In all of the Twitter files there is exactly one order to take down a Tweet. From the Trump administration.
Abd look at that âfReE sPeEcHâ paradise now. Advertisers seem reluctant to a platform where Nazis have been given the green light and the owner is baring his anti Semitism as the platform collapses.
The FBI explained that they were doing exactly what we all believe to be the legitimate job of the FBI. Helping a private company enforce their own internal policiesâŚand paying that company to help the FBI do it.
X seems to be moving towards the model of free speech as long as pay for it.
I have no problem with a subscription model but everyone who has and does refer to X as the modern day town square should.
Musk alienating his biggest advertisers is mind boggling. And advertisers are not indulging in censorship, advertisers have throughout history going back to the first newspapers pulled advertising for various reasons and they have every right to do so.
X does not have some inherent right that mandates advertisers have to keep spending dollars on that platform nor do they have any obligation to continue advertising.
lol. It makes a lot more sense than "80 FBI agents there to squash racism, anti-Semitism, threats, and extremismâŚerr, I mean âconservative speechâ.
The âtWiTtErâ fIlEs" was a stage managed face plant and it showed the only actual censorhip and orders to take anything down came from the Trump administration.
The FBI would âmake suggestionsâ of what they considered a âproblem tweetâ. Then, if nothing happened they would contact Twitter to find out why. You may not feel intimidated by the FBI making âsuggestionsâ and checking on you to find out if you acted on them. Most would.
Was anyone at Twitter âintimidated?â No, they werenât.
And the fact remains, the only heavy handed gummint censorship was the Trump administration, who ordered a Tweet taken down because it mocked Trump. Free Speech my behind, Republicans just want to mainstream their extremism.
âIn a preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty, the judge ordered a slew of federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down âcontent containing protected free speechâ thatâs posted on the platforms.â
âGovernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.â
âFBI, DHS and Big Tech had an organized system for flagging content.â Not occasionally but in enormous numbers involving spread sheets and accounts into the hundreds of thousandsâŚ"