Perhaps no media paragraph more perfectly encapsulates the issues around the Twitter debate than this one from New York Times writer Shira Ovide:
…”The 2016 U.S. presidential election and the Brexit vote that same year gave Silicon Valley executives, U.S. elected officials and the public a peek into what can go wrong when social media companies opt not to wade too deeply into what people say on their sites.”… (link)
In essence, that would be the quiet part said out loud and matter-of-factly. If people are allowed freedom of communication, they end up doing things without our approval.
That paragraph perfectly encapsulates the reason why so many media and leftists are having mental breakdowns.
Elon Musk has the audacity to purchase one, just one, social media platform with the intent to allow Americans the freedom to speak to each other freely, without limit and control. That is the expressed risk the Democrats, media and leftists in every institution are enraged about.
As Fox News highlighted, “several Twitter employees expressed serious concerns and fear over Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company including a prominent worry that Musk would undo censorship mechanisms they had worked to implement over the years.” It’s all about control. We are living in a cyber version of Poland circa early 1980’s.
The solidarity movement results in millions of Polish citizens taking to the streets, looking around and suddenly realizing there are more of us than them. That is what the collective left is now desperate to avoid, and they will do anything to stop people from seeing the scope of the control effort they have deployed in order to carry out their agenda. Those are the stakes at play.
During yesterday’s phone call between Twitter executives and employees at the company, the leaders within the company talked about the issues at hand. A leaked copy a short segment of the discussion was made available by Project Veritas today. WATCH:
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All of this collective apoplexy and anxiety is a reflection of fear. The need for control is a reaction to deep internal fear.
Notice they keep using the words “safety”, as if being exposed to alternate perspectives is something that threatens safety.
Elon Musk is correct, “the extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.”
(Source)
I can only imagine what “years of censorship mechanisms” means inside the technology systems created by the Twitter regulators.
This gets more interesting by the day….
Sundance;
‘The solidarity movement results in millions of Polish citizens taking to the streets, looking around and suddenly realizing there are more of us than them. That is what the collective left is now desperate to avoid, and they will do anything to stop people from seeing the scope of the control effort they have deployed in order to carry out their agenda. Those are the stakes at play.”
a very useful and illustrative analogy
Our commonality is their demise. That simple.
….and all done by the Polish people with no Twitter, and no, for the most part, internet….
They got help from the US with copy machines and fax machines to help spread the word and set up meetings. I was there in 1989 and worked with many of the people who were imprisoned by the communists and assisted with the first free election won by Lech Walesa. Pope John Paul II was also a great help to the Polish people during these times.
As Jim Morrison once sang, “They got the guns, but… we got the numbers.”
I hate twits! This leaked audio tells us everything the left wants – moderation is another word for “CONTROL!”
It always was. I grew to loath the punks at Red State who moderated, not only the words, but the content as well. Erick Erickson was their so called ‘conservative’ leader – the guy who included every kind of RINO but banned Trump from his boat ride in 2016.
He earned the moniker, The Sweaty Thumb, from BigFurHat.
At this point, I don’t really care what Musk does with Twitter. But the apoplectic reaction from the left on what MIGHT happen, has been worth the cost of admission.
FYI, an account I had that was banned during the 2016 campaign is suddenly active again. Go figure.
Some of the Twit-thug moderators may be hoping to protect their jobs … and as such are relaxing the banning protocols. When Elon arrives for his first day in the office, these snowflakes will say “See? We aren’t censoring anyone. Can we please have another paycheck, boss.”
Health?
I think one would have to be flying into the bat belfry of the progressive castle to fathom what health has to do with twatter.
Of course the corrupt Media fear that they will be the next to be gelded.
Hopefully Musk has a better Secret Service than JFK.
Twitter’s Top Lawyer Breaks Down In Tears During Musk Takeover Meeting
APR 27, 2022
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitters-top-lawyer-breaks-down-tears-during-musk-takeover-meeting
Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, reportedly broke down in tears during a virtual meeting with the company’s policy and legal teams to discuss the ramifications of Elon Musk’s purchase of the social media platform.
According to Politico, “Gadde cried during the meeting as she expressed concerns about how the company could change,” and “acknowledged that there are significant uncertainties about what the company will look like under Musk’s leadership.”
Having been with Twitter since 2011, Gadde was the key executive in charge of ‘trust and safety, legal and public policy functions’ – described by Politico as the company’s “moral authority.”
Gadde holds one of the most controversial positions at Twitter: Her teams decide how to moderate content. That’s made her a target of right-wing criticism, particularly when Twitter blocked the distribution of a New York Post article about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in 2020. She faced a renewed wave of criticism after multiple reports confirmed she was behind the decision to ban Trump from Twitter. -Politico
In other words, Gadde is likely the exec who signed off on ZeroHedge’s February 2020 ban for speculating that Covid-19 may have emerged from a Wuhan Lab, and President Trump’s January 2021 ban in connection with the capitol riot.
Gadde is one particularly putrid fascist female. Reminds one of Psaki, who also cried about the FL legislation that prohibited the perverts’ program of identity indoctrination in K-3rd grade. Their usual mode is a tough, authoritarian, terror inducing concentration camp commandant profile, but when boxed, they resort to the tears as another way of getting what they want i.e. the sympathy appeal. One can hardly imagine a man, at least one who considers himself a man, resorting to tears when cornered. Think of the power this one wielded (censorship) with much relish, and absolute disdain for the victim.
I am pretty sure she will be getting her last Twitter paycheck, along with the CEO and some others, very soon. I hope that the government requests for Twitter to suppress and/or censor various topics and personalities is laid bare, along with the manipulations that were made via algorithm or manually. Shoild some Pretty good first amendment cases with Twitter actively colluding with the Biden Admin to shape the content and context of discussions.
I suspect that she feels that SHE is the victim, they all do. Therefore, every effort to fend off the “attacks” from the bad guys, is justifiable, in their sick , perverted minds.
Get yer resume together Vijayah, Im sure there’s a place for you with Perkins-Coie.
Maybe she can code.
God ✝️ Bless Elon Musk
The truth shall set us all
FREE
They say the pendulum swings back the other way just as far. We got a long ways to go!
I really don’t care if all these nuts want to live as they do, I wish them all salvation not damnation. But, I would like to see Gods word taught to every person in public schools as mandatory, every year until graduation. Read aloud, understand the principles, taken as far as a twelfth grade education can. Then let them make the decisions to transgender, or lgbt if that’s their wish, abortions, pot.
And taught as instruction for life not as constraints of laws. Religion has high jacked what Jesus taught.
I suspect the left would pull their kids out of school:number one. Number two: they would vanish rather quickly from society. All that tolerance would quickly become transparent as they are.
But then, I believe God can solve any problem once entered in to the issue.
Meh … maybe. I hope you are right but I’m not sure this is a god nor what god might be – so teaching god’s word’s??
There was a time when God had one definition. Not now. Whose “god” would be taught? I prefer that families teach their beliefs, not schools.
Musk is playing his cards close to the vest. Glenn Greenwald warns that Musk, given his prior relationships with Wall Street, the Deep state and China, should be assessed a bit more cautiously than he currently is. His version of ‘free speech’ has yet to be actually seen. We can hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst. It should be remembered that Twitter attained its great value, not by being a marketplace of free speech, but by censoring some speech while promoting other speech. Will Musk keep on the architects who created that format? Could it increase in value by censoring in favor of conservative speech?
Don’t forget Elon is one of the greatest recipients of corporate welfare to ever exist. His history is one of working with governments not opposing them, whether here or in China. Perhaps the deep state will try and destroy him, but isn’t it more likely that the two sides will find mutually beneficial arrangements.
These degenerates were sold on the idea that they can control and create the social narrative. Musk is going to take this power away from them so they will have to swim in the public arena only if they can defend themselves; there will be no crazy Twitter for them to hide behind. No Twitter to hide them behind their false reality or worse, their fascistic mechanism is going to be eliminated, leaving them naked to the world .WOW, how great it is for free speech and how terrible it is for those who cut our tongue out – temporarily. Thanks Elon Musk.
Such liberty for all is a threat to the control over all wielded by a few.
It should alarm all of us how successful public (government) education has been in indoctrinating the youth to embrace totalitarianism to the point that they exhibit such an absurd level of cognitive dissonance, deeming truly free speech a grave threat to democracy.
Twitter grew to its present size not out of moderation, but out of freedom. How can they not see that. Before Musk, Twitter was doing a great disservice not only to the public, but to the shareholders who expect dividends and growth.
Wow, thank you for this perspective!
Freedom and all of its ingredients is a very hard nut to crack. You got to really work for it, all the time.
Mr Musk is saying the same thing the Supremes said when they struck down the CDC mandates. If you want to do this, pass legislation. The democommies can’t pass the legislation so they’re installing communism through mandates and social media. The mandates are gone, their last hope for 2022 is to manipulate the message like they did in 2020. In the US if there is free speech and a voting system that isn’t compromised, the democommies have no chance, and they know it.
Twitter Dictionary: the term ‘Freedom of Speech’ is what Twitter says it is, not what it really mean!
With Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and taking it to be a private company, we truly hope that free speech and the open discussion of different opinions may improve in America. No longer the censorship, mainly to bring the entire public to the Left’s mindset. Because when a people have no public voice, as Twitter imposed on all of us, including President Donald Trump, their Fascistic leaning has the biggest platform to control all voices, which ends all public participation in governance.
These degenerates at Twitter were sold on the idea that they can control and create the social narrative. Elon Musk is going to take this power away from them so they will have to swim in the public arena only if they can defend themselves and their behavior; there will be no crazy Twitter for them to hide behind. No Twitter to hide them behind their false reality or worse, their fascistic mechanism is going to be eliminated, leaving them naked to the world. WOW! How great it is for free speech and how terrible it is for those who cut our speaking tongue out – temporarily. Thanks to Elon Musk.
The big shots at Twitter are in panic mode because their little totalitarian platform is about to go through a “De-Nazification” process. Yes, Nazi, because the blend of Collectivist Social System ideology and Corporate and Elitist Control of the social and economic system is what Nazism was about, it is also called fascism! Nazism results is a system where the ‘elite’ are protected from the non-elite (working folks) by the power of the state. In short, a modern version of Feudalism. Today instead of Land Ownership being the criteria for being part of the ‘ruling class’, it is the ‘corporate class’ and the embedded ‘deep state government bureaucrats’ who make up the new whet they have positioned themselves as the ‘ruling class’. And the wage slaves and others outside the ‘ruling class’ remain the modern version of the peasants. As our society continues to solidify around these two social roles, social advancement becomes ever more restrictive. You are born into one – nepotism – or the other of these two social classes and social mobility, a hallmark of the former American system which is rapidly declining.
“Safety” seems to be a code word for “blocking conservative voices” that everybody understand within the company.
The EU apparently is outraged. A Thierry Breton, styled as Commissioner for the Internal Market, warns Musk that the EU has just passed a law, Digital Services Act, that requires EU Commission-approved censorship. It’a all about protecting “our democracy” and “norms”.
Truth social should be Trmpet as Elon suggested
“If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect”
Well, in our case it would take a constitutional amendment.
https://rumble.com/v12j50n-twitter-employees-the-day-after-elon-takes-over.html
There’s a part in this where a guy demands censorship. The response was something like “shut the F up!” That’s censorship.
https://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-karaoke/nutty-cuz-musk-rocking-prog-world-t22809.html
Samizdat.
While I couldn’t care less about twitter and most of the social media nonsense, you cannot have it both ways. There are two kinds of censorship…shutting off the personal attacks and garbage talking, which is fine and shutting down any opinion that detracts from or questions a specified agenda or mantra, which is not.
We are talking about using words to convey thoughts and ideas and often words mean several different things to different people. How you sort that out is often determined by a strict policy which leaves little wiggle room. Cross the line, even though your intention is otherwise, and you are deleted or expunged.
With all the billions of opinions expressed on social media in any given day, what is the end result and what is accomplished? I really don’t know.
They are panicked because the source code will show the tools behind the curtain … and they can’t change it fast enough to hide what they coded … would love to be on that reverse engineering team that gets to peel back the functionality and see how they did it … especially things like shadow banning which they have never admitted they do … it’s in the code …