Who Really Protects Free Speech in America?
This is rich! Only after Elon Musk temporarily bans a handful of news influencers does the New York Times grow a free speech bone. Musk suspended a handful of accounts after they published real-time locations of his private jet. This is known as doxxing and is explicitly cited in online rules as a terms of service violation. Under the old Twitter many so-called online journalists published the home addresses of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett with explicit recommendations to go protest at their homes. The Supreme Court justices were, “not to know a moment of peace”, because of their ruling that overturned Roe v Wade. Those Twitter accounts were not suspended! The New York Post account was banned for many months for reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story which didn’t dox anyone and now known to be accurate. Many people were banned or suspended for questioning the efficacy of lockdowns and vaccines and the damage to children closing schools did during the pandemic. I remember all of that well. The double standard could not be more stark.
The worst of this is what the New York Times is here suggesting: that the US Government punish Musk’s other businesses, including Space X and Tesla, using its massive regulatory power! I keep hearing and reading conservatives are the “authoritarians”. Not so when one looks at what actually happens.
I remember when Musk and Tesla were darlings of liberal journalists. Musk is a lifelong Democrat and still socially liberal. He and a growing number of writers seem to be noticing the trend toward governor information control; where private and individual rights are being threatened. Read for yourself:
New York Times December 16, 2022
“The silencing of prominent voices could raise the regulatory heat on Twitter, and possibly Mr. Musk’s other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, which is a big recipient of government funding and projects. It could also hurt his push to get reluctant advertisers back onto the platform.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/business/elon-musk-twitter-suspensions.html?smid=url-share