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….
Google is doubling down immediately on the censorship algorithm in response …
all internet related providers need to be submitted.
the ability of them to HIDE what information they are obtaining from you and your family is beyond Evil.
they dont just get the login provided data you do – they get everything that device simply by you touching their platform 1 single time.
it allows them to compartmentalize different peoples “experiences’ on the internet
https://www.pcworld.com/article/536627/virtualization_guide.html
I can go into a store, make a purchase w/my credit card, and when I get home there are ads and information on the item I purchased. I did not use the internet to research the item prior to purchase. They KNOW everything.
I have a friend that said she and her husband were at the kitchen table discussing a product to buy, and ads started popping up on the computer, and they don’t have an Alexa or other type gadget in their home.
This has happened to my wife and I. It wasn’t coincidental, no internet search, an obscure product, not an everyday item.
your credit card is silo’d to your name, you home computer is silo’d to your name.
so those two paths cross and they can snipe us in either lane.
I’ve noticed this as well, for about a year now. I told my kids and they thought I am nuts, but it was happening too often to be coincidence
Likely they have a TV capable of using Alexa. There is no need to have Alexa installed for such TV’s to pick up your voice so someone, somewhere can listen in. Computers also have microphones and I am told there is malware that can be used to monitor conversations.
The malware looks for key words and phrases such as,” I am thinking of buying” or “We have to get a new” etc. before flagging the entire conversation to the attention of the person in charge of monitoring. Sentences such as, “feed the dogs” are ignored although you might receive some dog food offers and advertisements.
That happened to me with my cell phone. I had it in my back pocket, not using it at that moment, and having a conversation with my workmates. Later, I looked at it and found a prioritized search result for the song we were talking about.
I also heard on a podcast that Microsoft word is gonna auto correct certain words or phrases to be more “woke” and politically correct. So while typing a report on word all these crazy autofill sentences will happen.
Ahh yes… the “We’re gonna hafta get back to you on that” response… that came to prominence during the “Mass Formation Psychosis” episode… Google is such a piece of crap…
Watching the leftists all over the world, meltdown, over a free speech advocate doing what he thinks is right, is GLORIOUS!!
I drink to their tears!
Go Elon!
( I still refuse to join that place, but heck, Ill take the win!)
Agreed, the crying jags must be MAGNIFICENT to behold.
I bet the Xanax dealers phone is ringing off the hook.
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. 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 Jan6 capitol events.
From ZeroHedge ~ As a reminder, [THIS LITTLE DICTATOR] Gadde is crying because her new boss is a ‘free speech absolutist,’ while she wants to silence divergent opinions from her own.
Vijaya Gadde is/was this freak’s main attorney.
Born in India, estimated net worth over $60 million.
Too many foreigners appear to be censoring the speech of Americans in the USA.
Exactly my thought! Remember that all started with the lie that “multiculturalism is our strength” another progressive lie from the pit of hell.
Kevin McCarthy asked Liz Chaney to have Twitter censor and ban more Republicans in addition to President Trump according to Tucker Carlson tonight!
Brenrod: And voting, sitting on juries, and holding public office, often without having a clue about the historical, philosophical and ideological underpinnings of U.S. law and governance. Our educational system does nothing about this situation, and immigrants can vote in upwards of 15 or more native languages, without understanding a word of English.
Once citizenship is granted there should be a five year waiting period before voting and anyone on public assistance (welfare) for more than one year should not be allowed to vote. Almost 50% of Americans do not pay federal taxes. Why should anyone on perpetual welfare be able to vote for politicians who promise more welfare $$$ for them and more taxes for us?
Elon needs to learn from Trump’s mistake of not firing people in his new admin. Musk needs to do the same, fire them all and bring in his own people.
Pretty sure he had a list before his first offer.
Make them all reapply for their jobs. Many probably won’t bother.
As Posobiec pointed out on Bannon earlier today… Musk not only bought Twitter… he bought all of Twitter’s internal emails, documents, and memos as a little bonus… you’d be crying too, methinks…
Yet another controlling Indian who does not believe in free speech.
Caste bigotry is the norm. That is her culture.
Deport her to North Korea….
Have a Twit account. Never used it. But it’s very tempting to do so, just to troll all the snowflakes.
Use it to calmly give them evidence to the contrary for whatever BS they are spewing.
I’m not on twit, but I really wish that non-Lefties who are, would use it to educate these people.
Yeah, most will ignore what you present, but there are some that won’t. And they *count*.
I just might finally consider a Twitter account, but am seriously looking forward to have access to Truth Social soon.
When Parag referenced providing a “safe place” for people I had to chuckle. Made me wonder how many Tweeter workers as well as posters still wear safety pins.
How dangerous can a place that hosts “comments and opinions” be?
Just another reason NOT to be a part of that abortion of free speech.
It remains to be seen but It appears Elon did the world a solid. Capitalism 101 for all to see.
If Twitter was actually a business trying to make money, they would never have done any of this censoring, banning, shadow banning, etc….It’s been an arm of the Deep State…
Exactly 💯 💯
It will be interesting to see the deep state accidentally expose themselves. And not in the Jeffrey Tobin way
i’d be worried if i was a censorship employee and I got outted for knowing what was going on, and still doing it.
All this finally made me realize why the terrorists sent 3 planes on 9/11.
Because if it was one or two, it’d have been memory holed like the Vegas shooting.
World Trade
World Trade
Schwenksville
Pentagon
4 planes, but do agree on Vegas
There was obscure evidence in the 9/11 Report (book) that they planned much more that those 4 takeovers and had people onboard numerous flights that Tuesday morning. Quick thinking by ATCs to ground ALL commercial aircraft at once thwarted their plans.
But the reality of 2016 and 2020 is that for all their supposed “control” (FB and Twitter) the majority of votes were for Trump – and it wasn’t even close both times.
The left still had to cheat to win in 2020.
And I believe the number of anti left voters have only increased since 2020.
Don’t give these media clowns and social media twits too much credit
In the past 122 years what regimes censored:
Communists: USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, CCP China, Vietnam, DDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, etc.
Fascists/Nazis – The Third Reich, Imperial Japan, Mussolini’s Italy, Phalangist Spain, etc
Muslim Countries – all 57 of them
“Hey, Democrats, do you realize the company you are keeping on a historical basis?”
Actually, many DO realize the historical company they keep.
A huge number of dems admire and are jealous of that company’s accomplishments and have desired to do much the same here.
Given the opportunity.
To the point that several have openly praised communist China.
The stinking UN praises communist China.
And when Elon’s people get a hold of that code? As Sundance just said at the end…..
Imagine the code that these extreme far leftists have made up.
All of the lies will be exposed. This is why these panty waistes at Twitter are so apoplectic. Their BS is going to be exposed, finally!
They wont be able to deny they have engaged in extreme censorship of anything the extreme left doesn’t agree with.
“And when Elon’s people get a hold of that code?”
They’ll have to pull it from backup archival storage media, because it’ll all be sanitized by the time Musk’s techs get behind the wheel
And they might even be able to sanitize it from the archival storage as well – after all, this is Silicon Valley we’re talking about, I’d presume they have some very talented and capable computer specialists that can code some sanitizing strategies since they were capable of coding the software system in the first place.
I’m sure they’re hard at work sanitizing since last month and will be for the next several weeks or months until “Elon’s people” can actually get behind the wheel
Like with a cloth?
Bon Ami and latex gloves.
Despite several reports that the code has been locked down, it sure seems like some sanitizing is already going on: anecdotal reports of Libs losing thousands of followers and Conservatives gaining thousands of followers.
Naw most of the people they got working for them are H1B dot Indians that have fake degrees. All of the talent was fired years ago.
Well, in my estimation Nim, Elon has some of the sharpest minds on this planet working for him. I would assume, his people would easily dissect anything these 2nd rate faker libs could do or put together. Just look at SpaceX alone. Look at what they accomplished without Government BS and their supposed brightest minds.
Im no computer coder, but the people that guy has around him, are much smarter and leading edge than anything those morons at Twittler can produce.
Im going to say, it is childs play to design the system Twittler uses. Sundance pretty much laid it out.
They may all puke their curry. Note how many of them are from India.
Another reason to celebrate today:
Happy Birthday to the real 1st Lady.
No doubt
sudden new respect for the lowly pith helmet
Never seen it look so Beautiful …… and it is white not that dull khaki!
Happy birthday to a “beautiful smart woman!”
Miss her grace!!
Netflix dont have her in the First Ladies movie – complete losers!
or if they do, they didnt put her in the trailer
that Netflix was just an excuse to parade Moochelle … I’m sure they care less about the other first ladies, they just put them in to make it less obvious that it was a Moochelle-adoration vehicle
Moochelle is a tranny!
Don’t watch Obama loving Netflix. Don’t support them.
I hope she is happy doing something she loves w/people she loves.
She is totally amazing! That is why I do not think she will go back to DC. When DJT wins, he is going to have to commute back home A LOT.
I used to do M&A. We were and remain a very free market company. One year we bought a traditional utility, part of a traditionally highly regulated industry. Thirty minutes after we closed the deal we asked all 20 or so senior executives to assemble in the boardroom and then fired them en masse. That reflected our negative views not only of that company’s financial performance but of management’s utility mindset. You can’t teach pigs to think, and it’s best to move them out than waste time trying to get them to change their habits. So too, I believe will Musk decapitate Twitter’s management. And management can feel the knife coming.
Hopefully by tomorrow the same thing will happen to the ex-twitter “trust and security” division AKA “the ministry of truth”…
I hope so. Pigs are smart though.
“murders and executions”?
— P. Bateman
The current CEO Parang was a big time A.I. / M.L. engineer (Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning). Much of the censorship is performed by automation that he helped build and some of it is handled manually after being flagged by the automation. No doubt there are metrics tracking flagged content and showing how much influence those users had. They employed multiple measures to impact their political enemies and those whom they and only they considered disinformation. They would first shadow ban the posts so they didn’t appear in searches. They also shadow banned the content creator themselves so you couldn’t find them on a search. The shadow banned posts would not be showing up in the followers feeds. They effectively mute your posts and you won’t even notice you’ve been muted. Then they would remove hundreds to thousands of followers, some were just unfollowed. Large numbers of accounts were banned and deleted. Accounts would be suspended for quoting actual news articles or even Shakespeare. Most all of it is automated by the tooling that Parang and his teams built and put into use. No way that human moderators can keep up with the amount of data flowing on Twitter on a daily basis.
You sure said a lot. I hope it explains why i get a lot more recent tweets returned for my search on “Michael Isikoff” than I do on”Isikoff”.
(kludged up shit code)
So the question I have (excellent comment, btw), is will those algorithms and other automated AI functions used to censor, etc., be available for inspection (and, I assume, open sourced) when Musk installs his management team?
I give Elon kudos for understanding hi-tech engineering also. I wonder if this parang guy could land a smart robot on Mars.
Very well said J. Thanks. One thing that is quite clear is just how far from the idea of free speech the Twitter platform has moved. I’m reminded of Cass Sunstien’s nasty little book, “Nudge” where he advocates government policies and practices which are more aligned with Chinese authoritarianism than with customary American traditions. This dogma or something similar took root at Twitter because the company appears to be run by People Who Are Not From Here. If you come from a place that doesn’t value freedom and liberty, shadow=banning seems like a good idea.
I find the repeated emphasis on the word “safe” repugnant. The world isn’t safe, you lefty pod people, and your feelings don’t trump (heh) my right to free speech. GET OVER IT.
I suppose many of them will never get over it.
As long as they live, that is.
Like masks.
But safe only for them. Because it certainly isn’t very “safe” for conservatives to speak out.
Then this would really drive them crazy.
New Twitter logo?
Classic…….
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tone-deaf-msnbc-pundit-says-musk-run-twitter-could-be-manipulated-political-reasons
I guess they would know
It is being tweeted by many libtard blue checks on Twitter today that they are losing thousand and thousands of followers every hour since yesterday. Are the frightened nazi moderators at Twitter beginning to delete all their preplaced bots that were inserted into Twitter to make the blue checked libtards look important and popular? Is it better for them to start deleting all the bots before Musk exposes their shenanigans?
They have been gaslighting us for awhile now that all us common sense conservatives are a minority when in fact we are the majority all along. That strategy also helps them stack all their BS polling and setup their fraudulent election schemes.
Bot fleets are being dismantled as we type …
A good forensic IT team can still trace it all down. Bits and bytes will drift here and there. And they don’t dare use any kind of cleaner as that will be a sure fire flare signal.
Bad Bot! No Hiding!
Twitter Locks Down Product Changes Following Musk Takeover
Far-Left Idiots Freak Out as Their Bots Jump Ship After Musk Buys Twitter
Especially when Elon Musk calls them out.
Yikes!
Saw on a t-shirt…what would it be called if YouTube, Twitter and Facebook merged….
YouTwitFace…loved it!
They are losing their minds…one has to think that perhaps this WAS part of a plan? When they start to lose their jobs, will they indeed learn to code?
I would be happy if Elon purchased all three. The gummint would have to start all over again.
the meltdown over at thelayoff dot com /twitter is quite entertaining …
Embedded in this article is a video of Klaus schwab’s evil sidekick Yuval Harari explaining to a New York Times writer that it will now be possible to monitor every living being on this planet and eliminate all privacy and knowing what you are doing, what you think and what you feel, and the New York Times writer, rather than having a look of sheer HORROR on her face as the thought of this happening she sits there nodding her head in agreement. These people are sick.
https://rairfoundation.com/chief-advisor-of-klaus-schwab-and-the-wef-boasts-dreams-of-dictators-are-now-possible-video/
Scary stuff.
Sidebar note – Harari is also wearing what appear to be cartoonish socks. Is that a fashion trend with the WEF young leaders crowd?
Tucker just lumped Elise Stefanik in with Kevin McCarthy as RINO type conservatives and we should worry if
either of them is Speaker after 2022 elections – McCarthy we know about but does anyone know the scoop on ES?
Unfortunately, Stefanik is NOT MAGA or America First. Yes, you can lump her in with McCarthy. Truly unfortunate.
I don’t think she’s MAGA material. More of a opportunist and Speakership is customarily given to compromisers anyway…unfortunately. Any allegiance to MAGA from either of them will fade as Trump’s tenure ends, unless types like Desantis would be next up to bat, then MAGA will extenuate longer. Trump will have 4 years of getting MAGA installed into congress for when he returns. That will be bliss, compared to the first time around.
Speakership is customarily given to compromisers anyway…
Only Republicans. Democrats elect Speakers of the House that know how to wield power and aren’t shy about doing it.
correct
She is a lib who often votes with the dems
Hoping for MTG to take charge and clean house. All the old guard GOP blobs need to sit down and shut up for a change and let the next generation take over!
Grateful for everyone’s feedback xx
Stefanik is a stealth RINO. Tucker was spot on. Most–if not ALL–of the GOP Leadership (both houses) are NOT MAGA supporters. They are RINO globalists and CoC shills.
absolutely…
I am surprised, because it is ES who is one of the first to hit a nerve in the questioning of James Comey. Sundance wrote an article on this back at the time.
I think she is Maga
She is NOT.
Here is the oppositions view of ES, perhaps it will help you decide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/politics/elise-stefanik.html
Soccer is wrong to lump Elise Stefanik in with Kevin McCarthy, she fully supported Trump actively.
Correction: Tucker is wrong……
No, she voted against impeachment which is why PDJT supports her, but she is anti MAGA. https://www.independentsentinel.com/elise-stefanik-voted-against-entire-america-first-agenda/
Elise Stefanik had one good moment that she didn’t follow up on, and everyone thought she was MAGA.
Tucker Carlson knows these people and I think he was giving a warning to Republicans that she would not be a strong MAGA Speaker. Jim Jordan or Banks would be stronger, but Jordan wants to be head of the Judiciary Committee and that is a key position where Republicans need a strong leader.
I am just listening to her on Bannon from this a.m. talking about the border catastrophe –
she sounds ‘sound’ to me. I like her a lot and will certainly be paying better attention
to her actions. Here is what I just listened to –
https://warroom.org/2022/04/26/warroom-battle-ground-ep-37-stefanik-at-the-border-cleaning-up-the-mess-on-the-voter-rolls-so-the-democrats-cannot-steal-any-more-elections-the-lies-about-green-energy/
So great to be able to get feedback from treepers!
“I can only imagine what “years of censorship mechanisms” means inside the technology systems created by the Twitter regulators.”
Hearing reports that many right-leaning Twitter accounts are experiencing large increases in followers (either returning users or removal of suppression tools), while many far-left accounts are experiencing large decreases (de-botting). Speculation is that Twitter is in a clean-up operation before the Musk team takes over.
Sunlight Is Coming.
Indeed.
That disinfectant is strong!
‘Speculation is that Twitter is in a clean-up operation’
Agree
So for 5,984 years most of mankind had virtually zero censorship, then Twitter launched in 2006.
How did we survive those first 5,984 years?
Critical thinking and basic survival skills –
Love some liberal tears. Eff ’em. FJB. Trump Won.
I think Elon just outlined the new strategy. The commies in congress will now PASS LAWS that will allow censorship and end free speech. It may take a year or 2 but it is coming.
Just wait, they might name it the “Equitable Speech Act of 202X”.
or the “Affordable Speech Act of 202X”
Congress can’t pass laws which directly violate the First Amendment.
Watch them attempt to have their cake and eat it too.
Watch them pass a bill that might comport to the letter of the First Amendment’s plain meaning while violating the actual spirit of it. Reminds me actually of how the FISA Court was setup to function with respect to the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
an excellent observation. The FISA court is an abomination, justified as a compromise between the supposedly conflicting protections of the 4th/5th Amendments, and the war/defense powers of the President. And only a refusal by the FISA court to grant a secret warrant can be appealed. The rights to defend, to counsel, and the right to face accusers is also denied. The FISA court admits it has an extra heavy duty to protect civil rights because the Defendants do not know they are under attack so cannot defend.
The FISC system is a completely broken failure. It was formed for the specific purpose of protecting unrepresented US Citizen defendants from violation of Constitutional rights and stop spying abuse against US Citizens. The FISC was derelict in its duties to protect civil rights, hold hearings to discipline the lying and withholding DOJ/FBI, and its duty to withdraw improvidently granted secret spy warrants to protect the integrity (such as it was) of this Star Chamber court. The political “2-hop spying” approved by the FISC against a major US political party (to help another party candidate!) is extremely dangerous, especially with very large organizations. The FISC surely knew that it was issuing political spy warrants against Donald Trump and “2-unknown-hops” to enormous numbers of US Persons unknown even to the FISC.
Because spied-on US Citizens (including all the multi-hop spied-on US Citizens who are unknown to the FISC at the time these warrants are granted) are not represented to defend their 4th/5th Amendment rights, and because the FISC has proven itself incapable of trust by granting and refusing to withdraw false political spy warrants, there should be a “Public Defender Office – PDO” established by Congress to review and interrogate DOJ motions for spy warrants. The PDO would have the power to subpoena FBI/DOJ oath-swearers and probable cause evidence-providers with their records, present counter-evidence, and depose/interrogate them for the permanent record in the FISA Warrant proceedings. (IIRC, there were miraculously no civil-rights review ‘case records’ when the FISC knew it was politically spying on PDJT)
Such a secret Star Chamber PDO would have authority to file motions to discipline DOJ/FBI ethical violators and liars, and to withdraw fraudulently granted Warrants. The PDO would have authority to Appeal to the FISC-Review Court, and petition for cert to the Supreme Court. In view of the ‘need for speed” in true national security spy matters, even FISAs improvidently awarded by the FISC would be in force during secret appeal. But if FISAs were found to be improper on appeal, all the illegally spied-on US Persons would be notified, for civil recovery based on denial of their civil rights.
The PDO would further have authority to petition the Chief Justice for removal for bad behavior of FISC judges (with permanent copies to the US President and the Congressional Judiciary committees for impeachment consideration).
To divide both power and review in a manner contemplated by our Constitution Founders to limit corruption and protect civil rights, it is important that the PDO would NOT report to or be selected by the DOJ or Congress. PDO Attorneys would be hired and fired at will by the President (which could be delegated), and report to the President through the Office of White House Counsel. However, those appointed would not be permitted to have any previous connection to the CIA,NSA, FBI or any other spy agencies, to try to prevent infiltration and sabotage. Their case work would be made permanent records, which would be permanently available to future Presidents and White House Counsel. Even crooked, complicit FISC judges could no longer rely on secrecy to hide abuse, so would need to be more careful.
The Attorney General/DOJ is effectively selected and controlled by the Senate. The Senate approves the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who now appoints the FISC judges. But it would be better for separation of power if the Senate and House were required to vet and approve the FISC judges, and the FISC Appellate judge(s). With the PDO appointed by ONLY the President, a separate avenue of review and 4th/5th Amendment protection is created for unrepresented US citizens, and the defensive power and review to prevent illegal spying is dispersed to the President within Constitutional duties to Protect the Constitution and Take Care to faithfully enforce the laws. But the President should be granted NO NEW POWER TO SPY ON US CITIZENS, just to protect them.
As indicated, Congressional revision of the FISC should also require notification of US Persons who have been illegally spied on, and make use of illegal spying subject to civil damages. The Congress should also limit the term of FISC appointment, perhaps to 3 years. “Power corrupts, and absolute (and secret) power corrupts absolutely.
Division of power and outside appeal and review are the way our Founders tried to prevent corruption. There is no disinfecting public Brandeis sunlight to penetrate this secret Star Chamber court cesspool, but review and advocacy can be applied to do some pasteurization. There needs to be a Public Defender’s Office outside the Attorney General, FISC and DOJ/FBI to watch the DOJ/FBI and provide review of wrongful and/or political spy warrants. The PDO would receive DOJ/FBI spy Motions to the FISC, have authority to cross-examine and subpoena, move to discipline unethical DOJ counsel, appeal wrongful and/or overbroad FISA issuance, monitor the spying actually carried out under FISA Warrants to make sure it complies with legitimate Warrant scope and is only used for legitimate purpose, and recommend removal of corrupt/incompetent secret Star Chamber judges.
If Congress does not fix this, IMHO the President has the Constitutional authority under his requirement to Protect the Constitution and “Take Care” that the laws are faithfully (and equally) executed, to appoint adversarial counsel to represent unrepresented-unknowing US Citizens from “fake-evidence” overreach, overbroad warrants, misuse of spy information, and lack of probable cause in FISC proceedings.
It would be good politically for PDJT to do so publicly (upon his re-election), given the current reputation of the DOJ/FBI for unequal prosecution and violating US Citizen rights.
They do so all the time… which we then must fight.
They would have to change the Constitution via an amendment. That will never pass the states.
The media can melt down until there is nothing left but a puddle on the floor.
That happy event would will elicit thunderous applause and cheers from me.
I kept checking online news sources and aggregators for the latest on the epic meltdowns. And they are going to keep getting more shrill as the days go by. I think Mr. Musk is enjoying the show as much as we are.
freaks like them do the art of naming things ‘goood things’ to disguise their tresspassing.
Affordable Care Act = Heap of bullshit providing financial incentive oversight to force vaccines during 2016 but the idiot Hillary failed – push to 2020
Please buy Goolag next, Mr. Musk. They need a spanking.
Yes, it is indeed a joyous day knowing that the little woke gerbils in their Twitter cubicles who would usually be spinning on their indoctrination wheels and slurping the playbook pablum out of water bottles while attempting to protect those folk who what to destroy our Constitutional Republic and shred the Constitution have basically been told to FO. Also, looks like the palatial HQ is going to be the domicile of individuals that Twitter gerbils help create. In addition, it appears that many employees are going to be sent packing and therefore will be enjoying the full impart of the economy they helped create.
Shouldn’t the Twitter CEO face some repercussions for doing an impression of Apu at a company meeting?
I am taking issue with Musk’s comments about Free Speech and the law or as he says:
By “free speech”. I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Rule of Law in this country is codified by the Constitution. In simple terms the Constitution states here is what this Branch of Gov can and cant Do and this one and then this one. Everything else belongs to the people and or States. BUT here is what you CANNOT DO or TOUCH > 1A, 2A, etc.
The issue I have is that modern political discourse centers around what laws have passed or not passed. The center of the discourse should be IT AINT THE GOVERNMENT’s to touch – PERIOD.
If all the country clamored for censorship and elimination of free speech it would not nor should it over ride MY singular inalienable right to use it. Same with 2A.
sorry just something that has always bothered me about the discussion of “law” relating to my inalienable rights.
You are right to be uncomfortable. I think we can now expect congress to pass laws ending free speech under the guise of ending hate speech and speech that “jepordizes democracy” and don’t expect a SCOTUS ruling in favor of free speech either. But don’t worry, the reprobates will still be able to get their porn 24/7, THAT will be protected .
Free Speech is above the law
Mr. Musk thinks otherwise which doesn’t bode well for free speech.
I knew Musk was just a Trojan Horse trying to prop up and direct a 3 legged Blind Donkey!
Quite right.
The Bill of Rights were a enumeration of generally recognized Natural Rights at the time of adoption, as granted by the laws of Nature and it’s Creator, i.e. God.
More to the point, the Ninth Amendment was specific in that those prior enumerated Rights were not exhaustive of all of one’s Natural Rights.
Then there’s the neglected Tenth Amendment, which ought to put an end to that leviathan of Federal bureaucracies.
Truth is, most of government is lawless.
He should unleash all the censored tweets etc from everyone with time stamps. Let the world see what they hid from them.
I already know but the mindless masses needed a wake up call.
After reading this article and some comments below about Google, I googled “Conservative Tree House” and a couple of other sites. They all still appeared for now but the one positive CTH link was immediately followed by a link to a June 2020 Daily Beast article proclaiming “Meet the Conservative Tree House–The Cesspool That Spat Out Trump’s New Conspiracy About Cops.” CTH might end up on Google’s 5th page or not at all soon. Duckduck go had one site link followed by harsh criticisms.
The fight for free speech and freedom has finally begun in earnest after the half hearted and weak poser Republican efforts have failed in the past. But now the richest man in the world is so far on the free speech side. But Elon’s strength and resolve will be tested considerably. Hopefully, P Trump’s Truth Social will be another positive contribution to the fight and not a failure.
Wish I could recall the young info babe I saw on TV gushing about how excited she was to finally be one of the opinion SHAPERS on TV. As if the ability to present the news in such a way that would guarantee the desired result is the ultimate thrill in liberal land.
How to handle mass exodus?
Hmmmm. Let’s see.
How about shut down the HQ in San Francisco and turn the place into a homeless shelter. Remember that tweet? And then move the entire operation to The Lone Star State. California employees will not be guaranteed jobs going forward and absolutely none of their moving expenses will be paid for by the company!
Merge with Truth Social
Project Veritas has had a a Rumble account for some time now, as if they anticipate being booted from You Tube at some point in the future. Here’s a link right to today’s video at Rumble
https://rumble.com/v12k266-twitter-insider-leaks-audio-recording-of-internal-all-hands-meeting-followi.html
What they fear is revenge, and revenge is what they should rightly fear. They are aware that they have ruined the lives of many Americans and not all are willing to turn the other cheek.
When the pendulum swings too far in one direction you can be sure it will swing too far in the other and that counter swing is what they really fear. And rightly so.
They know that if the pendulum swings too far there will be no place for even the smallest one of them to hide.
What’s Jack Dorsey going to do with all that money he got out of that deal?
Buying some new facial piercings and ear rings?
hire a barber?
Just a reminder here – You don’t get handed freedom, you have to take it and then fight to keep it.
Bye bye scumbag’s Leslie Bertrand and that lousy crapbag Arawal!!
Time to start thinning the ranks from top to bottom at twitter!!
Also time to crank up the heat against the Zuckerberg crud’s and his traitorous chicom commie organization!!
Also, now it looks like the truth is coming out about Bezos selling Amazon which he was intimately, and still is, in bed with the chicom commies!!
Time to start taking zuck and bezos apart large piece by piece for doing the work of their chicom masters!!
Bunch of prime slime!!
It is time to start take my the offensive against and to google and Apple and the rest of silicon valley as well as the rest of the media moguls who have sold our secrets to our enemies namely the chicom commies!!
I certainly hope that Elon Musk opens up twitter to true free speech.
But, doesn’t the ‘new’ twitter compete with PDJT’s Truth Social?
If the CIA had concerns that PDJT would eventually have success with Truth Social, they would construct apparent competition.
If it is true that all the new Billionaires are created with CIA assistance, then Elon Musk was assisted by government financing, sheparding and assistance. (who not-in-the-club knows? but the CIA IS historically known for its clandestine business operations, and large amounts of money have gone to the successful companies which collect personal data for the FBI/CIA/NSA.
On the flip side, what took PDJT so long to get the Truth Social operation up and running? It is not really that difficult from a software perspective. If the CIA wanted to slow it down, it would be easy to infiltrate a startup, to compromise code and otherwise slow down development. CIA/FBI are well-known for infiltration. There are still one or more “redacted” infiltrators reported in the PDJT 2016 election operation.
PDJT needs to have a better mechanism for weeding out infiltrators. For example, there are multielectrode (contact only) which are much better than old-fashioned ‘lie detectors’.
“Are you or have you ever been a CIA or other government agent?”
“Do you despise hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell, adam schiff and liz cheney?
“Have you been requested, or do you plan to compromise or report on the Truth Social business to someone outside the company?”
Please sign this agreement waiving privacy and attorney/client or other privileges relating to the truth of your answers, should you turn against us….
Thinking about the legal threats against both twitter and Truth Social, there does need to be some mechanism to protect these companies from legal liability like lawfare inspired harassment. And Britain (which has no free speech rights) has threatened the new twitter if the british government can’t remove material deemed undesirable by the government.
In the US, upon protest or direction from the US Government, tweets could be removed. But the Government would be required to prove that the ‘tweet’ was outside the protection of the First Amendment. The burden of proof would be “beyond a reasonable doubt” because this is a Constitutional protection. If the Government does not prove its case, the ‘tewwt is restored, AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS DAMAGES TO THE ‘TWEETER”. The calculation of damages is difficult. It could be a set fee per follower. Less say that PDJT has 80 million followers, and the US Government tells twitter to remove a PDJT statement that in his opinion, there were votes ‘counted’ in the 2020 election that were illegal. The US Government would need to prove this statement was not protected by the Constitution beyond any reasonable doubt, by jury trial (in Florida, the tweeter’s state of residence, not the crooked DC circuit). When the Government loses, the penalty could be $10 times 80 million, plus the tweeter’s attorney fees and costs.
Take the decisions and penalties away from “Top Down” corruption, to “Bottum Up” control by the ‘people’.
Any other ideas?
Unsure of the “legality” but like the “justice.”
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Right now, miracuously, liberals are losing thousands of Twitter followers and Conservatives gaining thousands. How severe is the adjustment? Glenn Beck is reported to have gained 100,000 followers this morning. Someone is getting rid of evidence at Twitter.
I dont use twitter, never appealed to me.
I say enough stuff around the house that gets me in trouble with the missus.
The only thing I know about the Musk purchase is the kind of people that are losing their minds over it, and that makes me smile.
If you’re pissing off the right people, then maybe it’s a good thing.
If these dumb quiverbutt pantywaist bastards want something to incessantly niggle over in an effort to micromanage the wild, wild west of free expression, they should get in touch and begin keeping my carrot and spinach beds free of pigweed. They’ll love it, because we are at the early stages when they’ll have to crawl along on their hands and knees and pluck out baby pigweed one at a time. Right up their alley, and sounds like they’re all fixing to have plenty of time because there’s absolutely no use for their skillset in the real world. What a bunch of dumb quiverbutt crybabies.
I just listened to the leaked audio. These poor people believe they are doing “important work.”
When I was growing up these types were called mentally ill and sent to Milledgeville.
Why anyone listens to these yayhoos is a modern mystery. They deserve ridicule and nothing else.
Keep in mind that Google (AKA Alphabet) was designed by the CIA. They want you to know what they want you to know. Thank you, Elon Musk …
And Facebook was born (fully formed) the day after DARPA shut down Lifelog. It was not created by Zuck. A lot of folks still don’t know this and/or don’t care. FB is nothing but mass formation psychosis, except for folks who only do business there or keep up with family and friends.
More Hollywood morons are chiming in with their 2 cents worth. This from Oscar winner Cate Blanchett:
Cate Blanchett is the latest left-wing Hollywood star to sound the alarm on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, calling the billionaire free-speech advocate’s ownership of the social media platform “very, very dangerous.” The two-time Oscar-winning actress who’s set to appear in the Netflix-produced animated film Pinocchio issued her ominous prognostication prior to receiving a career award from Lincoln Center in New York on Monday.
“It’s dangerous,” Blanchett told Variety when asked about Musk’s takeover.
“That’s all I have to say, it’s very, very dangerous.”
Interesting. Loved her in LotR but that’s all (I purposely miss 98% of movies because I grew up with Hollywood’s kids and know how sick that place is). In fact, Walt’s original “Pinnochio” has been revealed to have pedo symbolism in it. I have a good idea of what Netflix will produce…
What if “I’m am beholden to my US and China government clients” Musk is doing this to blunt Truth Social with the intent of minimizing or destroying Truth Social, at the behest of his government clients? Then, if successful, say a year from now sells Twit. Musk’s businesses are too dependent on the US and Chinese government to be trusted and his claiming to be a proponent of free speech on Twit needs to be scrutinized. Musk is a member of the WEF Future Young Global Leaders and IMO cannot be trusted.
What are they afraid of? People finally figuring out how crazy they are!!
People finally figuring out they’ve been had…
Indeed.
The final solution for the rampant left, with encouragement from govt., was to declare speech that opposed their narrative “hate speech”, from there it’s a small step to criminalise speech and silence your opposition by deletion and cancelation
The left believe any non-compliant opinion is immoral. And they pretty well have most kids on board.
These employees act like they have a right to do whatever they feel. They have got their way , year by year. DJT ( who ran successful businesses before) had people working for him that could not stand him. Instead of resigning or quitting , they felt they had the right to undermine their boss. In private biz, DJT ,if u don’t produce , you get fired. Twit employees think they are entitled to their decisions and their jobs. Who wants employees working for them who act like babies, and do not do what is best for the co. ? When this grace period is over, I pray EM will have a housecleaning and it will be “ my way or the highway”. Pray and pray more
Would love to hear a rumor of another possible acquisition of one of the other censored media platforms.
The exploding heads would be immeasurable.