Posted on 11/30/2022 11:46:51 AM PST by cotton1706
The Intercept published a story yesterday titled “Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk.” Like the article itself the headline is a bit vague on what is happening and why. What is clear is that over the past few days a bunch of well-known anti-fascist accounts have been suspended.
Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.
As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.
Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.” In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report “Antifa accounts” that should be suspended directly to him.
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Revenge is exclusively the prerogative of the Left.
Don’t know particulars or veracity of this story yet, but seems pretty plausible that there have been promotion of political violence by Antifa accounts that have always been against terms of service but up until recently a bind eye was turned.
There was a plan to assault some Tesla dealers last weekend, Never heard anything. 🚖💣
“Don’t know particulars or veracity of this story yet, but seems pretty plausible that there have been promotion of political violence by Antifa accounts that have always been against terms of service but up until recently a bind eye was turned.”
That’s correct. And Musk points that out further down in the article.
But of course, these have NEVER been shut down.
But the Babylon Bee was banned because it was “dangerous”
“All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements”
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That’s why I hate reading Sexton articles. He’s the leftist troll on Hotair. Andy Ngo (who is still in hiding due to Antifa) reported and wrote the most inside secrets of what really happens inside antifa “protests” and why they RARELY go to jail (feebee creation)
Any unmasked male Antifas were imasculated neocommies and t**tboys. Teachers, lawyers, fagoids etc.
They mostly go after old people and women, because actual men can stomp their pinko skulls in.
We really need to start writing this way:
Conservative bloggers had been singled out for criticism by John Sexton, a far-left writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on right-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small patriot groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “white nationalists.”
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WTF is this presstitute talking about? They are NOT AntiFascists, they are FASCISTA, See Occupy Wall Street when they created their name Anti First Amendment, Speech is Violence...A simple 5 minutes of research by this Presstitute and he would have known this.
I’d be willing to bet you have the right of it...
“Wadda’ya mean I’m suspended? I’ve been doing this all along and the previous Mods didn’t care that it was a violation...”
My skull stomping boots are ready. When do we go pinko hunting?
faaaaaaaar-right
“the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called “antifa.””
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Talk about delusion.
John Sexton is an imbecile, if he believes those words he wrote.
Sure thing, Sexton. The only delusion here is that somebody at Hotair mistook you for a writer.
It seems to me...
That Musk should essentially start fresh and have a 100% amnesty. Fresh slate for all. Allow ALL to be reinstated.
Day 1. Publish clear ground rules. And THEN publicly ban for TOS violations. And apply standards evenly and consistently.
Any way other than that and it comes off as retaliation and petty.
retaliation and petty.
So what?
Banning far right and far left....hmmm, sounds like the establishment uniparty at work.
Way too funny. a Stalinist propaganda organ, The Intercept, calling someone, anyone as being "Far-Right" is funny
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