The fact that Musk put up to a vote whether Trump should get his account back tells me he neither understands free speech nor gives a shit about it. Someone's right to speech should not depend on whether a lot of people agree they should have that right. Remember free speech rights exist to protect unpopular speech, not popular speech. By definition something that is mainstream, popular and establishment approved does not need protection.
See, this is what happens when you live on a society where peoples' right to free speech (among other things) is not really guaranteed but contingent upon the mood, largess and whims of a billionaire parasite that everyone has to tip toe around and whose ass they have to kiss to see if he would pretty please be so kind and generous as to let them freely express themselves on what is essentially the digital version of a public square. That this space would quickly fall under the whims of a narcissistic psychopath drunk with power was not hard to predict. Just look at the way he is treating his employees, like a total tyrant, rude, abusive, entitled to their labor, ordering them around as if they were nothing but insects to be crushed under his feet if they do not agree to his demands and blackmail. That is who Musk is. That is how all billionaires are.
Musk is not interested in upholding free speech in any sense of the word. Just look at how in the first few days he's gone shadow banning or disabling accounts for making fun of him. He is an entitled, self serving, power hungry prick who is bored and who acquired Twitter, which to him is nothing more than an ant farm, to live out his wildest fantasies of control over people. It is obvious that as the psychopath that he is, he takes great pleasure in having that kind of a power at his fingertips and where he can snap a finger and just ban, delete, shadow ban, reinstate, fire and hire and order anyone around at a moment's notice and as the mood strikes him. He reminds me of Q in Star Trek who would always say how much the universe is his backyard. When rights are not guaranteed and upheld by the government, these kinds of damaged and dangerous psychos with a lot of money will fill the void. And lots of people who don't know any better will be grateful for it.
"Humanity to him is a small animal caught in a trap to be tormented. His pleasure is the giving of pain. And from this he feels the same sense of fulfillment most humans get from a kiss or an embrace. He is a caricature. All of them are. Without their masks, they are all caricatures."
The star trek character is a clever way to normalize psychopathology.
Hollywood is the biggest mind control keyboard engine the state gets to play on.
Its warped men's minds so deeply down into their brain stem with the idea of might makes right. It creates two types of people the state and elite want...docile compliant serfs and psycopaths to manage and control them to be exploited as a resource. And everyone bolts the TV one way lie machine to their wall. And they stare at it night after night being mentally poisoned by it.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~J Krishnamurti
I actually think the television does more lasting damage, for the simple reason that it is ubiquitous and unrelenting propaganda. Normalizing the inevitability of the universal bottom line. Every benefit has a cost; want that car? Sure you do, and you can drive home today for 4.75% over 5 years. Want to watch your favorite show? Then sit there and watch the commercials.
By handing the television broadcasting rights completely over to advertisers, the public is orphaned by the state, and molded and perverted by corporate agents who sow avarice, lust, depression and self-loathing. And, of course, God. God gets tax-free total access to the airwaves because it is the path of distraction and emotionalism.
This may no longer apply, but the USA was the only developed country to completely hand the airwaves, which are legally bound to operate “in the public interest,” over to private profiteers. And look what greed hath wrought!
Great point. It's been so ubiquitous our entire lives we don't realize its just another method of control by the Elite class. As is the long hard daily labor most people are subjected to a good part of their lives - as if this were an absolute necessity for life to continue.
Purposeful withholding abundance is part of that control...completely controlling all resources and metering them out with ever increasing costs is a clear economic enslavement policy while inflating the money supply through financial manipulation and corruption. And wages have stagnated sines the 70s unions have been busted if not fully corrupted and cost of living is three times higher now than it was just three years ago. and we have a government and media that's in full collusion with this fascism not to mention all main stream social media public commons also in league with the new censorship tyranny playing out.. this i have now video proof of..
What is sad is technology - especially robotics could reduce a lot of this slave labor (IMO) but instead the gains made in productivity are only being funneled to make the already obscenely rich, even richer. The kind of dystopia one used to only see in Sci Fi flicks.
I really think these people at the helm are so psychopath now with their God Complex that they will usher in the very dystopian future we all fear. It's obvious that want two class of people..the managers and the slaves.. The guards and the prison work force..
There was an article in forbs about counting the USA laws..they tried three times and failed there was just too many of them to count and concluded every one is a criminal.
And every day these "law makers" work to make more of them.
Truly we are living in an open air insane asylums.
Indeed..you seem well able to see past the chrade. I commend you because I think it takes a certain type of intellectual courage to see past the curtains they have errected to obscure the wizard behind the blue screen.
I always say..I don't take arsnic just to know how it tastes either..you have to know better then to let yourself be conned. The tv one way lie machine has warped mans perceptions of realty.
I was just in a conversation about Hollywood and the controversy around statements made by certain famous people about the predominant roll of certain groups who have the most power there.
If you talk about the power to shut you up about talking about the power to shut you up they will wield that power and control of society to shut you up.
The deep state have used hollywood celebrities who have been brainwashed by the propaganda and are to shallow to realize they have been brainwashed - the deep state has used many of these empty minds to further the Elite agenda - which usually is more war, more making "The Other" the enemy such as Russia and China - and endless propaganda how the US cannot afford what so many other countries enjoy: universal health care, decent jobs with Unions, not to mention "Freedom of Speech". I won't name any celebrity names here - but we all know many of these deep state tools by now.
It's not as if Hollywood hasn't been a tool in the past. Joe McCarthy comes to mind and the blacklisting. They blacklisted Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin!
Exactly..it's now just more sophisticated.. And look at the gatekeepers even infiltrating here..like this CK guy. Their methods are designed to posion the well of free thought and discussion.. Stealth fascist for the state. You would think these people would grow up out of their duplicity but they never do..they simply honed the technique and pride themselves on the ability to be verbaly skilled and manipulative.. They all come from the abusive personality mindsets,, This is what they celebrate in life exploiting and tricking others for their own personal ego and monatory gains.
That's the Musk-eteers we are going to be suffering from now on.
The Shadow Banning is a time trap. I don't appreciate having been suspended but in retrospect, while I helped many individuals, I was wasting my time shadow banned on Twitter. Not only were my Tweets limited for view by others, I didn't have as much in my stream from other people. And the speed of info can be party like addictive.
Admitting that shadow banning is the plan is admitting that free speech without censorship is not the plan.
I think I stopped using twitter about a year ago. Or at least it will be coming up on a year. Why give power to the propaganda and allow them to fuck you whenever they feel like it? They do the same thing on youtube. They shut people down, there is no real recourse - just a kangeroo form you fill out, and then they treat you like dirt if you try to even reasonably argue your case with them. A Totalitarian state - and always justifying their censorship in the name of "Freedom" or "Protection of the Public Good". It's textbook authoritarianism - and the less one can avoid participating in the propaganda - the better off you and everyone else will be. Freedom has nothing to do with what twitter, youtube and "Do No Evil" Google tells you - these corporations and the people who work for them, are not promoting freedom or truth. Nothing of the sort.
*Note - re: ""You have free speech! You can say whatever you want, as long as you say it alone in a soundproof room."" - The room better be a grounded Faraday cage if you are in the US because they can spy on everyone with mini-drones and use it in ways other than a legal court of law to punish you.
"I care that people are still banned from the platform for questioning western allegations of Russian war crimes and voicing unauthorized opinions about the war in Ukraine. I care that people are still banned for questioning vaccines and Covid policies which affect everyone. I care that media from governments the US doesn't like are censored and suppressed while its reporters are made to carry "state-affiliated media" labels that media personnel from US-aligned states don't have. I care that mass purges of accounts are virtually always directed at people from US-targeted nations."
Dang, these are what I was hoping for from Mush, (misspell intended). What a disappointment!
The undeleting of a handful of celebrity accounts amounts to nothing as we all know exactly what their point of view is and the context of what they will post!
In the U.K. legislation is being passed preventing reporting on anything that will ‘embarrass’ the government which is about as wide, ‘carte blanche’ statement you can get with no legal definition. Almost matching Musk’s use of “negative. It is totally open to interpretation and in fact really means ‘you can’t post anything we don’t like. As the government embarrasses itself daily without any help and even constructive feedback can be seen as negative. It paves the way for further control and even greater censorship than we have seen before.
By comparing the ‘reach’ of Twitter to be comparable to that of the rest of the internet shows Musk’s true megalomaniac colours. People search on the Twitter platform for certain topics, mainly current political issues, as say they would for a medical matter on ‘Healthunlocked’ or a similar health related platform. This is just a strategy from preventing independent free thinkers to come together and share uncensored views. As Caitlin said Musk is a billionaire from the American Defence Complex, he will not allow uncensored debate on the proxy war in the Ukraine or anything that might damage profit margins. I believe if you look closely you can just see his ankles sticking out of Trumps arse!
It is not trump he serves..Trump has always been used by the state and its affiliate alphabet agencies. Its the MIC musk serves as you rightfully pointed out..
Trump is "free" to entertain the colosseum of bread and circuss.
Real critical thought and opinion will still be censored ..this move is designed to make the appearance of free speech and rangel in the trumpers to musk side as he pie pippers them to the will of the state.
It's funny, the priorities of the owned. They don't miss the arguments against the empire. They get triggered because Trump is back, as if they're somehow forced to follow him. I keep expecting logic to prevail. That's how I'm owned.
Musk does not seem to realize he lives on a planet with a biosphere that he's part of, given the things he does (not to mention last I heard having 8 kids). Behind all great wealth lies a great crime, and it's hard to see this any other way, even if our economy is a house of cards (even before CBDC rolls out). Now Musk is discriminating against the poor or anyone not eager to jump into the Twitter Cesspool at $8 a month.
Yeah, it's true that he isn't the first to say this. I remember Brian Stelter saying the exact same words, and didn't expect Musk to say it even if he wasn't going to, say, unban Scott Ritter. (Not that I'm holding my breath, but hypothetically: if Ritter got unbanned one of these days, or Robert Malone, or anyone else previously censored for criticizing the narrative around Ukraine/Covid/whatever the Current Thing was, would that be something you think Musk would deserve credit for? Even a sliver of credit?)
Anyway, as you once wrote, freedom of speech without the freedom to be heard (or "reach") is about as valuable as the right to shout your opinions into an empty hole in the ground.
(I wrote this comment before finishing the article but after doing a CTRL-F for "hole" and thinking "Okay, it isn't there, she didn't repeat the analogy, which means I can do it without being superfluous." And then I got to the "soundproof room" part. I gotta be more patient and read the whole thing more often... 😔)
The reason I'm surprised that he not only thought this was a good idea but actually went and stated it to everyone in those terms is because if he's trying to be different from the jerkoffs who say that then he shouldn't repeat their statement verbatim. Also, if he's only *pretending* to be different from those jerkoffs then he *still* shouldn't repeat what they say verbatim, because when he does that it makes the mask slip or maybe fall off altogether.
When Musk's twitter reinstates @glinner Graham Linehan, I might believe he's serious. Anyone who's labeled gender critical was immediately cancelled by the wokeratti. Unfortunately, no one listened to Graham, and he's turned out to be right.
Someone asked me what the "freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach" concept meant. I take it to mean, "On Twitter, no one can see your tweet." Your celebrity nonsensical rants, yes, but not the intelligent and informed tweets of those who don't follow the imperial US line.
Maybe we should create a list of the most high profile and relevant people that were banned and censored people and track which persons have been reinstated as a litmus test.
Funny if you test the nuts and bolts of free speech you discover almost no one really wants it..they all pretend they are protecting you from "misinformation" or in actually the uncomfortable truths. if it serves their own agenda..even on here if you cross certian "lines" they quickly emotionally knee jerk a fascist response to shut you up and demand you praise the emperors new cloths.
Certain topics are taboo. Even asking questions is taboo. Even playing devil's advocate to leach out some truth you are branded with some scarlet letter.
The emotional investment into the great lies of our times has turned people's minds into mush.
If you have no foundation of integrity as your guide you have no truth or if you don't stand for something you will fall for anything is so very true today.. The lack of personal integrity and the intellectual courage to know why that's important is totaly lost on this Hollywood soaked mind controlled civilisation that's turning more clown world every day basking in convoluted thought and western centric mind control propaganda.. They see it outside themselves only but they think it's coming out of everyone else outside their tribe cult or group bubble , but fail to see it within.
They will pretend to defend against fascism but rush into fascism as soon as they hear a truth they don't like.
Its fascinating to me how quickly the modern nμmpty will turn on you if you don't toe their line.
Carlin was right, now im also cheering on for the asteroid, or a well placed nuke.
Most of these fμcking people are not worth saving. Your lack of integrity as human beings proves it.
Lol...It just occured to me you took the "not worth saving" personally as directed at you and your type...a little freudian slippage.. Mention of your types lack of integrity was not the return challenge because you allready know thats true. Just that your not worth saving..
Fascinating!
No one can be insulted by anything but a truth. You have to resonate with the critique to be insulted cause it's true..
You keep proving all you are is a manipulative dishonest actor who thinks your clever with linguistic prowess so you pat yourself in your little back for turning a phrase and quoting kofka or whover the fuck you do.
I'm sure you read the art of war and have embraced all it demands of your pedestrian mentality.
How would I know or find out if I've been shadow banned? It seems odd that none of my Tweets have been retweeted for months now, after I've been Tweeting lots of anti-Empire Tweets from all the "bad guys" (Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Mutlipolarista, Bob Scheer's site, Consortium News, Chris Hedges, Caitlin, Real News, et al). I also Tweet my own content, which used to generate retweets. I've lost about 20 followers, but used to be retweeted on a regular basis. Now it's just crickets.
Is there some way to know? Like an official "drone kill list" or something?
it's as if you actually read my comments. I get to speak through you..I'm shadow baned and canceled on every single social media platform. I have said the very words you use to describe this phoney musk theater act of freeing speach on the public commons. The state will never allow me a voice or a vote that has any reach or meaning because I dare challenge their fascist bent. .What musk said about reach is as clear a fascist comment I have ever heard and comparing Twitter to all the others as justification is just saying he will continue the policy of fascism and tyranny by state and corporate decree...he admitted it plainly enough. As I predicated. Twiiter will remain the arbitrarily applied "community standards" of rich people not the public voice of reason or debate..
We are as doomed as an asteroid on a collision course with us and no Tony Stark exists in reality to save us..but Hollywood sure likes to drive home the fantasyland to the dumb gullible public so they never "look up",,,, that other pile of bovine excitement the cult of personality dwellers sold to the moron majority.
The fact that Musk put up to a vote whether Trump should get his account back tells me he neither understands free speech nor gives a shit about it. Someone's right to speech should not depend on whether a lot of people agree they should have that right. Remember free speech rights exist to protect unpopular speech, not popular speech. By definition something that is mainstream, popular and establishment approved does not need protection.
See, this is what happens when you live on a society where peoples' right to free speech (among other things) is not really guaranteed but contingent upon the mood, largess and whims of a billionaire parasite that everyone has to tip toe around and whose ass they have to kiss to see if he would pretty please be so kind and generous as to let them freely express themselves on what is essentially the digital version of a public square. That this space would quickly fall under the whims of a narcissistic psychopath drunk with power was not hard to predict. Just look at the way he is treating his employees, like a total tyrant, rude, abusive, entitled to their labor, ordering them around as if they were nothing but insects to be crushed under his feet if they do not agree to his demands and blackmail. That is who Musk is. That is how all billionaires are.
Musk is not interested in upholding free speech in any sense of the word. Just look at how in the first few days he's gone shadow banning or disabling accounts for making fun of him. He is an entitled, self serving, power hungry prick who is bored and who acquired Twitter, which to him is nothing more than an ant farm, to live out his wildest fantasies of control over people. It is obvious that as the psychopath that he is, he takes great pleasure in having that kind of a power at his fingertips and where he can snap a finger and just ban, delete, shadow ban, reinstate, fire and hire and order anyone around at a moment's notice and as the mood strikes him. He reminds me of Q in Star Trek who would always say how much the universe is his backyard. When rights are not guaranteed and upheld by the government, these kinds of damaged and dangerous psychos with a lot of money will fill the void. And lots of people who don't know any better will be grateful for it.
"Humanity to him is a small animal caught in a trap to be tormented. His pleasure is the giving of pain. And from this he feels the same sense of fulfillment most humans get from a kiss or an embrace. He is a caricature. All of them are. Without their masks, they are all caricatures."
The star trek character is a clever way to normalize psychopathology.
Hollywood is the biggest mind control keyboard engine the state gets to play on.
Its warped men's minds so deeply down into their brain stem with the idea of might makes right. It creates two types of people the state and elite want...docile compliant serfs and psycopaths to manage and control them to be exploited as a resource. And everyone bolts the TV one way lie machine to their wall. And they stare at it night after night being mentally poisoned by it.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~J Krishnamurti
I actually think the television does more lasting damage, for the simple reason that it is ubiquitous and unrelenting propaganda. Normalizing the inevitability of the universal bottom line. Every benefit has a cost; want that car? Sure you do, and you can drive home today for 4.75% over 5 years. Want to watch your favorite show? Then sit there and watch the commercials.
By handing the television broadcasting rights completely over to advertisers, the public is orphaned by the state, and molded and perverted by corporate agents who sow avarice, lust, depression and self-loathing. And, of course, God. God gets tax-free total access to the airwaves because it is the path of distraction and emotionalism.
This may no longer apply, but the USA was the only developed country to completely hand the airwaves, which are legally bound to operate “in the public interest,” over to private profiteers. And look what greed hath wrought!
Great point. It's been so ubiquitous our entire lives we don't realize its just another method of control by the Elite class. As is the long hard daily labor most people are subjected to a good part of their lives - as if this were an absolute necessity for life to continue.
Purposeful withholding abundance is part of that control...completely controlling all resources and metering them out with ever increasing costs is a clear economic enslavement policy while inflating the money supply through financial manipulation and corruption. And wages have stagnated sines the 70s unions have been busted if not fully corrupted and cost of living is three times higher now than it was just three years ago. and we have a government and media that's in full collusion with this fascism not to mention all main stream social media public commons also in league with the new censorship tyranny playing out.. this i have now video proof of..
What is sad is technology - especially robotics could reduce a lot of this slave labor (IMO) but instead the gains made in productivity are only being funneled to make the already obscenely rich, even richer. The kind of dystopia one used to only see in Sci Fi flicks.
I really think these people at the helm are so psychopath now with their God Complex that they will usher in the very dystopian future we all fear. It's obvious that want two class of people..the managers and the slaves.. The guards and the prison work force..
There was an article in forbs about counting the USA laws..they tried three times and failed there was just too many of them to count and concluded every one is a criminal.
And every day these "law makers" work to make more of them.
Truly we are living in an open air insane asylums.
Indeed..you seem well able to see past the chrade. I commend you because I think it takes a certain type of intellectual courage to see past the curtains they have errected to obscure the wizard behind the blue screen.
I always say..I don't take arsnic just to know how it tastes either..you have to know better then to let yourself be conned. The tv one way lie machine has warped mans perceptions of realty.
I was just in a conversation about Hollywood and the controversy around statements made by certain famous people about the predominant roll of certain groups who have the most power there.
If you talk about the power to shut you up about talking about the power to shut you up they will wield that power and control of society to shut you up.
So many people are under its spell.
And now most don't even know it.
The deep state have used hollywood celebrities who have been brainwashed by the propaganda and are to shallow to realize they have been brainwashed - the deep state has used many of these empty minds to further the Elite agenda - which usually is more war, more making "The Other" the enemy such as Russia and China - and endless propaganda how the US cannot afford what so many other countries enjoy: universal health care, decent jobs with Unions, not to mention "Freedom of Speech". I won't name any celebrity names here - but we all know many of these deep state tools by now.
The deep state claims it's not real and anyone who thinks it is is a conspiracy loon..
Mind control is so deep now most people don't know it and the ones that do are either in on the scam or attacked by these people.
Cue the tin foil hat accusations. And all the other methods and tactics to silence anyone seeing through the facades.
It's not as if Hollywood hasn't been a tool in the past. Joe McCarthy comes to mind and the blacklisting. They blacklisted Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/when-charlie-chaplin-was-expelled-from-the-us-for-decades
Exactly..it's now just more sophisticated.. And look at the gatekeepers even infiltrating here..like this CK guy. Their methods are designed to posion the well of free thought and discussion.. Stealth fascist for the state. You would think these people would grow up out of their duplicity but they never do..they simply honed the technique and pride themselves on the ability to be verbaly skilled and manipulative.. They all come from the abusive personality mindsets,, This is what they celebrate in life exploiting and tricking others for their own personal ego and monatory gains.
That's the Musk-eteers we are going to be suffering from now on.
Thumbs up just for the Q reference. :-)
Scott Ritter is still not allowed !!!
Scott Ritter at his best – a must see short video: https://youtu.be/iAhdHIOd-9w
Scott Ritter: Talks German (and US) Government Politics – Nov. 19, 2022
The Shadow Banning is a time trap. I don't appreciate having been suspended but in retrospect, while I helped many individuals, I was wasting my time shadow banned on Twitter. Not only were my Tweets limited for view by others, I didn't have as much in my stream from other people. And the speed of info can be party like addictive.
Admitting that shadow banning is the plan is admitting that free speech without censorship is not the plan.
It is psy op trap, it seems.
I think I stopped using twitter about a year ago. Or at least it will be coming up on a year. Why give power to the propaganda and allow them to fuck you whenever they feel like it? They do the same thing on youtube. They shut people down, there is no real recourse - just a kangeroo form you fill out, and then they treat you like dirt if you try to even reasonably argue your case with them. A Totalitarian state - and always justifying their censorship in the name of "Freedom" or "Protection of the Public Good". It's textbook authoritarianism - and the less one can avoid participating in the propaganda - the better off you and everyone else will be. Freedom has nothing to do with what twitter, youtube and "Do No Evil" Google tells you - these corporations and the people who work for them, are not promoting freedom or truth. Nothing of the sort.
*Note - re: ""You have free speech! You can say whatever you want, as long as you say it alone in a soundproof room."" - The room better be a grounded Faraday cage if you are in the US because they can spy on everyone with mini-drones and use it in ways other than a legal court of law to punish you.
I’d have to agree. It’s positive that he reinstated “some” accounts. But as you correctly point out - that’s not nearly enough.
Adding to that, his policy of “negative” and “hateful” tweets being “demonetized” sounds really concerning.
"I care that people are still banned from the platform for questioning western allegations of Russian war crimes and voicing unauthorized opinions about the war in Ukraine. I care that people are still banned for questioning vaccines and Covid policies which affect everyone. I care that media from governments the US doesn't like are censored and suppressed while its reporters are made to carry "state-affiliated media" labels that media personnel from US-aligned states don't have. I care that mass purges of accounts are virtually always directed at people from US-targeted nations."
Dang, these are what I was hoping for from Mush, (misspell intended). What a disappointment!
The undeleting of a handful of celebrity accounts amounts to nothing as we all know exactly what their point of view is and the context of what they will post!
In the U.K. legislation is being passed preventing reporting on anything that will ‘embarrass’ the government which is about as wide, ‘carte blanche’ statement you can get with no legal definition. Almost matching Musk’s use of “negative. It is totally open to interpretation and in fact really means ‘you can’t post anything we don’t like. As the government embarrasses itself daily without any help and even constructive feedback can be seen as negative. It paves the way for further control and even greater censorship than we have seen before.
By comparing the ‘reach’ of Twitter to be comparable to that of the rest of the internet shows Musk’s true megalomaniac colours. People search on the Twitter platform for certain topics, mainly current political issues, as say they would for a medical matter on ‘Healthunlocked’ or a similar health related platform. This is just a strategy from preventing independent free thinkers to come together and share uncensored views. As Caitlin said Musk is a billionaire from the American Defence Complex, he will not allow uncensored debate on the proxy war in the Ukraine or anything that might damage profit margins. I believe if you look closely you can just see his ankles sticking out of Trumps arse!
It is not trump he serves..Trump has always been used by the state and its affiliate alphabet agencies. Its the MIC musk serves as you rightfully pointed out..
Trump is "free" to entertain the colosseum of bread and circuss.
Real critical thought and opinion will still be censored ..this move is designed to make the appearance of free speech and rangel in the trumpers to musk side as he pie pippers them to the will of the state.
It's funny, the priorities of the owned. They don't miss the arguments against the empire. They get triggered because Trump is back, as if they're somehow forced to follow him. I keep expecting logic to prevail. That's how I'm owned.
And how quick your type are to shove bread and circuss at them.
Musk does not seem to realize he lives on a planet with a biosphere that he's part of, given the things he does (not to mention last I heard having 8 kids). Behind all great wealth lies a great crime, and it's hard to see this any other way, even if our economy is a house of cards (even before CBDC rolls out). Now Musk is discriminating against the poor or anyone not eager to jump into the Twitter Cesspool at $8 a month.
Primary importance to YOU (and your gang) to force people to "see" things your way.
"Freedom of speech but not freedom of reach"
Yeah, it's true that he isn't the first to say this. I remember Brian Stelter saying the exact same words, and didn't expect Musk to say it even if he wasn't going to, say, unban Scott Ritter. (Not that I'm holding my breath, but hypothetically: if Ritter got unbanned one of these days, or Robert Malone, or anyone else previously censored for criticizing the narrative around Ukraine/Covid/whatever the Current Thing was, would that be something you think Musk would deserve credit for? Even a sliver of credit?)
Anyway, as you once wrote, freedom of speech without the freedom to be heard (or "reach") is about as valuable as the right to shout your opinions into an empty hole in the ground.
(I wrote this comment before finishing the article but after doing a CTRL-F for "hole" and thinking "Okay, it isn't there, she didn't repeat the analogy, which means I can do it without being superfluous." And then I got to the "soundproof room" part. I gotta be more patient and read the whole thing more often... 😔)
That saying is as fascist as any other policy.. Not that I'm surprised but again false hope is thrown around to appease the colosseum crowd.
The reason I'm surprised that he not only thought this was a good idea but actually went and stated it to everyone in those terms is because if he's trying to be different from the jerkoffs who say that then he shouldn't repeat their statement verbatim. Also, if he's only *pretending* to be different from those jerkoffs then he *still* shouldn't repeat what they say verbatim, because when he does that it makes the mask slip or maybe fall off altogether.
When Musk's twitter reinstates @glinner Graham Linehan, I might believe he's serious. Anyone who's labeled gender critical was immediately cancelled by the wokeratti. Unfortunately, no one listened to Graham, and he's turned out to be right.
Someone asked me what the "freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach" concept meant. I take it to mean, "On Twitter, no one can see your tweet." Your celebrity nonsensical rants, yes, but not the intelligent and informed tweets of those who don't follow the imperial US line.
Maybe we should create a list of the most high profile and relevant people that were banned and censored people and track which persons have been reinstated as a litmus test.
Funny if you test the nuts and bolts of free speech you discover almost no one really wants it..they all pretend they are protecting you from "misinformation" or in actually the uncomfortable truths. if it serves their own agenda..even on here if you cross certian "lines" they quickly emotionally knee jerk a fascist response to shut you up and demand you praise the emperors new cloths.
Certain topics are taboo. Even asking questions is taboo. Even playing devil's advocate to leach out some truth you are branded with some scarlet letter.
The emotional investment into the great lies of our times has turned people's minds into mush.
If you have no foundation of integrity as your guide you have no truth or if you don't stand for something you will fall for anything is so very true today.. The lack of personal integrity and the intellectual courage to know why that's important is totaly lost on this Hollywood soaked mind controlled civilisation that's turning more clown world every day basking in convoluted thought and western centric mind control propaganda.. They see it outside themselves only but they think it's coming out of everyone else outside their tribe cult or group bubble , but fail to see it within.
They will pretend to defend against fascism but rush into fascism as soon as they hear a truth they don't like.
Its fascinating to me how quickly the modern nμmpty will turn on you if you don't toe their line.
Carlin was right, now im also cheering on for the asteroid, or a well placed nuke.
Most of these fμcking people are not worth saving. Your lack of integrity as human beings proves it.
Lol...It just occured to me you took the "not worth saving" personally as directed at you and your type...a little freudian slippage.. Mention of your types lack of integrity was not the return challenge because you allready know thats true. Just that your not worth saving..
Fascinating!
No one can be insulted by anything but a truth. You have to resonate with the critique to be insulted cause it's true..
How revieling.
You keep proving all you are is a manipulative dishonest actor who thinks your clever with linguistic prowess so you pat yourself in your little back for turning a phrase and quoting kofka or whover the fuck you do.
I'm sure you read the art of war and have embraced all it demands of your pedestrian mentality.
How would I know or find out if I've been shadow banned? It seems odd that none of my Tweets have been retweeted for months now, after I've been Tweeting lots of anti-Empire Tweets from all the "bad guys" (Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Mutlipolarista, Bob Scheer's site, Consortium News, Chris Hedges, Caitlin, Real News, et al). I also Tweet my own content, which used to generate retweets. I've lost about 20 followers, but used to be retweeted on a regular basis. Now it's just crickets.
Is there some way to know? Like an official "drone kill list" or something?
Thanks for furthering my thoughts.
it's as if you actually read my comments. I get to speak through you..I'm shadow baned and canceled on every single social media platform. I have said the very words you use to describe this phoney musk theater act of freeing speach on the public commons. The state will never allow me a voice or a vote that has any reach or meaning because I dare challenge their fascist bent. .What musk said about reach is as clear a fascist comment I have ever heard and comparing Twitter to all the others as justification is just saying he will continue the policy of fascism and tyranny by state and corporate decree...he admitted it plainly enough. As I predicated. Twiiter will remain the arbitrarily applied "community standards" of rich people not the public voice of reason or debate..
We are as doomed as an asteroid on a collision course with us and no Tony Stark exists in reality to save us..but Hollywood sure likes to drive home the fantasyland to the dumb gullible public so they never "look up",,,, that other pile of bovine excitement the cult of personality dwellers sold to the moron majority.