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https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-free-speech-twitter-psyop
The "Free-Speech Twitter" PSYOP
@elonmusk
My concern was more the outrageous demand that people must take the vaccine and multiple boosters to do anything at all. That was messed up.
Until the Supreme Court invalidated Biden’s exec order, SpaceX and many other companies would have been forced to fire anyone who refused to get vaccinated!
We would not have done so. I would rather go to prison than fire good people who didn’t want to be jabbed.
As for myself, I got original Covid before the vaccine was out (mild cold symptoms) and had to get three vaccines for travel. The third shot almost sent me to hospital.
How many other people out there have symptoms that are actually from the vaccine or Covid treatment, rather than Covid itself?
As for those who didn’t take any vaccine, well @DjokerNole just won a record number of grand slams …
It’s not like I don’t believe in vaccines – I do. However, the cure cannot be potentially worse than the disease. And public debate over efficacy should not be shut down.
There is also great potential for curing many diseases using synthetic mRNA, so let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water.
7:47 AM · Sep 26, 2023
Lol, "Community Notes", working as intended.
I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2023
I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia https://t.co/wxoHQdRICy— Elon Musk (elonmusk) October 22, 2023
For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better. It's got to be the single greatest development in the ability of the informed to use social media to police the information gatekeepers. ...
For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-debuts-rebellious-grok-015320778.html
Elon Musk Debuts ‘Rebellious’ Grok AI Bot to Challenge ChatGPT
I'm guessing that this new chat isn't a flaming liberal either.
For the uninitiated, since Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, "Community Notes" is the feature that permits users to tag intentionally omitted context onto another user's post. In other words, when a so-called "professional" journalist attempts to advance a narrative by intentionally spreading misinformation, they can now be rightfully humiliated by informed citizens who know better. It's got to be the single greatest development in the ability of the informed to use social media to police the information gatekeepers. ...
After a fiery back-and-forth, in which Musk, perhaps recklessly, vowed he’d rather Twitter go bankrupt than kowtow to advertisers’ political preferences, Musk said something very profound. At one point, the conversation wandered to Tesla, because Elon was noting how Tesla captured the electric car market without advertising. Then Elon boasted — fairly — that as Tesla’s CEO, he has arguably done more “for the climate” than any other individual on Earth.
Sorkin, smelling fresh meat, immediately prompted Elon: how did he feel about being that one individual. But Elon took it in a different direction, replying by saying he doesn’t care; since he’s using an internal yardstick, he doesn’t care about how other people perceive what he’s doing. And then Elon drove a militarized bulldozer directly through woke virtue signaling:
“What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good, while doing evil. F— them."
Sorkin immediately recognized he’d overplayed his hand, that something significant had just happened, and he wasn’t sure exactly what to do about it. For a second the skilled interviewer was uncharacteristically speechless. He then adroitly changed the subject and none of the press about the interview has mentioned that quote.
But what Musk said pierced the heart of everything that is wrong with the world right now. The elites have inverted traditional ethics; they call good “evil,” and they call evil “good.” The perception of goodness is more highly valued by elites than is actually doing good. People used to be mocked for empty virtue signaling, but somehow now even obviously fake virtue signaling — not product quality — is required to keep a corporation financially viable. That’s how Bud Light wound up putting a mentally-ill, unattractive cross-dresser on its brand label.
The answer is simple: We need to get back to valuing doing good more than seeming good. Musk was right.
Time To Boycott Elon's Boycotters
It was about four years ago that ZeroHedge went through ad monetization hell, having lost most of our advertisers because they did not approve of the content on this website and as a result they - together with such members of the Censorship Industrial Complex such as Newsguard, Sleeping Giants and CheckMyAds and various three letter US government agencies - did everything in their power to kill the site by starving it of ad revenue...
Fast forward to today, when Elon Musk is going through the same hell, as a growing group of companies are trying to do to X/Twitter what they tried to do to us by targeting the social media network and trying to starve it of ad revenue (their stated trigger of responding to the Media Matters fake news "report" was just a red herring: if it hadn't been for Media Matters, they would have found some other point of "virtue" to rally around, and pull their ads).
Of course, there is one key difference: Elon is the world's richest man, and if Twitter does not generate even one additional dollar of revenue, Elon will still be a multi-billionaire, and X can continue to operate for a long, long time if not in perpetuity (if costs are trimmed enough). It's also why Elon yesterday had some choice words for those advertisers who had halted advertising, telling them "go fuck yourself" (with a shout out to Disney chief Bob Iger) if they think they can blackmail Musk... which is precisely what ad demonetization is: a not so subtle way of pushing content and editorial direction in exchange for a monthly stipend.
Here, a brief tangent: for the most part, advertising spending is rarely about actual "advertising" and instead it is about endorsing, encouraging and funding certain ideologies and party lines which corporations agree with, encourage and seek to make default. It is about influencing the content decisions and editorial slant by implicitly threatening that the ad money can disappear at a moment's notice if something is published the company disagrees with. It's why when Pfizer or Moderna spend tens of millions for advertising in the NYT it is not so people are aware that Pfizer makes a covid booster shot - they know that from non-stop news coverage; it is to make sure that the NYT never questions the corporate party line. In other words, it is public relations in an advertising wrapper. Add to this lobby spending and political donations by those same corporations, and you have a fusion of the corporate, political and media branches, all superglued together with lots of money (and in the case of Pfizer and Moderna, it's taxpayer money) something which in simpler times has been called fascism. Glenn Greenwald recaps this dynamic in the clip below...
As a result, ad companies have unlimited leverage when it comes to dealing with most media companies... except one: X, which as noted above, is controlled by the world's richest man, and thus advertiser leverage in this particular case is virtually non-existent. It's also why instead of pretending they can influence the narrative (and force X to pursue the same censorship as were implemented by the former management team of its predecessor, Twitter) they are simply pulling away and hoping to crush this bastion of free speech, the same way they did to us. ...
Which is why it is time to boycott the boycotters: below we have summarized the names of those companies which have publicly signaled their "virtue" by pulling their ads from X/Musk.
Disney
CNBC/NBC parent Comcast
Warner Brothers
Discovery
Apple
Sony
Lions Gate
Paramount
IBM
Paris Hilton
We are confident there are many more companies that have also pulled their influence "ad" dollars, and we will update the list as more become public. These are the companies that Musk told to "go fuck yourselves" because, well, he can afford to. And while ordinary Americans have far less recourse and don't have nearly enough "fuck you money" as Elon, they have the ability to chose who gets their money instead, and the only way to retaliate to the Musk boycott is by boycotting the boycotters themselves, and stop spending money on products like Disney streaming services, or getting every new iPhone or buying whatever it is that Paris Hilton is selling.
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