Below is my column this week on the campaign to coerce Elon Musk to restore the censorship system at Twitter. The campaign against Twitter now involves the full allied forces of the anti-free speech movement: the government, corporations, Democratic politicians, the media, and, of course, celebrities. However, it is an alliance that has proven overwhelming in the past but this unstoppable force has met an immovable object in Musk. It is total war in the beltway but Musk has yet to fully deploy his greatest weapon: free speech.
Here is the column:
Washington this week is in full wartime footing. No, it’s not over the Russian invasion of Ukraine or North Korean missiles or even Chinese expansionism. It is about Twitter and the threat of Elon Musk to restore free speech protections to social media.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has emerged as the bellicose general rallying others to the “censor or die” pressure campaign against Twitter.
The problem is that citizens are flocking to Twitter and signing up in record numbers. They want more, not less, free speech. The over two million new sign-ups per day represent a 66% increase over the same period last year, according to figures released by Musk.
A reporter this week was so alarmed that she asked the White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the concern that millions are still signing up at Twitter and demanded to know who is “keeping an eye on this” for possible federal action.
Unable to convince users to embrace censorship, Clinton and others are pressuring corporations and foreign governments to deter Musk from restoring free speech. Since users are embracing the new Twitter, the campaign has focused on preventing them from signing up by removing the app from the Apple and Google stores. In the meantime, Apple is joining the boycott by withholding advertising revenue to coerce Musk to reverse his free-speech pledge.
Musk, however, is sitting on the ultimate weapon to bring this war to an end: free speech itself. However, it will require more than rhetorical recriminations like Musk asking why Apple executives “hate free speech in America?”
The fact is that these media and political figures are becoming more and more alarmed as Musk threatens to release files on the past censorship of stories like the Hunter Biden laptop.
Musk has reason to wonder why Apple CEO Tim Cook would join this anti-free speech campaign. The reason is as obvious as it is craven. These boycotts are not about corporations or shareholders. If anything, they are more likely to diminish profits. It is about the executives themselves. Many are allies of figures like Clinton. Others are yielding to these demands to avoid being attacked or tagged by the left.
Cook is betting that, while the public wants more free speech, enough will also want Apple watches. Moreover, Apple has acquired the market power of a true monopoly. It does not have a serious competitor and, as shown with such attacks on sites like Parler, it can literally strangle the life out of competing or disfavored products.
The real question is why the political, business, and media establishment is ramping up this campaign. The answer is power. With President Biden and Democratic senators supporting investigations, the message could not be clearer: proceed at your own peril. That message was brought home by Politico’s Sam Stein when he warned Musk that it is “[a]lways risky to attack members of congress. Especially risky with Dems assured of Senate power.”
For years, Democratic politicians and their allies have exercised an enormous degree of control over political discourse through allies in the media and social media.
The problem is that censorship only works if it is complete. If there are alternative sources for information, free speech is like water . . . it finds a way out. That is why Democratic members pressured cable carriers to drop Fox News, the most popular cable news network on television. (For the record, I appear as a Fox News legal analyst). Having an echo chamber on every other news channel means little if alternative views or stories are just a click away.
The same is true for print media. With the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and a few other newspapers, the effort to kill stories like the Hunter Biden laptop could not be completely successful. The truth found a way out and now the same outlets that peddled the false “Russian disinformation” claim are admitting that the laptop is authentic.
The threat is an even greater on social media, the area of greatest success for those seeking to control political discourse. If Musk carries through on his pledge, the public will have a free speech alternative and they are already speaking loudly by signing up with the company in record numbers. Despite a creepy Facebook advertising campaign to convince the public to embrace censorship, it has not worked.
The public is not buying. They are buying Free Twitter.
So, the only way to regain control is to prevent people from getting the app or threaten to force Twitter into insolvency. The problem is Musk, an eccentric billionaire who is not easy to intimidate.
Musk now stands against a massive alliance of governments, corporations, celebrities, and politicians. He has only the public and free speech on his side.
He needs to use both.
Musk cannot remain on defense and just take political and economic hits. The campaign is growing because the risk is growing for these various interests.
The way to end this is simple: release everything related to the company’s massive censorship operation. This is an effort to force Musk not only to resume censorship but to protect the censors. So, open the files. Allow the public to see not just communications on censorship (including subjects beyond Hunter Biden) but how Twitter may have used verification, throttling, algorithms, or other methods to control speech. The company does not have to release codes or potentially damaging information to reveal the back channel communications, deliberations, and targeting choices.
By embracing total transparency, Musk can force Apple and other companies to face the ugly realities of censorship. The anti-free speech alliance has declared total war on Twitter. It is time for Twitter to get into this fight and realize that free speech is not just its guiding principle but its greatest weapon.
When Musk threatened to restore free speech protections, Hillary Clinton and others went public to “Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.”
So be it.
The Musk purchase has forced people to pick sides in this fight for free speech. However, Musk can leave the dogs at home and just unleash the truth.
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„If the truth shall kill them, let them die.“ — Immanuel Kant
I’m good with that.
The last two guys who were effective in calling out the sins of the regime were forced to become a Russian citizen and spent years sleeping in an extra room at the Ecuadorian Embassy. Of course, that was better than having someone “help” you suddenly commit suicide.
Let’s hope Elon fares better.
Musk has one thing that neither of them had. A lot of money.
And he’s WEF. We shall see what he’s actually up to soon enough. MAYBE it’s good. Ain’t holding my breath.
When the dawn patrol gotta tell you twice
They gonna do it with a shotgun
Yes I’m cashing in this ten-cent life
For another one.
great song from a great album
and yes, Elon is a psyop, he’s all for free speech unless you’re Alex Jones
“And he’s WEF”
But another ‘variant’. Of Gun registration.
Snowden is NO hero, he’s just Brennan’s Stooge. Once CIA always CIA, all he really did
was let a bunch of spy programs loose from the NSA to the rest of the dam world.
Now anybody can hack, spy, blackmail, turn a camera or mic on and steel with state of the art software.
“years sleeping in an extra room at the Ecuadorian Embassy.”
Julienned. And assuaged.
So … was he there for an assangenation?
Guy who works for FoxNews with an article championing free speech.
It’s not Tim Cook, shithead that he is. When the jack-booted thugs tell you “it would be a shame if anything happened to your loved ones….” You get the picture.
I thought if I killed my family first, I would be free!
His words describe the means of the Bolsheviks. Fascists realized what was necessary to counter them and their poisons. The strength of unity needed to resist and counter are only going to be found in race and religion.
“The strength of unity needed to resist and counter are only going to be found in race and religion.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Wow, do people getting killed by soft-autonomous Tesla’s making the passengers accomplices to AI murder, really think Musk cares? These people have been Neuralinked to the Tunnel Boring depths of Mr. Needfuls, SolarCity pie in the sky bullshit. Musk is not your friend. It’s a big club and we ain’t in it. Blue Check Verified Vaccine Passport. I wonder what Lucious think of Balenciaga?? Torture Toys for Adults…..reech
Elon Musk Says Twitter ‘Interfered In Elections’
Musk called his efforts to restore free speech to Twitter “a battle for the future of civilization” in a Monday post on Twitter.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/30/musk-twitter-elections-censorship/
A lot of what they say seems to leave us out of the equation- humans who are not part of this collective borg that lives in their infantile fantasies of becoming gods.
Trust isn’t something that you can reboot. You lose trust, it’s gone. Doesn’t matter if Twitter was run by George Washington brought back from the grave. Twitter is a like a streetwalker trying to convince you she’s a virgin. No one is that stupid, not even the really, really stupid people. They may continue to use it, but trust it? Never going to happen, not for anyone on either side of the debate.
And if Hillary told the world she is a virgin half would believe her.
well. Pretty much a given that she was a master of the mouth hug. at some point.
It has been my experience that trust CAN be rebuilt. The problem is that it takes twice as long to repair as it did to build in the first place…and than much effort is just asking too much from most people, because people SUCK.
The first victim of tyranny is free speech. The First Amendment ‘free speech’ was to protect the press from government retaliation from telling the truth. Julian found it is toothless. Twitter has confirmed it.
Apple is under duress. Virtually all Fortune 500 firms have interlocking Board of Directors dominated by international bankers appointed by BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street. While algorithms of risk//profit can improve profit, they cannot explain the rapid growth. Mucho money was poured in—that was laundered by Rothschild globalist financiers. Ref. https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/#_ftn3 FEDERAL RESERVE FOR DUMMIES
“Musk has a lot of money.” you say ? A couple of years ago he was sleeping in his car. He has a genetic background.
While I’m no great fan of Elon, I do know when somebody has got the ball and is running for the goal, YOU BLOCK. The enemy of MY enemy, is MY friend. Trust but verify. He’s hasn’t disappointed yet.
Just imagine all the stuff that is on those servers he now own’s. the guy literally bought a 44 Billion dollar crime scene. It’s like a time bomb that’s gonna blow one way or another, he might as well let it loose and expose them all. Cui bono, who benefits ? Well everyone but the very people named in the article, Musk benefits for sure, twitter will also benefit, Congress ? NOPE, Senate ? NOPE, how about Pedo Peter ? NOPE , Clinton ? NOPE. How about all the pedo accounts he’s taken down ? How about the DM’s associated with those accounts ? Child trafficking much ? Freedom on speech ? the TRUTH getting to the masses on one of the biggest formally brainwashing captured bullhorns ?
Yep, he’s gonna let it rip. Let the chips fall where they may. Hopefully it leads to a lot of resignations of some very high up people and maybe some arrests. Just the Election interference issue alone is a whole nother level up on the Treason that’s been taking place and Twitter was a major tool to cover it all up.
Even if it does come out now, I think people won’t care. And it all is, the veil is currently lifting.
he’d best be careful. if they decide to come after twitter corp for past crimes, it is the current incarnation that will pay
“Apple is under duress”
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/alex-gorsky-joins-apples-board-of-directors/
Notice ANY ‘familiar’ names?
https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Apple_Board_of_Directors
The globalist overlords are apoplectic Elon Musk would go against the Silicon Valley/government/globalist tide and discontinue the censorship of information, demonizing deplatforming and disparaging those who seek the truth. Big Tech along with Big Pharma, the monopolistic media and the globalist technocrats are terrified their bogus COVID narrative is unraveling and the people are waking up to how we have been /are being bamboozled, hoodwinked and duped about COVID, gene altering injections, the economy, the elections and Ukraine. The last thing these miscreants want is us to have the ability to freely communicate and post our experiences, opinions and thoughts about our world and what the globalists are doing to us.
No they aren’t. “They” have figured out truth doesn’t matter. They can control populations whether Chinese or European or North American. China with near 100% government bs locked down masked and vaxxed. We did the same thing regardless of our freedom of speech. You just need the bs, doesn’t need to be 100%. It turns out it doesn’t matter, child sacrifice? True? False? Who cares…Next. Once peoples cell phones turn yellow or red or purple, people will obey the phone. They really will walk themselves into a concentration Quarantine camp. Even if they know the truth that they are never coming out.
This Musk / Twitter palava is reminiscent of the Trump / Presidency, which turned out to be a case of much ado about nothing..
Also, as was the case with Trump, if the system didn’t want Musk ‘owning’ Twitter, they would have made it impossible. He had to borrow billions to do it, remember? Indeed, to shut him down, all they’d have to do is call in some loans, or cancel a license or two..
The whole thing is just another act in their great reset kabuki drama. While ‘everyone’ is screeching about muh free speech (fancy such a thing is even up for debate..), the big boys are implementing pandemic treaties, burying questionable election results, sweeping FTX under the carpet, shipping more and even more destructive weapons to a failed (terrorist) state and ignoring all those poor unfortunates who are dropping all over the place due to their clot shot, etc..
And besides, free speech is just incriminating evidence now.
The place is getting lousy with squirrels.
Shut him down? How ’bout he go buy an island and move the whole operation there-just like pirate radio. Sure, he might need to buy some naval and air assets for protection-or maybe he’ll protect it all from space. The guy isn’t burdened by outmoded thinking like most of the betters trying to take the country down.
Musk is just a diversion. He didn’t get that kind of money without a lot of help. He is not going to bite the hand that fed him. Trump is the same just not as rich.
According to The First news, the liberals that fled to Mastodon are now reporting each other as they no longer have conservatives to report. Hilarious. They just can’t stop complaining or stand each other either. It is getting so bad many liberal that fled Twitter are now coming back to Twitter to avoid getting censored!.