The war for internet free speech has begun
The internet is the most important tool people have to express themselves and fight for their rights, and that's why those in power want to clamp down on it.
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Nothing is quite so telling as the efforts to stifle free expression.
There can be some benefit to keeping your mouth shut. I’m reminded of the world war 2 phrase “Loose lips sink ships” — which basically means that one should watch what they say in order to avoid giving useful information to one’s enemies. It was meant to prevent military personnel and citizens alike from accidentally sharing information that might harm the war effort. An honorable goal, but it also has devious utility. It stifles honest discourse for the sake of preserving some illusion of propriety to inhibit an inconvenient, or dangerous, consequence.
The media and their useful idiots have been in an uproar since Elon Musk proposed the purchase of Twitter, merely by consequence of knowing his position on freedom of speech on the internet. A self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist’, Musk poses a severe threat to the control structure the institutional left has built for themselves by utilizing the social media platforms they operate to circumvent constitutional rights and privatize censorship in lockstep with the agenda of the current regime running Washington D.C.
Musk threatened that control structure by taking over the keystone of that structure and the institutional left is panicking that their whole rigged game structure is about to crumble. After all, it doesn’t take a scientist to know what happens to an arch when the keystone is removed.
During an interview with Kara Swisher at a Knight Foundation conference, one of the now-deposed architects of Twitter’s staunch partisan censorship structure they hilariously named ‘trust and safety’, Yoel Roth, claims that Twitter is no longer safe without people like him at the helm guiding the ship toward the icebergs through which Musk is currently navigating the ship. Initially when he was still getting paid a disgusting amount of money by Twitter, he didn’t feel that way.
But of course, that was with him still being installed in a position for which he wasn’t ethically suited. After his departure from the company — which was likely the result of him apparently sabotaging the launch of Twitter Blue’s verification — he changed his tune. When asked if he still feels as though the platform is safe, he answered, “I don’t.”
This then led into a diatribe where he lamented personal autonomy and freedom of assembly on the internet because a few kids on 4chan decided to troll the platform by going on it and spamming racial slurs. His past tweets tell the story of how he feels about autonomy for people with whom he doesn’t agree.
The host, Swisher, chimes in with a remark about Twitter discontinuing its draconian COVID misinformation policy, and Roth remarked in kind, “One way of streamlining the work of trust and safety, I guess, is to have fewer rules.”
I guess trust and safety never included cleaning up the child porn problem that has existed for years on the platform since it didn’t ‘violate policies’. It violated Federal laws, but not Twitter’s policies. That’s a little extreme when it comes to the autonomy of a private company. I’m not a socialist but that needs to be reined in and the appropriate individuals within the company need to be jailed for allowing it to persist.
Elon’s reply to this is that Yoel Roth is lying through his teeth and that trust and safety on the platform was a failure for 10 years — 7 of those years were under Roth’s watch. The Twitter CEO and owner promises that “Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed.”
This all comes on the heels of Apple threatening to remove Twitter from their app store according to Musk, who didn’t provide a given reason for Apple’s potential decision, but it likely stems from sour grapes due to moderation decisions on the platform. Not unlike the way Parler was wholly expunged from both Google and Apple’s app stores in the wake of January 6th.
Now do you believe this is a war? Because I do.
It is imperative that the problem of app store deplatforming be addressed, and fast. Apple and Google’s duopolous tyranny when it comes to limiting what apps people have access to is a vital thing to address in the coming months. Having powerful corporations that can manipulate how you run your company through threats does not make a bit of sense. This would not be allowed at all if it wasn’t very convenient to the power structure in the U.S.
Your rights are under threat by both the government and private corporations in an unholy marriage of tyranny. THAT is the definition of fascism, leftists.