Posted on 12/17/2022 8:16:59 AM PST by lasereye
Two years after Twitter banned an entire newspaper, media figures are losing their minds over their accounts being zapped.
Welcome to the party!
Elon Musk stunned social media users late Thursday by suspending the accounts of about half a dozen reporters and pundits who showed how to track the location of his private jet, but the billionaire’s critics are facing accusations of hypocrisy as well.
Musk’s abrupt pivot from free speech champion to censor elicited shrieking condemnation from political figures who ignored previous Twitter management’s 2020 censorship of The Post for reporting on documents from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“I get feeling unsafe, but descending into abuse of power + erratically banning journalists only increases the intensity around you. Take a beat and lay off the proto-fascism,” wrote Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), addressing Musk
Other past cheerleaders for censorship, such as House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined the pile-on, with Schiff writing, “The devotion to free speech is apparently not that absolute. But the hypocrisy is.”
Schiff notoriously and falsely called The Post “a newspaper promoting Kremlin propaganda” when a cabal of Twitter executives censored accurate reporting on the now-president’s son, citing a dubious “hacked materials” concern.
Musk claimed that posts about his jet’s location threatened his family’s safety and violated his brand-new rule banning the sharing of a person’s real-time location information.
The 51-year-old father of 10, until recently the world’s richest man, said a “crazy stalker” on Tuesday “climbed” atop a car carrying his 2-year-old son in Los Angeles. He used the alleged incident to justify the removal of the two-year-old account @elonjet that automatically tracked his plane, despite Musk saying he’d leave the page up after trying and failing to pay the page’s creator, a 19-year-old University of Central Florida student, to delete it.
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He was trying to get their attention...now they know they better be careful.
Hypocrisy is THE defining characteristic of the left.
Musk has 10 kids???? I thought it was around 6...
Sure didn’t bother the left to dox the Supreme Court justices. There was no outcry when they did that.
I’m disappointed Musk didn’t permanently ban them. Liberals only learned that he’d back down if they scream loud enough.
“Free speech” — to the liberals — has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.
If they don’t like it, they can start their own Twitter.
The MSM’s lack of any semblance of self-awareness is stunning.
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Yep. His style might have something to do with why he’s the richest man in the history of the world.
He didn’t say cancelled.
IF I was in his same position-—those punks would be very lucky I ONLY suspended their Twitter accounts & didn’t suspend their breathing.
And those are their better points.
There may be one group the leftists hate more the white male conservatives..and that’s intentionally honest liberals.
It ia only about special priviledge with these horrible leftists.
I like that Musk told them that they are not different or more privileged than other people, if they dox someone and their family and put them in danger.
The lefty media does this regularly. Dox the real time location of one of their political opponents and publish it for for their loony followers.
The fanatic lefty reporters and their media friends tried the "I-dindoo-nuffin" defence". However Musk also told his 100 million+ followers exactly why they were suspended. So no way for them to lie without looking like idiots.
These liberal journalists didn't seem to think that taking away the right of everyday people to publish was a problem, but banning a few of them now is?
-PJ
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