There is a historic irony surrounding today as the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) and Elon Musk suspending the accounts of multiple journalists who violated the Twitter terms of service about publicly releasing private information without consent. To say the ‘splodey heads are epic, would be an understatement.
After several ‘mainstream’ journalists began spreading the physical location of Elon Musk, his airplane travel and his family location, Twitter began suspending all accounts that were affiliated with promoting the activity. Several high follower journalists were -by their own expressed conduct- caught up in the account suspensions, some permanently, and the resulting outrage over their claimed curtailment of speech has exploded the universal hypocrisy continuum.
Demands for reinstatement by allies of the suspended accounts stretch from threats to “haul Musk before congress,” to foreign government demands. While demanding to see the manager, CNN’s Oliver Darcy contends that Twitter cannot exist without the journalists Mr. Musk has now removed.
White knuckled fists are clutching pearls tightly.
New York – […] Speaking with anchor Jim Sciutto about several journalists, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, having been suspended under Elon Musk‘s newly minted policy about posting real-time location info, Darcy made clear that Musk is playing with fire and could get burned.
“This is raising a number of issues,” said Darcy. “Obviously it highlights how Musk doesn’t really have that commitment to free speech that he said he does. But it also raises questions about what the future of the press looks like on Twitter.” (more)
Apparently, the world will not exist without journalists being able to push their narrative engineering efforts through the social media platform.
Putting Mr. Musk’s ultimate long-term motives in a box over in the corner of the room just so that we can enjoy this moment, the billionaire space entrepreneur will never exceed today’s creation of smiles regardless of his electric cars or the eventual goal of a human population on the Martian landscape.
The insufferable meltdowns on The Twitter are worthy of a stack of screengrabs that would fill a library of congress.
WASHINGTON DC – Twitter suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists and pundits on Thursday night, prompting criticism from lawmakers and bewilderment from several of the reporters taken off the platform.
“Twitter had become the heartbeat of news and society. Banning journalists for doing their jobs is not the free speech Elon Musk promised,” journalist Tony Webster, who was permanently suspended Thursday, said in an email.
Webster, like others who found their accounts suspended, said he received no explanation of the social media platform’s decision. New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, CNN politics and technology reporter Donie O’Sullivan, Voice of America correspondent Steve Herman and commentator Keith Olbermann were among those whose accounts went dark.
Webster said he had been tweeting about @ElonJet, an account that tracks Musk’s private jet, prior to the removal. Other journalists who faced suspension had also recently tweeted critically about Musk, or had referenced the jet-tracking account — which Musk has argued endangers his personal safety. (read more)
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"Doubt you've heard but Musk banned me permanently from Twitter for NOT doing something he said WASN'T against the rules!"
"It was the baptism scene from The Godfather and Elon Muskleone"
LISTEN TO FRIDAY'S POST/SUSPENSION COUNTDOWN HERE and PLEASE RT! https://t.co/4Qp9MpgzQr pic.twitter.com/HiB8NYTKDV
— Keith Olbermann's Dogs (@TomJumboGrumbo) December 16, 2022
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Well done Mr. Musk, well done. 🙂
….” NBC News has indefinitely barred tech reporter Ben Collins from covering Elon Musk and Twitter for repeatedly mocking the mogul on the social media app, it was reported on Friday.”…..
https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/nbc-suspends-ben-collins-for-mocking-elon-musk-on-twitter/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/nbc-news-indefinitely-bars-committed-leftist-ben-collins-cheered-silencing-conservatives-covering-elon-musk-twitter/
I would like to know if the tens of millions of regular Trump supporters are allowed back on after being permanently banned years ago ? If we’re allowed back on we need to all get back on and start spreading the truth around after Twitter permanently banned truth a long time ago .
Nothing will drive leftists more insane than that .
I’m sure everyone who wants to will get re-instated eventually.
Smaller accounts will be the last back in the door, it seems.
Yes. I read something a while back that suggested the reinstatements are being done based on number of followers, putting me at the back of the line 🙂
I’ve decided I’m not going back.
I was permanently suspended on January 7, 2021. I retweeted four tweets that day. Sundance being one of them, rasmussen and Thomas Paine. I never directly said anything that day. I had over 8k in followers and have submitted 2 appeals and still not back.
Yes. Go and sign in and start trolling.
I just don’t understand how someone would question that this doxxing behavior is dangerous, cruel and malicious. Im sure they would if it were done to them, or someone they cared about. And that line about journalists “just doing their jobs” is a real hoot. Sundance is right, it must be a brain eating amoeba.
These are not journalists. They are commie-globalist activists.
Weasel Zippers… Account suspended by “Google”.
Zipps is back online this morning.
As Mike Tyson says, “everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”.
These “so-called journalists” have crossed many boundaries of late and having their privileges removed or suspended is the only way to reign them in. (Not to mention protecting those they target and their families).
Even more than the suspensions I enjoyed the public polls on Twitter regarding the length of the suspension.
Hard for those who express outrage for journalists when these polls reflect the suspension alone may not be enough.
That saddy sad, doe-eyed look on Olberman’s face alone is worth the price of admission. Bwahahahaha!
I enjoyed the wailing and gnashing of teeth of these hypocrites with a healthy serving of my favorite adult beverage, Larceny. It was truly excellent reading to end the day’s activities.
It is absolutely amazing to watch these frickin hypocrites cry, moan and threaten after what they have been doing to us…comes home to roost(as someone we know said famously in a church one day). They don’t like being treated the same…but actually justifiably. You saw how Lorenz reacted when she was outed. What if they were doxed? Haha!
We don’t need Twitter except for what is happening, the exposure of how it was used against us! We have TRUTH SOCIAL! Where TRUTH reigns! And other than a troll or two, no need to worry about them being there cause they cant stand the truth, The name or the man it stands for! MAGA!
Poor journalist wana beees, Elon is messing with your content provider like taking a hammer from a carpenter. The fools are clueless on how to really report anything.
Bolsheviks. Period. Know it. Fight it. They are hate consumed bullies, and have been allowed to run amok too long.
Watching Keith Olbermann melt down using his dogs account made my sides hurt.
Reports coming out early this Saturday morning claim most of the media suspensions were temporary; and many accounts are being reinstated already. Too bad but at least he got their attention. They should have been banned for 90 days, or at least month. Now would be a good time to reinstate alternate news giant Alex Jones who was banned
because he was exposing the demon Democrats covert globalist agenda.
Why is it that people find value in using social media? It has never been more clear that social media is a tool designed to spy, gather personal info, sell personal info, and many other nefarious uses that provide nothing positive for the average individual.
Think about this. What if Twitter and Facebook, have been created by the CIA as a vehicle to infiltrate your electronic devices, gather all of your communications and surveil all that willingly participate. The masses have signed up by the millions, they cry when they are suspended and or banned and beg to be allowed back on so that all their communication can be monitored and tracked.
Just thinking out loud.
Does Keith realize what he looks like from this side of the lens? And not in a good way?
He sure is taking a lick out of bunch of jerks. But..OMG! Deep state plant..subsidies..OMG..He is not 1000% ideologue conservatronic and cannot be trusted! OMG! C’mon peeps..enjoy the show and stop the armchair quarterback FUD mongering. Admit you were emotionally incontinent and that this is not an extension of Jacks’ Magic Coffee Shop. The second richest guy in the world is homeless and stays at rotating friends bedrooms because he is taking on the radical left with meme warfare right in the middle of their formerly dominated battle space.. He deserves some measure of respect.
People did die when these scribes for the deep state, big pharma and the government were pushing COVID vaccines on the trusting people around the globe. So, they don’t deserve any benefit of the doubt. These are political activist hacks, and deserve to be silenced for good from public speech.
So, there *will* be a Twitter on Mars? And I was hoping to maybe get away from it all there. Next planet, perhaps.