Liberal celebrities and other assorted blue-checks are rallying together in support of Kathy Griffin, whose Twitter account was recently suspended for impersonating Elon Musk. Kathy did nothing wrong! She is stunning and brave! What kind of dictatorship is Elon Musk running over there?! This sort of thing never would’ve happened before Musk took the helm. No sir. This is unprecedented. This is without preceden— oh:
Maybe I’m having a Biden moment, but I don’t recall anyone on the left being outraged over this: pic.twitter.com/Mptz2jMqAr
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 7, 2022
2019: "Twitter banned the account @AOCPress, labeled as a 'parody,' on Monday, apparently because it sounded too much like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., while mocking her."https://t.co/55cK9NBkbP https://t.co/jykO0tjOb2
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 7, 2022
Hmmm … let’s read more about when that happened:
Twitter banned the account @AOCPress, labeled as a “parody,” on Monday, apparently because it sounded too much like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., while mocking her.
The social media giant also suspended the account’s creator, Michael Morrison. It said that while users could create parody accounts, they couldn’t use “misleading account information in order to engage in spamming, abusive, or disruptive behavior including attempts to manipulate the conversations on Twitter.”
“You also may not ‘post duplicative or substantially similar content, replies, or mentions over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account, or create duplicate or substantially similar accounts.’ This account will not be reinstated,” an email from the company read.
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But … but Elon Musk didn’t own Twitter in 2019. Liberals were in charge in 2019. Hey, wait a second …
I don't remember journalists whining about this suspension. I'd wager most of them were in favor of it. https://t.co/gOwh9AVMou
— Chief Impact Officer BT (@back_ttys) November 7, 2022
You know, come to think of it, neither do we.
People who got the Babylon Bee suspended for tweeting jokes they didn't like are now arguing they should be able to impersonate others on twitter.
— Chief Impact Officer BT (@back_ttys) November 7, 2022
Also the same people who got users suspended for tweeting "Learn to Code". https://t.co/RamgqiEIt2
— Chief Impact Officer BT (@back_ttys) November 7, 2022
It’s almost as if the Left is exempt from the rules they expect others to live by.
they are nothing, if not inconsistent, in their selective outrage https://t.co/RMVwtxJlVh
— R T Price (@kemoshabby) November 7, 2022
Will Mark Hamill start a #FreeMichael campaign https://t.co/EnIZkcuPeO
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 7, 2022
Maybe Richard Marx can join him:
Hi. I’m @elonmusk (THIS IS PARODY) and I’m going to suspend Kathy Griffin for a joke the same day I reinstate Kanye West because I’m an antisemitic, homophobic, broken, un-loved prick (NOT parody).
— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) November 7, 2022
Geez.
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