Forwarded from Warren Balogh
Matt Taibbi calling out the censorship of Elon Musk's Twitter over Matt Walsh's new documentary "What is a Woman?"
As soon as Musk agreed to ban NJP, PA & Kanye West for criticism of Jewish power, the same kind of "censorship creep" that occurred under Jack Dorsey became inevitable. Once Musk showed he is willing and able to censor, i.e. to bow to the will of the powerful, then he opened Twitter up to the same pressure forces that took Twitter from being the "free speech wing of the free speech party" to deplatforming the sitting president of the United States within three years.
While working on the Twitter Files, I saw the current system was designed so that even the most defiant CEO of a platform like Twitter would quickly be forced to choose between speech and survival. The reach of the “anti-disinformation” complex is such that the loss of a potential multi-million-dollar advertiser like The Daily Wire is a pittance compared to regulatory issues, corporate boycotts, and other nightmares that can be thrown at a platform that bucks on content. Nervous heterodox voices seem already to be wondering what it will mean if Musk Twitter really folds over relatively genteel thoughtcrime like What is a Woman? If this has to go, what stays?
https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-new-twitter-same-as-the
As soon as Musk agreed to ban NJP, PA & Kanye West for criticism of Jewish power, the same kind of "censorship creep" that occurred under Jack Dorsey became inevitable. Once Musk showed he is willing and able to censor, i.e. to bow to the will of the powerful, then he opened Twitter up to the same pressure forces that took Twitter from being the "free speech wing of the free speech party" to deplatforming the sitting president of the United States within three years.
While working on the Twitter Files, I saw the current system was designed so that even the most defiant CEO of a platform like Twitter would quickly be forced to choose between speech and survival. The reach of the “anti-disinformation” complex is such that the loss of a potential multi-million-dollar advertiser like The Daily Wire is a pittance compared to regulatory issues, corporate boycotts, and other nightmares that can be thrown at a platform that bucks on content. Nervous heterodox voices seem already to be wondering what it will mean if Musk Twitter really folds over relatively genteel thoughtcrime like What is a Woman? If this has to go, what stays?
https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-new-twitter-same-as-the
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Meet the New Twitter, Same as the Old Twitter?
Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" is the kind of content most thought would be safe under new Twitter ownership. A new battle over the film feels like an attack of nanny-Twitter déjà vu