I know the WSJ is supposed to be towards the middle of the political bias spectrum, but this article is a one sided hatchet job.
TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:24 am
On Wednesday, Mr. Musk tweeted an image of Ms. Gadde, overlaid with text that repeated allegations that Twitter has a left-wing political bias.
"Alleged" political bias...
Anyone that suggests the majority of the MSM and Silicon Valley don't lean left (sometimes WAY left) immediately loses all credibility. Sorry, but it's been proven countless times, and even if you want to argue the institutions themselves don't, their employees who write articles, spin the news, ban people, decide what to allow, and so on absolutely do...see above.
TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:24 am
and some added racist and sexist messages directed at Ms. Gadde
And Musk received hundreds of death threats from far left morons that this article failed to mention. I wonder why?
Ms. Gadde’s judgment to navigate thorny content-moderation questions.
Yep, "thorny", like banning the NY Post for leading on the Hunter Biden laptop story (a story that according to polls might have given us four more years of Trump...so nobody wins there...but her banning it might have actually swung the election. Kind of important.) and banning whatever they're called for filming a CNN producer discussing how they manipulated their viewers in the last election cycle and how they plan to do the same going forward on other issues. Another banning that wasn't mention in this article...weird.
As for suspending the NY Post...
Twitter cited its policy against posting material that contains personal material obtained through hacking.
Except Twitter never banned any of the Trump documents that were obtained through hacking. Again, not mentioned in this article.
Mr. Musk’s comments drew outrage from former Twitter executives. “What’s going on? You’re making an executive at the company you just bought the target of harassment and threats,” tweeted Dick Costolo, who was Twitter’s CEO from 2010 to 2015.
In a separate tweet, Mr. Costolo wrote: “Bullying is not leadership.”
Strong words by Costolo. Wonder what he's about?
Well shit...again, weird that his violent, hate filled tweets aren't mentioned.
More from Mr. Costolo:
“We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party,” Mr. Costolo said at a conference in 2011, a phrase echoed by other Twitter executives at the time.
Yeah, no bias here at all. They're only describing themselves AS a certain political party. The "free speech party" who are HUGE fans of censorship, telling only one side of a story, publicly shaming dissent, and cancel culture.
It is quite amazing to me that the "free speech party" is absolutely melting down about Musk buying one of their propaganda outlets just because he said he wants to allow actual free speech. It's even more amazing to watch their drones justify this stance and somehow convince themselves that they really do stand for free speech.
"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" has to be one of the most disgusting and threatening mantras pushed in the last few years. Seriously, it's a fucking THREAT!!! If this statement has so much value, why don't they use it when asking whistleblowers to speak up? How about saying it to witnesses about to testify?
I'm not saying people should be allowed to threaten one another or otherwise be awful human beings, but that statement rapidly began being used against any and all dissenting speech and it's not ok.
Isn't there some bible quote that says something about "the devil's greatest trick was making the world think he didn't exist"? Calling yourself the "free speech party" while dominating the MSM and social media and then shaming and silencing all dissenting views is a pretty neat trick. Just sayin'
And any random Rs reading this, stop smiling. You fucking asshats would do the same shit if your drones ran these platforms. "Fox News" is literally all I need to say to prove my point. Plus, your people already burn books you backwards fucks.