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As the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk is, to quote, Ben Shapiro, moving fast and breaking things. He could see a big problem, as anyone outside the media feedback loop can. Twitter had become not just the propaganda arm of the State, but was being used as a filter to dodge the First Amendment, to police thought and speech.

They didn’t do it directly or overtly. They did it alongside enthusiastic “good soldiers” for the State. The users - the blue-checks - and the employees saw themselves as the #resistance. To them, banning Trump was spiking their flag at Iwo Jima. They won, or so they thought.

After the latest dump of the Twitter Files was released by Bari Weiss, showing a clear connection between the FBI and Twitter in their efforts to both suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, and to censor and ultimately ban a sitting president, it was clear that the former management of Twitter, and its former owner, were on the ropes. This was the biggest tech story in 10 years, and the media went dark. Why? They’re the dogs that aren’t barking, that’s why. They were complicit in everything that happened on Twitter because they ARE Twitter.

Without Twitter, there can be no “cancel culture.” It is their Roman coliseum, their panopticon for surveillance, and yes, it’s their Ministry of Love, their Ministry of Truth, and their Ministry of Peace. Without Twitter, they’re just a bunch of do-nothings, drunk on their own power as they pull the lever for the dopamine hit like slot machine junkies at 2 am in Vegas. Someday, all of this will be embarrassing for all concerned. ...

Those who participated in silencing dissent and the suppression of facts should start preparing now because the internet is written in ink. There will be a reckoning on those who stood by and did nothing, and the weakest among us will be called upon to explain themselves. And what will they say? That they helped get Trump banned from Twitter? That they destroyed Space-X and Tesla? I think they better come up with something much better than that.

Patrick says

What if the people of Canada want to track Elon's jet? Will they be muzzled?

Principles are principles. If somebody condones violating free speach for one reason it doesn't mean I have to
like it violated for another. Elon promised not to do that shit anymore, didnt he? WTF?

Principles are principles

AmericanKulak says

Principles are principles

“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well, I have others.”

G. Marx.

Looks like Elon may be reading up on Groucho

I'm just happy he doesn't allow child porn on the site anymore

richwicks says

I'm just happy he doesn't allow child porn on the site anymore

Anybody here personally seen any of that on twatter?

Eric Holder says

richwicks says

I'm just happy he doesn't allow child porn on the site anymore

Anybody here personally seen any of that on twatter?

That's now how it worked, as I understand it. Basically Twitter was being used to allow groups to form through various hashtags.

And? Did or did they not post the stuff?

Yoel Roth is almost certainly a pedophile, certainly a fucking asshole.

richwicks says

Yoel Roth is almost certainly a pedophile, certainly a fucking asshole.

Yes, no doubt his asshole has been fucked many times.

HeadSet says

richwicks says

Yoel Roth is almost certainly a pedophile, certainly a fucking asshole.

Yes, no doubt his asshole has been fucked many times.

I suspect his career is at an end. The dirt that is going to be uncovered on that motherfucker I think is just beginning.

No doubt he is scum. But before anyone glories in his downfall, this echos the hysteria of cancel culture. He is a scapegoat drawing attention away from the FBI’s fake law enforcement and election meddling the the Biden crime family’s crimes.

Sure, let him be a janitor, but let’s prosecute the real criminals, he is just a scapegoat.

That is xACTLy my point. Who cares about this loser when we have a criminal running the government.