After Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for some $41 billion, liberals went crazy, foreseeing World War III and the destruction of the planet, a death blow to the free world, and massive globe-altering consequences. The thinking goes that free-speech absolutist Musk buys Twitter and unsuspends Donald Trump; Trump returns to Twitter and reignites his base, carrying him back to the White House in 2024; America plunges into fascism and democracy ends.
Drew Holden has gone back into the archives and compared some of today’s reactions to the reaction when Twitter kicked Trump off the platform. Remember? Twitter was a private company and could do what it wanted.
Okay, some of these are too good.
Quick 🧵 of the wackiest @elonmusk potentially buying Twitter takes vs. what those folks had to say when Twitter booted President Trump. ⤵️
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
From Twitter is a private company “to which the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply” to “this is what oligarchy looks like” in the twinkling of an eye. pic.twitter.com/A8mxUfmMOk
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
Live by the tweets, die by the tweets, @mmpadellan. pic.twitter.com/xXJVtJ8NJ5
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
We sure went quickly from Twitter can do “whatever it wants to” because “that is its freedom of expression” to living in “the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany,” @jeffjarvis. pic.twitter.com/D7at9ZEMfv
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
My personal favorite: Schrodinger’s private corporation. When it does something @maxboot likes, it can’t be questioned.
But when it goes against Boot? Cue political outrage. pic.twitter.com/3R5SB8jTIG
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
A lot of “journalists” arguing for more “content moderation” of the hoi polloi today.
I…don’t really have anything to add to this from @David_Leavitt pic.twitter.com/CxW4RcEwzA
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 14, 2022
Shocking that @JRubinBlogger hasn’t chimed in yet with a tweet that contradicts an earlier tweet…
— Chris Williams (@CMarshallWill) April 14, 2022
The struggle is real for our moral betters!
— A Florida Man🐊🍊 (@AFloridaMan5) April 14, 2022
Oligarch must have been the DNC word of the day today.
I keep seeing all these DNC bots repeating it
— KyPatriot🇺🇲 (@tburtk) April 14, 2022
Twitter is a clown show for viral takes like this and they get massive engagement. I hope Elon can fix this obvious algorithm bias
— Ryan the millennial Dad (@patriotic_giant) April 14, 2022
Related:
MNSBC’s Katy Tur warns there are ‘massive, life and globe-altering consequences’ for ‘letting people run wild’ on Twitter https://t.co/VaTGnVGMSy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 15, 2022
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