CARTOON OF DUMBEST JOKE, EVER -- Elon's The Biggest Defender Of Your Free Speech!
The examples of Musk’s hypocrisy are so frequent, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
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By Trevor Timm
The Guardian (1/15/24)
Is there anyone in the world who is a bigger hypocrite on free speech than Elon Musk?
I say this as someone who wishes Elon Musk actually cared about free speech. In my opinion, social media companies censor their users too much. The myriad restrictive rules often end up backfiring on those who push for them. The suspension process is often opaque and arbitrary. Ultimately, a public square filled with frank and free exchange of competing views – one that explicitly tilts in favor of allowing more speech on the edges than it bans – is a good thing.
But that’s not what Musk, the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has created. He’s built a system that is the exact opposite of what he espouses, more arbitrary and
Musk has taken what could have been a strong strategy and principle for him – as it is for real advocates for free expression – and turned it into a snake-oil salesman’s marketing scheme.
more opaque than the old Twitter he relentlessly criticized – or Facebook or Instagram or any other social media platform, for that matter. And he uses his power to retaliate against his critics more than anyone this side of Donald Trump.
The latest example happened earlier this week when a group of leftwing journalists and commentators, including the Intercept’s excellent reporter Ken Klippenstein, were mysteriously suspended from Twitter (sorry, I will always refuse to call it “X”) without warning or notice as to why. The only thing all the accounts had in common was they had been critical of Israel’s war in Gaza.
After a sustained outcry, their accounts were eventually restored. Musk claimed, with no proof, it was due to a spam purge which caught real accounts in it. If you want to chalk that up to coincidence, that might make sense in a vacuum. But that’s not even his worst transgression in the past six weeks. …
Trump’s TRUTH Social App LOVED By Vince Vaughn
Editor’s Note: Honestly, comedian impressionist Mike McRae is one of the funniest political satirists in the country. — M. Taylor
The Jimmy Dore Show (1/27/22)
Conservative celebrity Vince Vaughn is positively giddy about Donald Trump’s new social media site, TRUTH Social, raving about the fun he’s having “owning the libs” with fellow celebrity right-wingers like Jon Voigt, Scott Baio, Kid Rock and Kirstie Alley.
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BONUS ELON UPDATE! Dead Teslas Pack Chicago Area Supercharger Station Due To Frigid Temps
Elon, such a genius … at scamming folks. There are also reports that charging up a Tesla now costs more than filling a gas tank. The con continues! When Elon goes green, it’s just about what goes in his wallet.
First Trillionaire Predicted Within 10 Years As Richest Double Their Fortunes In Three
Editor’s Note: While we may not know who the first trillionaire will be, as with all the present day millionaires and billionaires, we already know two things:
They are not “worth” it, and,
They did not “earn” it.
I say we work hard to prevent anyone on the planet from becoming a "trillionnaire" while so many go without food, shelter and health care. It's obscene. Literally.