{"id":1454198,"date":"2022-04-26T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454198"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:45:47","slug":"the-view-host-claims-twitter-is-mostly-straight-white-men-who-will-use-freedom-of-speech-to-abuse-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-view-host-claims-twitter-is-mostly-straight-white-men-who-will-use-freedom-of-speech-to-abuse-women\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The View\u2019 Host Claims Twitter Is Mostly \u2018Straight White Men\u2019 Who Will Use Freedom Of Speech To Abuse Women"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fthe-view-host-claims-twitter-is-mostly-straight-white-men-who-will-use-freedom-of-speech-to-abuse-women%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=1454198&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1188139873.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sunny Hostin claimed Tuesday that Twitter was populated primarily by \u201cstraight white men\u201d \u2014 and suggested that if billionaire Elon Musk allowed for more free speech on the platform, people would use that freedom to be more abusive toward women.<\/p>\n<p>Hostin and her co-hosts on ABC daytime talk show \u201cThe View\u201d responded during Tuesday\u2019s broadcast to the news that Musk, after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-twitter-announces-deal-with-elon-musk\/\">weeks of talking<\/a> about making such a move, had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/absolutely-monstrous-win-for-free-speech-conservatives-cheer-musk-buying-twitter\/\">secured a deal<\/a> to purchase Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the richest person in the world, Elon Musk is also a notorious Twitter troll, but he won\u2019t have to worry about being banned anymore since he just made a deal to buy the company for $44 billion,\u201d Joy Behar began, sharing a clip of Musk talking about what he believed freedom of speech entailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter has become a de facto town square, so it\u2019s just really important that people have the \u2013 both the reality and the perception that they\u2019re able to speak freely within the the bounds of the law. A good sign as to whether there\u2019s free speech is \u2013 is someone you don\u2019t like allowed to say something you don\u2019t like? And if that is the case, then we have free speech,\u201d Musk explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some reason a lot of people on the right are celebrating this as a big win for free speech. But the left loves free speech too, don\u2019t we? So why are conservatives so excited over Musk taking over?\u201d Behar asked, turning the question over to Hostin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Twitter can be a really horrible place, and I think people are excited because he is sort of going to unleash the trolls, right? I think he\u2019s saying, \u2018You get to say whatever you want. I\u2019m going to take away the guardrails,&#8217;\u201d Hostin replied. \u201cAnd for me, that is something that is a bit scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin went on to suggest that she wasn\u2019t the only one who was likely to be concerned by the move, arguing that more <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/this-platform-needs-to-police-the-view-suggests-limits-on-free-speech-as-long-as-it-limits-joe-rogan\/\">freedom of speech<\/a> on Twitter would probably lead to more women facing abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s going to be scary to a lot of women because there have been some surveys done and 38% of women around the world have said they\u2019re on the receiving end of abuse on Twitter \u2014 85% of women said they have seen the abuse,\u201d Hostin continued, noting that not even one quarter of the world\u2019s adult population was on Twitter, and claiming that most of those who were on the platform were \u201cstraight white men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter is not the real world. In fact, on Twitter it is predominantly straight white men. So when Elon Musk says, wow, this is about free speech, seems to me that it\u2019s about free speech of straight white men,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so let them have it. Let them just go at it. I enjoy the block button on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin concluded by saying that she believed other platforms would overtake Twitter in terms of popularity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what may happen, quite frankly, with Elon Musk taking over is that there will be other social media platforms that take over where real people are talking and there will be real freedom of speech because I\u2019m tired of billionaires taking over our modes of communication,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have Jeff Bezos taking over The Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg taking over Facebook and Instagram. Now you\u2019ve got Elon Musk taking over Twitter. You know, I guess billionaires want to take over free speech and I\u2019m not here for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunny Hostin claimed Tuesday that Twitter was populated primarily by \u201cstraight white men\u201d \u2014 and suggested that if billionaire Elon Musk allowed for more free speech on the platform, people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1480540,"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-1454198","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\/1454198","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}