Mainstream Media Discover Twitter Censorship

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By Joe Lauria

The New York Times reported Friday that European regulators are considering sanctions against Twitter because it suspended the accounts of three establishment journalists.
 
[Early Saturday morning Musk tweeted that he was lifting the ban after the results of a poll he ran.]
 
The subtitle in the Times story said: “Elon Musk’s moves this week set off a heated debate about complex issues of free speech and online censorship.”
 
Set off? Independent media, like Consortium News, has been debating these issues for a few years now, but the Times just seems to have noticed. Why? Because corporate journalists are now the victims.
 
The story begins:

“Elon Musk’s decision to abruptly suspend several journalists from Twitter sparked an outcry on Friday from First Amendment advocates, threats of sanctions from European regulators, and questions about the social media platform’s future as a gathering place for news and ideas.
 
But as people debated complex, novel issues of free speech and online censorship, the move also underscored the role of a simpler, more enduring element of American life: the press baron.”

These are not “novel” issues. They have been ongoing. Where have the outcries from First Amendment advocates been?
 
Comparing Musk to William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch, the Times said,

“Twitter, albeit a different beast from newspapers and TV networks, enticed journalists by promoting itself as a virtual town square. Now Mr. Musk, despite his stated wish ‘that even my worst critics remain on Twitter,’ is flexing his ownership muscle in seemingly arbitrary ways, appearing to stamp out accounts that personally displease him.”

 


 
A vice president of the European Commission tweeted that Musk’s move violated the E.U.’s Digital Services and Media Freedom Acts, which the Times said “serves as a kind of rule book for moderating online content.” The official tweeted: “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.”
 
One wonders why suspending independent journalists doesn’t cross the same red lines.
 
The journalists from the Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other outlets were banned when Twitter owner Elon Musk said they had endangered his and his family’s safety by reporting on Twitter’s suspension of a site (and apparently linking to that site) that published the geolocation of his private plane.
 
Musk mocked the reaction of the mainstream media, for suddenly discovering free speech on Twitter, especially after it did not protest Twitter suspending The New York Post‘s account after the Hunter Biden laptop story days before the 2016 election.
 


 
Welcome mainstream media to the club. For journalists independent of the corporate media, being banned by Twitter or other platforms is nothing new.

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Funny how Musk got to them.
Now they have to be consistently pro-free speech, not just for their own side.
Way back when obama first took office he tried to target just Fox News on his WH press corps.
ALL the other news people in the room circled the wagons to support Fox News.
Agree with Fox or not, the WaPo, the NYTimes, the NPR, and all the rest said obama was wrong to silence Fox News.
Maybe Musk is reminding newsmen of those days.
They have discovered how the gov’t has steered social media for a few years now.

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Now they have to be consistently pro-free speech, not just for their own side.

Oh, make no mistake, if Musk had censored a conservative, he would have received accolades and been right back in the left’s good graces. He is simply not allowed to tamper with the left’s threats, intimidation and lies.

The LEFT:

Accuse them of doing what you’ve been doing for decades.

Doxxing is the act of a sniveling coward. No surprise that it’s the left that does it. The only purpose is to expose the target to any maniacal useful idiot that might do harm to them. Utterly and totally chickenshit.

But, Twitter is a privately owned company, as the left use to claim as Twitter followed FBI and DNC orders to censor conservatives. So, why do they object now? Well, because THEY aren’t who is deciding what is censored. But, this situation is different. These “journalists” were trying to bring harm upon Musk and his family.

F**k anyone that has an issue with it. They should have stood up against censorship when it was done to protect the corruption of Democrats.

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The Euro Weenie Union is trying to hide the truth from their people about a lot of things

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