Jeff Clark
@JeffClarkUS
Follow me. Don't be cowed!
Started a YouTube channel JUST FOUR DAYS AGO. All I did was upload clip of me on Bannon on 4/8/22 and a same-day clip of him explaining why he had me on.
YouTube says: "repeated violations" but no warnings. Perma ban.They're in fear. BigTech censors.
https://twitter.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1514237573417549829?s=20&t=Ll1FVkdGa83oNj0BzG5K-w
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1514044887330537477?s=20&t=Ll1FVkdGa83oNj0BzG5K-w
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
The widely reported pervasive fear among the Twitter workforce that Elon Musk may endanger or even end their systemic censorship regime illustrates how central of a tactic internet censorship has become for US liberalism.Information control is vital to their worldview.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1513846827224813569?s=20&t=Ll1FVkdGa83oNj0BzG5K-w
https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1513680696929239043?s=20&t=Ll1FVkdGa83oNj0BzG5K-w
You know the country is going to hell, when you have to fight people to get them understand “grooming children is bad”
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1513640216799506432?s=20&t=Ll1FVkdGa83oNj0BzG5K-w
The Battle of the Century: Here’s What Happens if Elon Musk Buys Twitter
In 2021 Elon Musk created overnight millionaires by pushing the Dogecoin meme. In 2022, he may be gearing up for something far more dramatic. The world’s richest man might be on the cusp of launching a global crusade to restore freedom of speech.
Creating an alternative platform could be interesting, though several of these exist already. Twitter remains, by Elon’s own admission, the de facto public town square. Despite its severe censorship, it is still the only major digital public space where anonymous accounts can interact with celebrities, journalists and business titans (including Elon), where world leaders engage in spirited public diplomacy, and where dominant cultural and political narratives incubate and spread.
The most exciting possibility is therefore the most obvious one: Musk should simply buy a controlling stake in Twitter itself. He could certainly afford it. At $31 billion, Twitter’s market cap is less than 15 percent of Musk’s current net worth. Even if one regards Twitter stock as entirely worthless, Musk could theoretically buy a controlling stake in it and still be the world’s richest man by fifty billion dollars, and free speech would be restored to the “land of the free.”
But in practice, it’s not that easy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to imagine a project more dangerous and difficult than restoring free speech to a major tech platform like Twitter. At the same time, it’s hard to imagine a more worthwhile project. Restoring genuine free speech would do more for patriotic Americans than the GOP taking back the White House in 2024, and it would pose a greater threat to the ruling Regime than anything Russia, China, or Iran might plausibly do.
Free speech online is what enabled the Trump revolution in 2016. If the Internet had been as free in 2020 as it was four years before, Trump would have cruised to reelection. Massive censorship and suppression are the tools needed to prop up Covid tyranny, the Ukraine war fever, and the idea that Lia Thomas is a “woman.” America’s decrepit and illegitimate ruling class intuitively understand this: Absolute freedom of speech, or even the speech norms that prevailed a mere decade ago, would instantly cause the American regime as we know it to crumble.
In short, transforming Twitter back into a real free speech platform would represent nothing less than a declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.
To fully understand why this is so, it is crucial to understand that Twitter is anything but a conventional “private company.” A company like The Home Depot might have a market cap ten times as large as Twitter’s, yet in terms of power and influence, who controls Twitter is profoundly more consequential. Home Depot would probably not remove its best selling paint cans or cardboard boxes from the shelves. Twitter, on the other hand, deplatformed its most high profile user, Donald J. Trump, while he was the sitting President of the United States. This is only the most dramatic example of censorious policy changes that restrict information flow and profit for Twitter.
In 2020 Revolver explored the Tucker Carlson Paradox: Tucker Carlson Tonight is the most popular program in cable news, yet no other networks try to imitate its content. The reason, we argued, is that ratings (and by extension profitability) are not even the real point of major news outlets:
For a media empire operating at the highest levels, the influence it wields on the public’s mind is far more valuable to the ruling power structure than any self-contained profit that could be generated by optimizing their news product to suit the taste of the audience.
This does not mean that profit is irrelevant to a media company. In Tucker’s case, his stratospheric ratings are a great tool of leverage, and without profit, a company must continually court new investors. But the point remains that for a serious media enterprise, profit is always secondary to influence.
The Tucker Carlson Paradox applies in its most extreme form to a platform like Twitter. Twitter’s market capitalization of barely $30 billion is extremely modest by Big Tech standards. Even Snapchat is twice as valuable. And yet, as the global public square, Twitter is also the epicenter of narrative formation, a key promotional vehicle for journalists and celebrities, and an increasingly critical stage for public diplomacy and hybrid warfare between state powers…
If Elon Musk bought Twitter and did nothing more than return it to the speech norms it had ten years ago, that act alone would constitute a “national security threat.” The threat posed to America’s joke institutions and the clowns who run them would be, in fact, existential.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech-tech-censorship-american-regime-war/
https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1513916337596375040?s=20&t=88VOs2mVzvIcJiwl8abMGg
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1514247329876000777?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w
Oklahoma Prepares For The End Of Roe With New Abortion Ban
April 13, 2022
Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a near-total ban on abortion Tuesday making the procedure a felony, with medical emergencies the sole exception.
“I promised Oklahomans that I would sign every pro-life bill that hit my desks, and that’s what we’re doing here today,” Stitt said at a morning signing ceremony. “We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state in the country. We want to outlaw abortion in the state of Oklahoma.”
The bill, passed unexpectedly by the Oklahoma Senate last week a year after approval in the state House, offers penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a six-figure fine for those who perform an abortion. No exceptions will exist for cases of rape or incest.
The pro-life measure comes as the Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority is on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade this summer. After oral arguments took place in December, a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization contesting a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy is expected in June, with the potential to reverse the court’s landmark 1973 decision in Roe.
The Oklahoma law banning abortion outright will deter Texas residents from crossing state lines to evade Lone Star restrictions after Republicans in Austin banned the procedure after about six weeks of pregnancy last fall. The Supreme Court rejected opportunities to block the Texas law three times. As a result, Texan abortion seekers have sought to terminate pregnancies in Oklahoma, where Planned Parenthood clinics have reported a 2,500 percent patient increase from Texas.
“We certainly don’t want Texans coming up to Oklahoma,” Stitt said Tuesday. “That’s certainly not our intent, is to have Texans and other people from other states flood into our state to have abortions, so hopefully this bill will curb that.”
Despite President Joe Biden’s first pick confirmed to the Supreme Court last week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s 6-3 ideological balance favoring conservatives remains unchanged ahead of June’s decision in the Dobbs case as the high bench signals the end of Roe v. Wade as ruling precedent. Twenty-six states are expected to tighten restrictions on abortion if the Supreme Court overturns the nearly 50-year-old decision in Roe.
Dear God make this happen to save mankind!
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/13/oklahoma-prepares-for-the-end-of-roe-with-new-abortion-ban/
NIH gets caught lying again
https://twitter.com/JsnFostr/status/1514240440005967872?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w
Why? Federal funds for emergency aid!
https://twitter.com/joelpollak/status/1514216816444207105?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w
Holy shit! 23.1% can’t read
https://twitter.com/CityJournal/status/1513940048068104193?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w
And he was on FB posting his screeds but never got banned.
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1514068656539451400?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w
https://twitter.com/HayleyMilon/status/1514048659540914178?s=20&t=2qGQJmBaRVR9EXU0CrEU0w