{"id":1437979,"date":"2022-04-14T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437979"},"modified":"2022-04-14T13:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T17:02:04","slug":"twitter-s-blue-checkmark-brigade-freaks-out-over-elon-musk-s-buyout-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-s-blue-checkmark-brigade-freaks-out-over-elon-musk-s-buyout-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&#039; s Blue Checkmark Brigade Freaks Out over Elon Musk&#039; s Buyout Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-s-blue-checkmark-brigade-freaks-out-over-elon-musk-s-buyout-plan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1437979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elon-Musk-shrugs-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Liberals, progressives, and establishment pundits were in meltdown mode this morning after billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-100-percent-of-twitter-restore-free-speech\/\">stated his intention<\/a> to buy 100 percent of Twitter, transform it into a private company, and restore free speech on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>While it is still very unclear if Musk\u2019s proposed purchase of Twitter at 18 percent above yesterday\u2019s closing share price will ever take place, it didn\u2019t stop blue checkmark brigade from breaking down in digital fits of rage across the platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Notorious neoconservative warmonger and diehard NeverTrump pundit Max Boot repeated what is likely to be a recurring argument from establishment mouthpieces: that free speech is dangerous to democracy, and that content moderation (censorship) is actually\u00a0<em>real\u00a0<\/em>freedom. In Max Boot\u2019s world, there\u2019s no democracy or freedom unless speech is controlled by a tiny minority of unaccountable elites.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Boot \ud83c\uddfa (@MaxBoot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/1514570168730636290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Progressive author and Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf threatened to quit the platform if Elon Musk took over. \u201cWe are the assets of Twitter,\u201d declared the man behind the 260,000-follower account.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are the assets of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a>. If we walk out the door the moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElonMusk<\/a> takes it over, it is nothing. And, I can tell you, I for one, have no desire to participate in the social engineering experiment of that particular out-of-control megalomaniac.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/djrothkopf\/status\/1514566650938417158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gun control advocate Fred Guttenberg said he wouldn\u2019t buy any Tesla cars because of the CEO\u2019s pro-free speech stance. \u201cPeople buying his cars are not your likely Trump voters,\u201d said Guttenberg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> wants to do for Trump what Truth Social couldn&#8217;t.  The thing is, the people buying his cars are not your likely Trump voters.  The possibility of a Tesla as a future purchase for me is gone.  Many other great electric automotive options available.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fred_guttenberg\/status\/1514580267628908545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re full of s***,\u201d said Scott Galloway, a professor at NYU Stern and a podcaster on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/04\/13\/nolte-cnn-plus-paid-three-hundred-million-to-attract-ten-thousand-daily-viewers\/\">CNN\u2019s failed online streaming platform<\/a>, CNN+.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Market open to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re full of shit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/profgalloway\/status\/1514599616922062848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A variety of leftist users tweeted some variation of \u201ctax the rich\u201d or \u201cabolish billionaires.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk making a play for Twitter out of his petty cash drawer is one more example of why the pooling of so much wealth in the hands of a few is a societal disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waltshaub\/status\/1514584619701739520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk is why to abolish billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>Asking them to chip in their fair share isn\u2019t enough. Regulating them isn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n<p>When people are allowed to acquire this much concentrated influence, they will inevitably manspread economic power into every other form of power.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anand Giridharadas @ The.Ink (@AnandWrites) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnandWrites\/status\/1514559725538471939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk used government subsidies to fund Tesla&#8217;s growth and to launch SpaceX. He then moved to Texas to avoid paying taxes that would support his community. Now we&#8217;re all stuck with another billionaire vanity project. Tax. The. Rich.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Toder for Senate (@SpencerToder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerToder\/status\/1514601271457554439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the left\u2019s cultural reference points tend to be limited to Harry Potter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/07\/03\/harry-potter-fan-sites-blot-out-j-k-rowlings-full-name-over-transgender-thought-crime\/\">now minus the author<\/a>) and the superhero universes of Marvel &#038; DC, one of these was of course cited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk launching a hostile takeover bid for Twitter is giving Lex Luthor buying the Daily Planet vibes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahmed Ali (@MrAhmednurAli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAhmednurAli\/status\/1514603338972631045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And because the left only knows one historical reference point, that too was cited.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffjarvis\/status\/1514578609754812419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals, progressives, and establishment pundits were in meltdown mode this morning after billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, stated his intention to buy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}