Posted on 07/12/2024 7:39:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have been waiting for quite a while to see the war between Elon Musk and the European Union break out into the open.
Ever since Elon bought Twitter the Establishment has been panicked by their loss of control over the Narrative™, and they have been making noises about pushing Twitter/X out of Europe or imposing fines if Musk doesn't shut down free speech on his platform.
The Elite have been waging an open financial war on the platform, driving advertisers away and trying (and failing) to come up with competitors that will drive Twitter/X out of the market. The financial hits have been very real; the competitors all have been total flops.
“blocks access to data to researchers”
They’re NOT researchers. They’re censorship activities & political operatives. This has been their plan the whole time — to use the DSA to force X to restaff the censorship squad fired when Elon took over. https://t.co/cyp8ZmpcOQ— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 12, 2024
Today the E.U. dropped a bombshell on Elon, declaring that they have concluded that Twitter "deceives users," whatever that means, and violates the Digital Services Act. The second is true, the first ridiculous on its face, given that the claim is based on changing the meaning of the "Blue check."
Everybody knows what the blue check means.
We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth https://t.co/nKBGEPxeEa— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
It IS true that Twitter's current version violates the Digital Services Act, arguably, because the Digital Services Act is nothing but a censorship regime intended to shut down any speech that doesn't parrot exactly what the Davos Elites want out there. That isn't even an exaggeration; that is what it is intended to do.
If George Orwell wanted to write a law to make 2024 look like 1984, the DSA would be a great first start. It is, I say unironically, evil.
Europe is secretly redefining democracy and free speech. pic.twitter.com/KS5jAvsZP9— Damon Imani (@damonimani) July 12, 2024
Elon clearly wants this fight, and he took his first shot back at the E.U. by revealing that they offered him and the other social media platforms a deal: comply with our censorship demands and we will help you deceive your users. He accuses the other social media platforms of taking the deal, and I believe him. Nobody is taking any shots at them because they have knuckled under.
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not. https://t.co/4lKsaRsYoA— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
The European Union isn't just doing it for their own Elites--they are collaborating with US policymakers, the intelligence "community," the MSM, and the censorship industrial complex to do their dirty work because there are limits placed on what government can do due to the First Amendment.
Europe will censor when the US is limited to.
It is corrupt, tyrannical, election interference, and violates the basic rights of speech and conscience of all people, especially Americans, and I honestly believe that if there is a God in Heaven these people will never see him face to face. They will be meeting a demon instead.
This is the most important front in the cultural and political battles we are fighting, because every other battle is tied to control over the information sphere.
Control over information is how the elites get away with all the hoaxes they put on people. It is how they whip up the hysteria about any issue they feel the need to. It is how the pandemic measures were used to transfer trillions of dollars from the poor and middle classes to the big corporations. It is how they censored campaign information, pushed the Russia hoax, suppressed the Biden laptop, convinced people that 2020 was "the most secure election in history," and kept the truth about Biden's brain hidden for years.
I spend a lot of time on Twitter/X and I can tell you one thing for sure: even with all the crap, conspiracy theories, vitriol, and everything else on there that can make it unpleasant, you see more reality there than anywhere in the media. I can't tell you how many things I see two, three, or even 5 days earlier on Twitter than in the MSM, and many stories that never make it there.
Exactly, the legacy media is literally yesterday’s news https://t.co/HH6hmWiAbT— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
This has been my experience. Twitter breaks the mainstream media monopoly. It isn't perfect. Not by a long shot. But it is invaluable.
I always wonder about censorship in the West. I remember during the Cold War, the only censorship was on the Soviet side, and it was intended to keep their people from learning the truth about what was going on in their countries and around the world as that would make them want to overthrow their governments.
Never mind, I think that I just stated the reason that Europe needs to censor (along with Canada and soon the US).
Musk watching is Really Fun!
The state run U.S. media censors everything.
About what I’d expect from our Euroboob friends. And by friends I mean contemptible pigs.
The state run U.S. media censors everything.“
The left has a death grip on US Media. I wish Elon had found a way to buy just one of the networks. Within two weeks it would dominate and millions would see the truth for the first time.
Yep, even fox is unwatchable.
“I honestly believe that if there is a God in Heaven these people will never see him face to face. They will be meeting a demon instead.”
I want them to see Him. I want to see the look on their faces when He tells them they got to go the other way.
From 7 PM central to midnight, Fox news is very watchable. pro-Trump all the way. Same with the Five, except for their single democrat on the panel. And Maria Bartiromo is very pro-Trump.
This is a very hopeful story. Elon is showing Trumpian virtues. He may have been born in South Africa, but he’s a red-white-and-blue American patriot now.
Nothing is more important to our future than to break the stranglehold the MSM and tech companies have on “managing” the authorized truth” as George Orwell predicted.
I’ll add too that Elon’s satellite empire will increasingly be in a position to selectively bypass local and international (terrestrial) data centers to deliver the internet to homes from pizza-box sized satellites in low earth orbit about 300 miles above us that burn out in the atmosphere after a few years of service.
So this is the future of internet delivery. It may give us a way to protect our freedom of information and truth.
Like Trump, Musk can’t be bought...it’s why I went back to Twitter (X) once he bought it.
You're right pundit. And you're right about Elon too.
His free speech fight will end up being Musk’s greatest legacy.
... that you were aware of. There was plenty of censorship and propaganda originating in the west, but it is kinda like the fish not noticing the water he swims in.
I agree, but nothing close to what we have now. For example, when Carter messed up things with Iran, Ted Koppel was on the air EVERY NIGHT talking about it.
But even given that example, I can still remember one specific example of HUGE TIME censorship, which would have made the 1980 election even MORE of a blowout.
local and international (terrestrial) data centers
There’s a video floating around, concerning the water issue in Idaho. Guy it says that the mining company had been there for a while and not successful, so the DOD investment didn’t make sense to him. But, a Facebook data center, needing over 2 million gallons of water a day, being built there and sucking up all that water does make sense.
Right, there’s one of those centers going up in Newton County, Ga. I guess the people of Newton County will soon learn about any secret deals Kemp and the rest made for 200 jobs filled by bona fide liberals.
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