say that anal sex between two men is unsafe?
The Satanists are going into digital hiding.
Soon it will be physical hiding.
But they will be found.
There is no freedom of speech unless a cacophony of irritating, bazar, mendacious, dilutional, and downright wrong information is allowed.
Only then does a site like Twitter become really interesting.
um.. yeah the unchecked misinformation is what Musk is trying to FIX!
There was a rumor going around that Elton John is gay. Thankfully, those people got banished.
The old poofter is still alive?
The long knives are out for Elon among the glitterati
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