Earlier today we told you about Elon Musk calling massive “projection” on the Associated Press for their story about Twitter misinformation citing “online safety experts”:
New Twitter owner Elon Musk said he is granting "amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. https://t.co/aZ0NyUP7Fp
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 24, 2022
Didn’t the AP recently fire a reporter for passing along some serious “misinformation” about a missile that landed in Poland? Maybe they should sit out the “misinformation” finger-pointing for a while.
In any case, at issue is Musk saying he’ll grant “amnesty” for some accounts that had been suspended under previous management:
New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.
The billionaire’s announcement came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” The yes vote was 72%.
Axios also got in on the act, except they rightly referred to the “experts” as “activists” and are claiming that lives could be at risk:
Activists warn lives at risk over Elon Musk's amnesty plans for suspended Twitter accounts https://t.co/z3hmuv7FIj
— Axios (@axios) November 25, 2022
Glenn Greenwald has seen just about enough:
BREAKING! Allowing those disliked by liberals to be heard on the internet will *literally* kill many people (😱), warn the most neurotic, mentally unwell, petulant petty-tyrants who have declared themselves "online safety experts" and are now called that by liberal media outlets. https://t.co/NwhVeMowT5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 25, 2022
The panic from the “experts” (aka “activists”) because they’re no longer able to control the narrative on Twitter is palpable.
Taylor Lorenz miraculously found 3 or 4 people more neurotic, clearly unstable, and censorship-happy than she, bestowed them with fake expertise titles, and now the WPost is blasting out her alarmist asylum-worthy babbling to millions. #journalismhttps://t.co/46SAor33Un
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 25, 2022
Weren’t we all already supposed to be dead from either climate change, the end of net neutrality and/or Trump being reinstated to Twitter?
This is one of Lorenz’s Twitter friends – just look at tweets of hers to see how unhinged and disturbed she is – whom the WPost cites as an expert to warn Musk's mildly greater free speech is “existentially dangerous for various marginalized communities” https://t.co/yd8QtlDXl9
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 25, 2022
Yep, and they couldn’t make it more obvious if they tried.
Lorenz’s article quotes her unwell Harvard friend, a partisan goon at Media Matters, a UCLA professor whose pro-censorship insanity is off-the-charts, but not one person who thinks censorship is dangerous.
Including the other side is “journalism,” which is not what Taylor does. pic.twitter.com/yCOszSPSMy
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 25, 2022
Those are the kinds of people others in the media consider “online safety experts.”
Liberal tears taste so sweet https://t.co/rbvp6NVeCt
— Kurt Kapusuzoğlu (@KurtNoKap) November 25, 2022
And there have been a lot more of them since Musk bought Twitter.
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