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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“...commentator Keith Olbermann...”
WORST human bean EVER!
Musk is doxxed in real time & his son is stalked by a black block leftist the MSM basic either spiked the story or had the attitude of good for the stalker !
intellectually honest liberals that is. ugh!
After going through the rigamarole of suspensions, then going through the circus of a poll, then reinstating them, he should have saved himself time, and just sent them a strongly worded letter like Republicans always do.
Can anyone translate this from idiotspeak to english?
Exactly. He showed his weakness. He took the chicken way out, giving the people on Twitter the responsibility of making his decision for him. I think there are more liberals on Twitter because they are needy by nature, and use the site to complain and whine about everything. They've had that platform to themselves for a very long time because they were allowed to get away with murder on the site. Musk has just shown them, that they can continue to get away with murder.
We’ll see if there’s an effect. They’ve now been warned, big time.
Exactly, citizen publicists and “crying”=speechifyin’ in the public square
Thanks. For a minute, I thought it was just me.
MSM covered the ‘unprovoked bannings’ but has said nothing about the FBI Twitter Files - with the exception of Fox.
I go to Drudge perhaps once every month or two as it is a good gauge of “The Narrative” now - what story the Deep State is pushing at the moment.
EVERY lead story yesterday was bashing Musk.
Of course, nothing about the FBI manipulating social media during elections within our own country to pick the winners.
OMG how will the MSM spread Klaus Schwab’s propaganda now
Nailed it.
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