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. 🙂
What the problem…They can always go over to Truth Social…..
“they should just start their own – its a free country nothing is stopping them.”
said Snarky Progressive – pronouns his/ hers/ ?/ cause its all about me
How long will it take Merrick “Mitto” Garland to launch into attack mode?
Good one, Had a great laff when I read your post!
Not sure about Musk and who his followers are but I would guess a mix of young and old, technical people, male and female(real) and simply those who like his standing up and defending himself, his family, and his business. A true old school moderate?
Could this be a portent of more people putting their foot down and telling the scream at the sky leftist babies, “why don’t you go outside and play hide and go F yourself”.
Watch your back Elon.
How long before the FBI moves in to seize the Twitter servers while sending their SWAT team to arrest Musk in the name of ‘saving democracy’.
They certainly can’t put up with a rogue actor much longer exposing the entire cabal for who and what they are
We know that want to. They are just debating when, where and how to eliminate him.
A job for the CIA
and their Mofia division!
They have the most experience I understand. Good job.
I’m sure plans are being drawn up now. The DC junta likes making examples of its enemies (ref. J6 protesters).
PDJT will soon be indicted and likely arrested. I don’t think slapping down another uppity billionaire will be a problem for the Xiden regime.
No, but I wonder what we the people do if he is arrested?
I fear not much.
“While demanding to see the manager, CNN’s [KAREN]…!
“…the resulting outrage over their claimed curtailment of speech has exploded the universal hypocrisy continuum.”
OMG, Sundance, can you turn a phrase!
Sir, I commend your many talents.
Out-Analyze the analysts, Out-journo the journalists, Out-Report the report-olists?
Well you get the point, and now you out comedic the comedians too?!
Elon the [conservative] Impersonator may deserve a few accolades for ‘finally’ puttin’ the hurt on the lefties, but no one and I mean NO ONE, holds a candle to Sundance!
Man, what a great way to start my weekend… ROTFLMAO!
Thank you, and bless your many talents, a true Gift from, well, you know Who!
As we saw in the Twitter Files one of the most despised accounts by the Leftists was LibsOfTikTok.
LibsOfTikTok’s entire modus operandi is to post things that were already posted publicly. That mattered not a whit and the account was suspended and banned this year probably.
Yet now suddenly we hear the doleful defense that airplane flight info is all publicly available data.
Airplane flight data is available in the public data realm. Has been for some time. Doesn’t make their whining about it a legitimate reason to reinstate them. Poor darlings.
His flight data is hidden behind FAA privacy rules which means ElonJet was bypassing Elon’s security to dox him. That’s not legal in the slightest.
Musk should close all the european Twitter offices.
Thanks for the clarification.
Hey Musk – Deliver the goods. As of now you be another deep state tool.
Nonsense.
The urnalists suspended from Twitter should feel they have been sent down to the minors. There are many venues they can use to get their message out. Heck, they may try using their media assets.
Look, Elon has sent them to the minors for a week. They may be brought back into the majors where we can all see them play.
If they stay in the minors, so be it. At least they had their moment in the sun…
My pronouns are: This is my brother Darryl/other brother Daryl
Speaking of pronouns . . .
in today’s “Wall Street Journal” crossword puzzle (Friday, December 16, 2022)here is
36 Across: Pronoun for ships
a three letter word . . . hmm! I think the answer is “She”
and I think to myself, there is still hope!
Can you imagine the horrible-ness if someone from the Biden administration, some important federal agency – or of course, the Department of the Navy (for naval vessels) as well as the Department of Commerce (cruise ships) will host a joint announcement that ships will now no longer be referred to with the pronouns “She” or “Her”.
Maybe AG Merrick “Mitto” Garland will be in on it as well, announcing heavy fines for violations.
The irony of all of this is, Elon Musk is not even conservative, in the comprehensive sense.
Wholesale far left account suspensions, and massive conservative account restorations. From someone who is ideologically traditional liberal and a huge beneficiary of Government subsidies.
THAT’S how bad the rabid ideological bias was at that far left deep state cesspool.
And that’s precisely what gives him credibility, he’s not right-leaning. Or at least he hasn’t been but after this shit show, the scales will surely fall from his eyes.
Plus liberal writers too put it out there.
If any of those suspended FAKE NEWS Journalists were doxed they would be the first ones crying to the corrupt DOJ to arrest the Doxer’s.
It’s looking like more and more voting our way out of this is looking glimmer and glimmer. They will stop at nothing. The current republican leadership will see to it.
No, we are NOT voting ourselves out of this. The soap box and ballot box have been foreclosed by the DC Junta.
That leaves only one box as the solution
If you want to see the “Ask”, how the FBI and DHS tasked Twitter with taking action on certain accounts, well here it is. Twitter files Part Six is now out and they’re just now beginning to get their heads wrapped around what was really going on behind the scenes. Sundance’s comment is even included at the end of the story….lol.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-files-twitter-fbi-subsidiary
Sundance’s is the only site I trust anymore.
this is great, but I see a missed opportunity: Musk floods the musk tracking sites with false info and doxes all the journalists/ propagandists until they remove themselves from twitter?
The swamp with out their swamp gas, gets back to “if a tree fell in the forest and no one was there would it make a sound?”
The uniparty cannot survive without their horse petunias.
I bet 90% of them are under 40.
This is what you get when you raise generations where 100% get a trophy for showing up + put cellphones in their hands in the cradle…
and living in their mother’s basement
How I wish these people had been shut up. The country would be in such a better place! These truly are the enemies of the country.
Six or seven years ago when Bruce Ohr and his wife were newsworthy Sundance mentioned her radio license number. I looked it up and found Ohr’s street address. Looked that address up on google earth and was shocked to see the dump they live in. So I commented with the address asking how two highly paid people chose to live in a hovel. Sundance called me out for “doxing” the Ohr’s. I thought doxing is what you do if your horse’s or dog’s tail is too long. I was (am) very ashamed.
I’ve always wondered what Nellie was doing with her shortwave radio.
That was her NOC (non operational cover) address 😉
Nice that Keith is wearing a Canucks shirt because he is acting like a whiny Canuck….very Geoff Courtnall-ish
Now just kick olbermann out of SABR
I, myself, the chairman of the DuPage Township Republican org, a long time reader and follower here and having just lost my election for Will county board all while dealing with various Facebook bans and Twitter shadow banning and search banning of my account during all the time I was campaigning find myself in utter joy! As small a triumph this may be for our side, it is a great Christmas gift from Oak tree to us.
Interestingly Lieu shot him down in a tweet (which included a dig on EM of paying too much for Twitter). Perhaps Lieu is prompting the leftists to look for a legal angle they can gruber.
This is EPIC…they all don’t see the irony in all this!!
Do people see the irony and hypocrisy?
Twitter is a private service with the unbridled power to kick anyone off, when the Left is kicking conservatives off.
When this same private service kicks Leftists off, the screaming communists want Elon Musk jailed or hauled before Congress because this is then a restriction of “protected, free speech.”
“Do people see the irony and hypocrisy?”
Absolutely, and this kind of war can go on for decades or centuries because no one is killed. There is no fear, no casualties, no abject suffering among the combatants. We, ordinary citizens, suffer, sure.
We’ve seen the beginning of it over the last 20 years or so. Expect it to go long, long into our future, for those of us who don’t die along the way. When I go out, time is short, I can least say I saw the beginning of the end after some decent years.
Rome, 450 A.D.
YES Keith it was the baptism scene….you were the hooker in bed with big media that got machine gunned
Now that Elon has taken the stick out from Olbermann’s behind, it was only a matter of time until his head would implode due to the negative pressure within. I for one will enjoy his voiceless presence, the guy is a lunatic anyways (imho).
So if it is the baptism scene from the Godfather who is in the role of Carlo who Elon will be taking out next?
Whatever you might say about Elon, he is the FIRST person to do this with these JOURNOLISTS. And its a nice feeling that they get their comeuppance.
I LOVE Elon.
I think he will do the right thing never mind his eccentricities. They also had a guy following Musk who had his little son in the car. Now if thats not dangerous then what is. Following and doxxing children are out of bounds. What was the intention of that guy?
Also he has exposed the pedophilia that Twitter enabled–among others Yoel Roth whose thesis which Elon posted part of was, that pedophilia is OK.
It is NEVER OK.
And why are these journoloists not following the private jets of the Bidens, John Kerry, Prince William, Elton John and the Clintons among others???
Stalkers are dangerous. It has been proven and is why it is a violation of state and federal laws to stalk someone.
Doxxing (giving out the physical location of a person) has only one purpose – to enable stalking. It should bring a prison term for anyone engaged in doxxing anyone.
Hilarity Ensues After Elon Joins ‘Twitter Spaces’ Chat, Tells Journos ‘You’re Not Special’
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2022/12/16/hilarity-ensues-after-elon-joins-twitter-spaces-chat-tells-journos-youre-not-special-n674561
What is a Jason Kint?
Elon has reinstated Steve Kirsch who is /was exposing the dangers of the Covid vaccines.
For that I salute him
Yesterday Stev Kirsch pointed out that Celine Dions incurable illness, Stiff “Person” syndrome is an acknowledged side effect of the Covid “Vaccine” (prev Stiff Man Syndrome)
Celine Dion was disabled from a KNOWN SIDE EFFECT of the COVID vaccine (99.6% certainty)
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/celine-dion-was-vaccinated-and-was?publication_id=548354&post_id=90271062&isFreemail=true
US government data shows it is 99.6% likely that Celine Dion got her Stiff Person Syndrome from the COVID vaccine. She can’t sue because of the liability protection.
Note to Steve, you do not beg for your followers back, you earn them. Prove yourself again in the arena of ideas.
“CNN’s Oliver Darcy contends that Twitter cannot exist without the journalists Mr. Musk has now removed.”
Pfft. I wouldn’t know any of them if it were not for their tweets.
From the Twitter Files: Twitter, The FBI Subsidiary
The latest documents show, in bulk, the grotesque master-canine relationship between the FBI and Twitter
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-twitter-the?publication_id=1042&post_id=90846442&isFreemail=true
I would add the CIA and all the alphabet government security and alphabet news organisations
Well now, looks like we may have the grounds for some class action 1st amendment lawsuits in the making!
haha
“reevaluate” ?
forbid their suspended “journalists” from tweeting?
refuse to post disinformation or propaganda for the federal government on twitter?
Is their past and current “relationship with Twitter” that they want to reevaluate, exposed in upcoming releases of Twitter files??
Bugs Bunny voice: mmmmm could be!
I have some words for those “journalists”
Walter Duranty Pulitzer Stalin “New York Times”
pulitzer for fake “russia, russia, russia” FBI scam against PDJT
Cable viewership is not that great so how are they going to remind people that they exist?
One would think that the guy one hires to read stuff on air actually knows how to read. He cannot even say the word “volatility”.
HELLO!
Sad, but it’s all one can expect from CNN.
At least he didn’t say you can’t read this, only we can read it to you because we’re journalists.
On a Saturday? In the latter half of December? Good luck with that!
Right? And who is this joker anyway?
ROFLOL!!!! Idiot
Appears to be intentional violation of the First Amendment free speech civil rights, by federal government employees, conspiring with twitter employees. I’m sure that merrick garland will be right on it !!!! :
From the ‘Justice Department’ itself:
18 US Code Section 241 “makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the Unites States or because of his or her having exercised such a right.
Unlike most conspiracy statutes, §241 does not require, as an element, the commission of an overt act.
The offense is always a felony, even if the underlying conduct would not, on its own, establish a felony violation of another criminal civil rights statute. It is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment unless the government proves an aggravating factor (such as that the offense involved kidnapping aggravated sexual abuse, or resulted in death) in which case it may be punished by up to life imprisonment and, if death results, may be eligible for the death penalty.”
also, Merrick Garland will certainly immediately prosecute clear violation of First Amendment civil right of free speech by government employees operating “under color of law” !!!!! /s
From the ‘Justice Department’ itself:
Title 18 US Code Section 242 “makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.”
Thank you, counselor! Spot on statutes.
I took Constitutional Law back in the 1960’s, when there was Constitution to study.
It had been twisted and distorted by then (eg, the ‘commerce clause’ expanding the federal government to anything that that affected the ‘economy’, like a farmer growing food for his animals solely in his own state being subject to federal law…), but was still somewhat respected by many judges, congresscritters and government employees.
Fkg whining, cry baby, pu**ies; all of them.
My take on the Musk massacre
First, the basics: a day and a half ago Musk’s son was, in Musk’s mind, put in danger by an anonymous driver who ran the car he was in off the road and who then jumped on the hood. Somebody had tracked down Musk’s location and assumed that he was in the car.
What exactly happened isn’t 100% clear, but Musk was justifiably upset and implemented a policy on Twitter to prevent the real-time tracking of anybody’s location under Twitter’s existing doxxing policy.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/12/16/my-take-on-the-musk-massacre-n518242
BRAVO!
I think its safe to say Ms. Weiss will no longer be a conduit for future Twitter file releases.
So which “journalist” is Musk gonna tag for his next installment?
I nominate Sundance.
Glenn Greenwald seems like a good choice.
Cheryl Attkisson, who was directly targeted by the Deep State.
She would be merciless in ripping their guts out, communication by communication.
And she’s sharp as a whip.
These crybabies should join Truth Social.
Freedom of speech MUST prevail. Thank you, Mr. Musk, for saving our Constitutional, representative republic from further attacks by the communist left.
If lets say we did the same to these so called “defenders of freedom”, the Journos would be calling not just for our arrests, but for the lives of our families to be destroyed.
The arrogance and hypocrisy is at Brandon levels!
Fck journos. They are not journalist, they are grifters for the state.
And my pronoun are fck/journos
I do admire Mr. Musk. I would not trade him for 1,000,000 RINOs.
It is so amusing to see the propaganda spreaders in the whining mode!
🎵 Cry, cry, Baby! 🎵
Doo wap!
I can happily attest that I know none of the names put out by poor Keith. And they think we cannot live without them.
Pshaw!
Just watch us…
BTW, I heard today that AOC’s drama about Green Energy or whatever has tanked at the box office. I don’t know anything about it, but I do know she will blame Musk, somehow.
They yelled “fire” and Musk put out the fire. Great Job Elon!
I would offer as a possibility that The Journalists were eagerly doxxing Elon in a coordinated effort to have their accounts suspended. Martyrs, if you will.
that does it, I’m doxing the last congressional delegation to the kraine.
So banning journalists will bring down the country, but banning the President of the United States is of no consequence. Only narcissistic psychos have this amount of entitlement and hubris.