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We Should Stop Believing Elon Musk Is Committed To Free Speech At Twitter
The Federalist ^
| 06/02/2023
| Jack Weir
Posted on 06/02/2023 8:13:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many on the right heralded Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter as a major victory in the culture war. But that celebration appears premature. On June 1, Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing wrote that Twitter had scuttled a deal for the conservative multimedia outlet to screen its massively popular documentary “What Is A Woman?” on the social media site.
After initially agreeing to show the film, Boreing says he was told Twitter “would no longer provide us any support and would actually limit the reach of the film and label it as ‘hateful conduct’ because of ‘misgendering.’” The news was surprising because after Musk purchased Twitter, the site supposedly eliminated previous policies on punishing users for so-called “misgendering” to affirm Musk’s commitment to free speech.
After being called out on his own website over the episode, Musk claimed he overrode the decision of his employees and called the incident “a mistake by many people at Twitter.” However, that evening when the Daily Wire posted the documentary to its Twitter account, it was slapped with a label that said, “This Tweet may violate Twitter’s rules against hateful conduct,” and users were not allowed to share the film.
If the only way for free speech to prevail on Twitter is to make an appeal to the site’s easily distracted owner, and even he still can’t prevail over the decision of his employees, it prompts an obvious question: Who is really running Twitter? People who care about free speech aren’t going to like the answer. Musk’s recent selection of wokeist Linda Yaccarino for CEO raises all kinds of alarms.
Twitter’s much-publicized advertiser drought must be weighing heavily on Musk, who likely overpaid for the social networking platform, which is struggling to turn a profit. Viewed in this light, Musk’s selection of Yaccarino makes sense. She is the former chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, where she led a 2,000-member team that generated over $100 billion in ad sales while managing the company’s digital portfolio. Yaccarino appears to be genuinely competent — not some mediocre diversity hire.
The problem is that Yaccarino appears to have been thoroughly consumed by the woke mind virus. Since her selection by Musk, concerning videos from her recent past have resurfaced. In one of them, a PSA for Penn State, Yaccarino recites with nauseating enthusiasm the party line on Covid, telling students among other things to “mask up or pack up.” Her performance makes plain that she is a member of the herd, a tool of the regime who is unlikely to oppose its worst impulses — something that her collaboration with the Biden White House in the creation of its unprecedented, intrusive coronavirus vaccination campaign shows beyond doubt.
In another video, Yaccarino praises Larry Fink and BlackRock, two of the driving forces behind the destructive environmental, social, and corporate governance, or ESG, movement, for calling on CEOs across the country “to fulfill a gap in society that it was once assumed that the government would provide for people … we [corporations] have a responsibility to impact culture for the good, and the bottom line is that when you have those priorities and values as a company, it’s good for business.”
Her enthusiasm for ESG should not come as a surprise; she is, after all, an executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab’s far-left cabal of globalist technocrats and the originators of the Great Reset. If this doesn’t set off alarm bells, then you haven’t been paying attention.
Even more concerning is Yaccarino’s conception of “the good.” In yet another video, she touts NBCUniversal’s $100 million commitment “to fight for social justice and equality” in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots. That commitment included $75 million in cash for radical organizations such as the Equal Justice Initiative, National Urban League, Community Justice Action Fund, Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, and the NAACP, an official partner of BLM.
It also includes contributions to unspecified groups fighting for injustice against any so-called gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, etc., “to create a more equitable, just, and inclusive society.” The remaining $25 million was earmarked for media supporting these causes. The company’s monetary contributions were accompanied by new DEI programs, including discriminatory quotas to remake the largest news division in the country to be “50% women and 50% people of color.”
According to Yaccarino, these are all “exciting steps of progress.” If that isn’t a damning indictment of her, then nothing is. It’s also, by extension, a damning indictment of Musk.
Sadly, Musk’s hiring of Yaccarino is not the only sign of his recent poor judgment. In April, Musk made it known that he voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election. And in a May 16 CNBC interview, Musk said he does not believe the 2020 election was rigged. That he still holds this opinion after the censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story (on Twitter, no less) and the release of the Durham report is truly incomprehensible, as both are clearly demonstrative of the regime’s willingness to interfere in elections. This is to say nothing of Musk’s moral failings, such as his problems with women, tacit support of abortion, and transhumanistic ambitions.
Why, then, do so many on the right continue to idolize Musk? Unfortunately, many likely do so for no other reason than his provocative tweets. Regardless, if the right is serious in its extolling of virtue, it must do better than to put individuals like Musk on pedestals. Giving lip service to free speech while empowering woke censors isn’t worthy of our trust.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; florida; freespeech; rondesantis; ronisthereason; twitter
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To: SeekAndFind
As far as the “What is a Woman” movie, it is now openly available on Twitter and Elon himself tweeted it out asking his followers to watch it.
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:15:14 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: SeekAndFind
As stated some time ago, I was never impressed by Elon Musk.
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:15:30 AM PDT
by
reasonisfaith
(What are the cosmological implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
To: SeekAndFind
I was suspended for telling someone to hold their breath while waiting. They also sent me links to a suicide prevention website
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:17:15 AM PDT
by
roving
(👌⚓)
To: NohSpinZone
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:17:59 AM PDT
by
1of10
(be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
To: SeekAndFind
We Should Stop Believing Elon Musk Is Committed To Free Speech At Twitter
At least he seems committed to freer speech than Jack Dorsey ever was, and that's already a win. And we don't really know how Musk's Twitter is going to turn out - he's still got a lot of restructuring and weeding out to do, and we don't know what his new CEO is going to do. Still a work in progress, as far as I can see.
To: SeekAndFind
Oh just leave Musk alone, he’s improved Twitter far byond what was hoped for and he’s not finished yet.
If we keep being so critical of those who are taking back, for the people, those things which matter to so many we’ll end up without anyone stepping up!
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:19:32 AM PDT
by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
To: SeekAndFind
Musk is underwater with his $44 billion dollar purchase of Twitter. I’m sure Elon would be willing to sell Twitter to the author of this article for the bargain basement price a $35 billion and the new owner can run Twitter as they see fit.
To: Round Earther
RE: Musk is underwater with his $44 billion dollar purchase of Twitter.
The dollar figures were mentioned in an interview with Musk a few weeks ago. His response was he doesn’t care about the money, Free Speech is more important to him, he says.
Well, that’s easy to say for a man worth nearly $200 Billion. He could lose 90% of that and still be richer than most billionaires ( Trump included ).
To: reasonisfaith
I’m still banned on Twitter.
I wonder how many conservatives still are banned on Twitter.
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:27:32 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
To: SeekAndFind
It’s back on Twitter. I guess this doomcrier couldn’t wait even a day to see what Musk would do.
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:27:47 AM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:29:16 AM PDT
by
chopperk
To: SeekAndFind
Looks like Musk is fixing that problem...
*****
Heads Roll at Twitter After The Daily Wire Is Censored, but Elon Musk Stirs New Controversy
Red State ^ | | 9:45 PM on June 01, 2023 | By Bonchie
Posted on 6/2/2023, 11:19:57 AM by Red Badger
The ongoing controversy over Twitter’s censorship of The Daily Wire for alleged “misgendering” escalated on Thursday evening with the social media giant’s Head of Trust and Safety, Ella Irwin, resigning in the wake.
That’s most likely because she and her department are the ones who made the decision to label tweets by Matt Walsh as violating Twitter’s “hateful conduct” policies. The result was a warning label being placed on the posts along with sharing disabled....
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:30:28 AM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: SeekAndFind
I post at twitter as openly as I post here
They used to yank 50%
Nothing is pulled anymore
Musk rectified this issue
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posted on
06/02/2023 8:36:13 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Technology is not by default an improvement )
To: reasonisfaith; chopperk; SeekAndFind
It accumulated 9 million views overnight while it was "suppressed", then Elon unsuppressed it, and tweeted it this morning. It now has 34 million views.
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posted on
06/02/2023 9:05:55 AM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: chopperk
Also a fascist and a fakist.
A globalist fraud.
To: SeekAndFind
All one has to do is go through the posts when this first started, to see how easily folks can be led around by the nose and not be the least bit skeptical.
It’s evident any time sinema or Manchin buck the Dems. They do so with approval but the folks that think they somehow switched parties are numerous
Musk’s pronouns…….Prsoecute/Fauci…….NOTHING.
I guess if you still want to import your Chinese made EVs into the US, you will do what the US tells you to do.
He may be the richest guy on the planet but he’s a bitch and a puppet, nonetheless
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posted on
06/02/2023 9:33:13 AM PDT
by
qaz123
To: SeekAndFind
https://youtu.be/H2AX1l924Fk
Anyone here actually topic can listen to Michael, Knowles involved in the broadcast of the movie. Explained exactly what happened last night and this morning it would appear of the contrary to us title as usual, but the truth is four different.
Elon musk, rectify the situation and allegedly fired people
Maybe
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posted on
06/02/2023 9:41:07 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Technology is not by default an improvement )
To: SeekAndFind
Never been on Twitter. Is it better than tik tok.. oh wait..never been on tik tok. Or, watched Fox News in forever ..other than a clip..and even then not very often.
Haven’t had a bud light in decades either or been in a Target in a long time.
Oh well, guess im missing out.
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posted on
06/02/2023 9:44:32 AM PDT
by
Leep
(What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
To: NohSpinZone
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