Twitter Employees Meltdown, Freak-Out Over Musk Purchase And Free Speech
Echoes of Hitler Youth. Freedom of speech is the enemy of totalitarians.
Far-Left Idiots Freak Out as Their Bots Jump Ship After Musk Buys Twitter
Tucker Carlson's Opening Monologue On @elonmusk Buying Twitter
"Musk's purchase of Twitter is the single biggest political development since Donald Trump's election in 2016. It is certainly the most threatening challenge to the corrupt & incompetent leadership of this country." pic.twitter.com/AAfWw3zBhS
— The Columbia Bugle
(@ColumbiaBugle) April 26, 2022
From my sources: Vocal Twitter employees on internal chats indicate their biggest fear is Donald Trump being unbanned. Many express strong hatred toward @elonmusk & say they’re sick of hearing about “free speech.” They’re concerned about their mental health. #ElonMuskBuyTwitter
— Andy Ngô
(@MrAndyNgo) April 25, 2022
Twitter employees are having breakdowns pic.twitter.com/xIPcty2x6z
— Jack Posobiec
Twitter locked down the ability of its employees to make changes to the platform after it was revealed that @elonmusk has reached a deal to buy the company. The lockdown is to prevent activist employees from sabotaging the platform as revenge for the deal. https://t.co/8qmxSDJNia
— Andy Ngô
And the enemedia is in a rabid frenzy:
CNN’s on air “talent” is distraught over Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase. Enjoy: pic.twitter.com/HmH7nNsf26
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 26, 2022
Watch:
Pamela Geller Geller Report https://gellerreport.com/The great Musk meltdown
Nothing terrifies the woke set more than free speech.
By: Andrew Doyle, The Spectator, April 25, 2022:
One of the few pleasures of the current culture war is to observe the hysteria of its chief antagonists whenever something doesn’t go their way. A couple of weeks ago, it was the frenzy over the UK government’s announcement that Channel 4 was likely to be privatised. MP Claudia Webb claimed that the government’s plan was ‘not freedom or independence’ but rather ‘the seedbed of fascism’. She was clutching those pearls so hard that she was in danger of breaking her fingers.And now, the news that Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter has been successful has caused a predictable meltdown of volcanic proportions. In the unbridled mania among identitarian leftists, we are seeing evidence that they have not learned the lessons of Brexit or the election of Donald Trump, which they similarly treated as portents of the apocalypse. It takes an infantile mind not to accept that democracy works on the basis of the loser’s consent, the principle that – as Roger Scruton put it – ‘We respect our fellow citizens even when they do not vote our way, because the government is not “mine” or “yours” but “ours”’.Even the deranged reactions to the Brexit and Trump votes were but tepid premonitions of the responses to Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Comedian Kathy Griffin tweeted that Musk is a ‘media-thirsty, vindictive, white supremacist who is looking to convince you he is an innovative disruptor’. Activist Shaun King wrote that Musk’s move is ‘about white power’. Apparently, Musk is ‘upset that Twitter won’t allow white nationalists to target / harass people. That’s his definition of free speech.’ No evidence for these claims has been forthcoming, of course. Like all his fellow activists, King has the kind of access to his political opponents’ private thoughts that Uri Geller could only dream about.King has since deleted his Twitter account, and many others have threatened to do so, too. Actor Jameela Jamil’s statement that she is leaving Twitter has been clocking up the retweets and likes, so it’s understandable that her account still remains active. The broadcaster India Willoughby has said that ‘if Elon gets Twitter, I think that’s it for me’. Activist Tim Wise has gone straight for the trash talk: ‘Fuck Elon Musk. Apartheid Baby. You, your company, and everyone who Stans for you. I’m saying this on your platform now and will keep saying it. Let’s see how committed you are to free speech when we start roasting your ass.’ Twitter has not been this entertaining for years.There’s little doubt that Musk’s first tweet following the news of his successful bid has only enraged his detractors all the more. ‘I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter’, he wrote, ‘because that is what free speech means’. Musk is stubbornly refusing to dive into the squalid pit that his critics have dug for themselves, and from which they are frantically slinging mud that inevitably falls back on to their own heads. The moral high ground is far more satisfying.Who knows whether or not Musk will improve Twitter? He can hardly make it any worse. There are a few simple changes that he could make that would demonstrate his commitment to free speech. Firstly, he could disband Twitter’s ‘Trust and Safety Council’, or at least give it a name that makes it sounds less like a group of Maoist bureaucrats orchestrating their struggle sessions. He could draw up coherent terms of service to explicitly outline which kinds of behaviour are prohibited on the platform. At present, the rules are deliberately vague, which means that users are often booted off the site without justification. Even appeals tend to result in further automated responses, digital missives from the Ministry of Truth.For a long time, woke activists have been intoning the mantra that ‘Twitter is a private company and can do what it likes’, safe in the knowledge that the ideological bent of Silicon Valley conveniently aligns with their own. Few of them are saying that following yesterday’s news. The problem has never been that Twitter does not tolerate threats or harassment on its platform, but rather that harassment is often conflated with relatively innocuous behaviour in order to justify deleting accounts for political or ideological reasons. For instance, many gender-critical feminists have been censored simply for stating biological truths, or raising important questions about child safeguarding and the preservation of women-only spaces. With Musk in charge, perhaps these conversations could be allowed to take place.
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