{"id":1674225,"date":"2022-10-05T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674225"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:55:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:55:13","slug":"how-to-survive-elon-musks-pro-free-speech-twitter-a-guide-for-the-corrupted-national-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-survive-elon-musks-pro-free-speech-twitter-a-guide-for-the-corrupted-national-press\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Survive Elon Musk\u2019s Pro-Free Speech Twitter: A Guide For The Corrupted National Press"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhow-to-survive-elon-musks-pro-free-speech-twitter-a-guide-for-the-corrupted-national-press%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=1674225&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><\/div>\n<p>Based purely on what Elon Musk has said in public, his intention upon <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/12\/elon-musk-can-use-the-first-amendment-to-make-twitter-open-to-free-speech-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taking ownership of Twitter<\/a> is to free it from the little tech totalitarians who see it as their moral obligation to shut down any expression they disagree with. That understandably <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musks-twitter-bid-proves-the-private-business-can-do-what-it-wants-censorship-defense-was-always-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">frightens<\/a> a lot of people in the national media who rightfully sense a threat to their control over what information voters get to have.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s true that a Musk-owned Twitter will, in theory, greatly diminish the influence of pro-censorship journalists, there are ways they can prepare themselves to mitigate the coming trauma. Here are some:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>When confronted with information you can\u2019t suppress, say to yourself, \u201cThis too shall pass.\u201d <\/strong>To Musk\u2019s repeated vows to steer Twitter in a freer direction \u2014 that is to say, to the way it was pre-<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/17\/after-throttling-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story-with-hacked-and-russian-disinformation-lies-propaganda-press-quietly-admit-it-was-completely-legit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a>, pre-<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/15\/big-tech-censorship-partner-the-dispatch-smeared-newsmax-reporter-who-called-out-pfizers-ceo-for-not-being-fully-vaxxed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfact checkers\u201d<\/a> \u2014 Mike Allen at Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-am-2d366313-1484-44c2-b6f5-d88b64628f06.html?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> that his personal \u201c15 years of experience with online social networks tell us that such an approach is wildly impractical.\u201d He said less censorship on Twitter would \u201cunleash floods of spam, bullying, fraud and disinformation.\u201d Like the word \u201cracist,\u201d each of those things no longer has its original meaning when used by someone in the Washington press.\u00a0 By \u201cspam,\u201d Allen doesn\u2019t mean unwanted solicitation. He means \u201cthings I don\u2019t want to see, including perspectives that contradict my preference.\u201d By \u201cbullying,\u201d he doesn\u2019t mean the harassment of a weaker person by a more powerful one. He means an average person\u2019s right to counter-argue with, or even, dare I say, mock elitists in Washington and New York. And by \u201cdisinformation,\u201d Allen doesn\u2019t mean claims and rumors that are demonstrably false. He means competing information, arguments, and alternative opinions. People like Allen surely consider it an assault to be exposed to ideas or statements that they don\u2019t believe or support, but that may just be something they have to accept moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Spend less time monitoring Twitter content that you don\u2019t like for the purpose of reporting it to would-be censors, and more time perhaps utilizing the \u201cunfollow\u201d and \u201cblock\u201d features.<\/strong> A more open Twitter would inevitably mean some users publish sophomoric or even ugly content, either for their own amusement or because they\u2019re inherently bad people. Scott Rosenberg, also of Axios, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/04\/15\/musks-free-speech-twitter-content-moderation?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fretted<\/a> that a Muskified Twitter would become another one of the \u201cfree-fire zones enjoyed chiefly by extremists and trolls.\u201d Rosenberg is presumably referring to certain forums and chatrooms that become most frequented by weirdos, recluses, and all-around socially awkward young men. These have existed since the creation of email. The problem with warning that such a thing might occur at Twitter is that it\u2019s based on a lack of understanding of the platform. (Ironically, Rosenberg is Axios\u2019s technology editor.) The way Twitter works is by users finding publications and content creators that they enjoy. The only material a user sees is that which he has voluntarily sought. There is no risk of following a journalist who reports on politics, only to then get buried under a deluge of black separatist views or kinky pornography (especially if you <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/06\/08\/reporter-posts-screen-grab-showing-porn-tab-in-his-browser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">avoid\u00a0Kurt Eichenwald<\/a>). There is, however, the possibility that a user is exposed to such content if a person sent it to him directly. And that\u2019s what Twitter\u2019s \u201cunfollow,\u201d \u201cmute,\u201d and \u201cblock\u201d features are for. Isolated incidents like that don\u2019t need to be calls to action for journalists who suffer from control issues.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>If you truly cannot handle the idea of anyone and everyone having equal access to what has become the default platform for national political discourse, log out.<\/strong> NBC\u2019s Ben Collins looked like a nervous wreck when he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oneunderscore__\/status\/1577343289216405506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Tuesday, \u201cYes, I do think this site can and will change pretty dramatically if Musk gets full control over it.\u201d He said the new ownership \u201ccould actually affect midterms,\u201d meaning the elections in November. Ah, so journalists <em>do<\/em> understand. They <em>do<\/em> recognize that more information available to the public isn\u2019t always good for the corrupted media\u2019s political preferences. More expression and unrestricted flow of it is good for democracy. But so many journalists want less speech and more restrictions. Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I hope these tips help calm some anxiety.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based purely on what Elon Musk has said in public, his intention upon taking ownership of Twitter is to free it from the little tech totalitarians who see it as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674225","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\/1674225","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674225\/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=1674225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}