{"id":517127,"date":"2022-11-28T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T06:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T03:46:18","slug":"the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"#The left throws a tantrum as Elon Musk reverses censorship on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a417ac239dc8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/#%E2%80%9CThe_left_throws_a_tantrum_as_Elon_Musk_reverses_censorship_on_Twitter%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The left throws a tantrum as Elon Musk reverses censorship on Twitter&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/#Censorship_hypocrisy\" >Censorship hypocrisy\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-left-throws-a-tantrum-as-elon-musk-reverses-censorship-on-twitter\/#%E2%80%98Mistake_to_delete_Don\" >\u2018Mistake\u2019 to delete Don\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_left_throws_a_tantrum_as_Elon_Musk_reverses_censorship_on_Twitter%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The left throws a tantrum as Elon Musk reverses censorship on Twitter&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Miranda Devine\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/miranda-devine222.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> that Elon Musk brought his 2-year-old son \u2014 one of 10 children \u2014 into key meetings at Twitter headquarters, after taking over the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> company in the fall, might make it less of a mystery to lefties why his \u201cPriority #1\u201d has been to banish child sexual exploitation material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not that you need to be a parent to abhor child pornography, but for some reason the vile content effectively was given a free pass at Twitter before Musk arrived, so clearly not everyone in the company respected society\u2019s last taboo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lauding Twitter\u2019s dedication to child safety and attack on degeneracy, leftist media has been decrying Musk\u2019s attempts to restore free speech protections as if they are a threat to civilization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are hopping mad that Musk is demolishing the left-wing censorship regime that saw a sitting president de-platformed, satirical site The Babylon Bee banned and the oldest newspaper in the country locked out of its account for two weeks before the 2020 election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Censorship_hypocrisy\"><\/span>Censorship hypocrisy\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Lamenting the explosion of free speech under Musk, Yoel Roth, the former head of \u201cTrust and Safety\u201d who was responsible for censoring The Post, delivered an implied threat to his former employer in an op-ed piece in The New York Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep the censorship regime in place or Twitter will be thrown off Google and Apple\u2019s app marketplace, he wrote, \u201cmaking it more difficult for potential billions of users to obtain Twitter services. This gives Apple and Google enormous power to shape the decisions Twitter makes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roth claims he just wants to prevent \u201chate speech,\u201d but why was it that everyone banned by Twitter was conservative?\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Former Twitter executive Yoel Roth claimed Twitter will be removed from Apple and Google's app stores without censorship.\" class=\"wp-image-24807566\" width=\"411\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=816 822w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=612 616w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=408 411w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=204 205w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/twitter-exec-hunter-biden-stories-quit-01-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\"\/><figcaption>Former Twitter executive Yoel Roth claimed Twitter will be removed from Apple and Google\u2019s app stores without censorship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCorrect,\u201d Musk replied to a tweet observing: \u201cWe don\u2019t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter [because] they were never kicked off in the first place . . . Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk already has reinstated Trump, The Babylon Bee, Project Veritas, psychologist Jordan Peterson, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Libs of TikTok account that merely reposts absurd leftist clips from the video-sharing app TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response you would think Musk had launched the apocalypse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of top Twitter advertisers boycotted the platform in protest, reportedly including Merck, Pfizer, Kellogg, Verizon, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Mills, Musk\u2019s Tesla competitor Volkswagen, General Motors and, ironically, Balenciaga.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No sooner had the multinational fashion brand signaled its virtue, than Balenciaga had to delete its Twitter account after being bombarded with irate messages over its depraved advertising campaign featuring small children holding teddy bears in bondage gear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other not-so-subtle pedophilia messages were embedded in the images, such as a sheaf of papers on a table which, on closer inspection, were court documents about child pornography.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How do you explain that? You launch a $25 million lawsuit against the production company and pretend no Balenciaga executive signed off on the images.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Balenciaga protested against a child-porn-free Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Which raises the question a a lot of people on Twitter have been asking of Roth, the former head of \u201cTrust and Safety\u201d, after he, too, quit the company in protest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why was child porn permitted on Roth\u2019s watch for years and all but eliminated by Musk in a few days? It\u2019s an important question, but the rest of the media is more interested in amplifying his\u00a0threats against Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press tweeted a story claiming \u201conline safety experts predict [Musk reinstating conservatives] will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation\u201d, yet did not quote a single expert and did not carry a byline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You would think AP might have been more careful about spreading unfounded nonsense after nearly starting World War III the previous week with a false report that Russian missiles had hit Poland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s infamous \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>\u201d reporter Taylor Lorenz penned a piece last week claiming that Musk was \u201copening the gates of hell . . . to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least she quoted some humans, even though they were far left hysterics and trans activist Alejandra Caraballo, who tweets obsessively as @esqueer to get conservatives kicked off Twitter and demand that the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe should \u201cnever know peace again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?w=683\" alt=\"Musk said his goal is to make Twitter a &quot;forum for the peaceful exchange of views.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-24807587\" width=\"338\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=676 676w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=507 507w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=338 338w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=169 169w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-tweets-04-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\"\/><figcaption>Musk said his goal is to make Twitter a \u201cforum for the peaceful exchange of views.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Baron Capital via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Right on cue, Antifa accounts which previously were free to dox conservatives and organize violent riots, called for arson attacks on Tesla locations in response to being banned from Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All the anti-Twitter \u201cexperts\u201d agreed that the ultimate control of Musk will be for Apple and Apple and Google to remove Twitter\u2019s app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s response was to declare he will just \u201cmake an alternative phone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is no right-winger. A libertarian who says he voted for Joe Biden at the last election, he responded to criticism by tweeting: \u201cAs a reminder, I was a significant supporter of the Obama-Biden presidency and (reluctantly) voted for Biden over Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut freedom of speech is the bedrock of a strong democracy and must take precedence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy preference for the 2024 presidency is someone sensible and centrist. I had hoped that would the case for the Biden administration but have been disappointed so far.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His goal is \u201ca trusted digital town square, where a wide range of views are tolerated, provided people don\u2019t break the law or spam. For example, any incitement to violence will result in account suspension . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter will be a forum for the peaceful exchange of views.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In fact, since Musk took over and fired half the workforce, including most of the censorship \u2014 err, \u201cmoderation\u201d \u2014 team, he has published stats indicating there are more users and less hate speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Mistake_to_delete_Don\"><\/span>\u2018Mistake\u2019 to delete Don\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Musk also said banning Trump was a \u201cgrave mistake\u201d since there had been \u201cno violation of the law or terms of service. Deplatforming a sitting President undermined public trust in Twitter for half of America.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He gets it, but is now bracing for the mother of all attacks, because he is removing the censorship that has been a source of the left\u2019s newfound power in recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won\u2019t give up controlling the narrative easily,\u201d he tweeted over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-17.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden hinted at a future investigation into Elon Musk and his &quot;cooperation and\/or technical relationships with other countries.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-24807560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-17.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-17.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/joe-biden-17.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden hinted at a future investigation into Elon Musk and his \u201ccooperation and\/or technical relationships with other countries.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember Biden\u2019s triumphal first press conference after the midterms? He issued a pointed warning to Musk that his administration would be investigating him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Elon Musk\u2019s cooperation and\/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at whether or not he is doing anything inappropriate,\u201d Biden said when asked by a useful reporter if the new Twitter owner is a national security threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside the fact that the comment rather lacked self-awareness from someone about to be investigated by Congress over the inappropriateness of millions of dollars given to his son and brother by China and \u201cother countries\u201d which \u201cpaid to play\u201d when he was vice president, it was an odd priority for the president\u2019s first pronouncement after losing the House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk in return has promised he will make public all the details around The Post\u2019s censorship by Twitter over the Hunter Biden laptop story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is necessary to restore public trust,\u201d he tweeted last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amen and Godspeed.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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