{"id":1708803,"date":"2022-10-24T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1708803"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:18:56","slug":"abc-worried-twitter-censorship-will-decline-with-elon-musk-at-helm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-worried-twitter-censorship-will-decline-with-elon-musk-at-helm\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Worried Twitter Censorship Will Decline With Elon Musk at Helm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fabc-worried-twitter-censorship-will-decline-with-elon-musk-at-helm%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=1708803&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\/10\/af0e906f-bb55-4965-88a5-b65b9c31b848-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Left is schizophrenic when it comes to Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>First they hated it.<\/p>\n<p>Then they wanted to force him to buy it.<\/p>\n<p>Now they are scared that the deal will go through.<\/p>\n<p>This week we learned that the Biden Administration is actually considering scotching the deal because it threatens national security, meaning Democrat control over the Narrative\u2122. No kidding. They actually are floating the notion that Elon Musk is such a threat to National Security that the Biden Administration should be able to control his business activities.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t about trust-busting; they are fine with Twitter as it is now, controlled by the Left. But the idea that the platform will have less censorship of ideas? Impossible!<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/potential-mass-layoffs-twitter-cripple-content-moderation-experts\/story?id=91856973&#038;cid=social_twitter_abcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News is chiming in with a similar take<\/a>: Elon\u2019s plan to radically downsize Twitter\u2019s bloated workforce to a more reasonable level will threaten \u201ccontent moderation,\u201d which is just another term for censorship.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Over the course of a\u00a0<a class=\"uOtk efBMc LIsPj wIScF\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/timeline-elon-musks-tumultuous-twitter-acquisition-attempt\/story?id=86611191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">monthslong bid<\/a>\u00a0to purchase Twitter, Elon Musk has signaled major changes at the platform. As Musk stands\u00a0<a class=\"uOtk efBMc LIsPj wIScF\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/elon-musk-proposes-buy-twitter-original-price-reversing\/story?id=90983803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poised to acquire the company<\/a>\u00a0in the coming weeks, the transformation appears even more far-reaching than some anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">In discussions about his plans for the company, in recent months, Musk talked about potential mass layoffs that would reduce the staff by 75%, the\u00a0<a class=\"uOtk efBMc LIsPj wIScF\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/10\/20\/musk-twitter-acquisition-staff-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">While details of the potential layoffs remain limited, the move could compromise the platform\u2019s capacity to police false or harmful content, with ramifications that extend to social issues like election integrity, experts told ABC News.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFalse or harmful content.\u201d That is a pretty vague term. Would it include, say, all the false information that was spat out about the debunked Steele Dossier? The promotion of the 1619 project? How about the declaration by the intelligence community that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation? Or perhaps the countless defamations of Republicans being racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cuts to the content moderation workforce would align with statements made by Musk in recent months about his commitment to the principle of free speech, suggesting that Twitter should permit all speech that stops short of violating the law, the experts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cContent moderation will be a lot harder without people doing content moderation,\u201d Zeve Sanderson, the executive director at New York University\u2019s Center for Social Media and Politics, told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">\u201cIf there is more harassment and other forms of toxic speech, if there is more misinformation and disinformation, then people\u2019s experience on the platform is going to be really different,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Twitter pretty much never polices the speech, however false or defamatory, of the Left. It is political censorship of conservatives, pure and simple. And they are utterly indifferent to the actual public good. And this is exactly what worries ABC\u2013that avenue of control over the narrative could be lost.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The experience of a typical user could change significantly, they added, noting the possible rise of harassment and other forms of corrosive discourse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This assertion is a hoot. Twitter is a cesspool of hateful content. It is almost its brand. What they mean is that liberal will be triggered by the increase in non-approved thought. Sure, the Left will experience a different Twitter: it will have more diversity of thought, and that is apparently painful to them.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The Left is quite serious, by the way, when they say that speech is violence. They believe feelings matter more than facts.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is actually pretty awful at preventing genuinely illegal content, and apparently do their best to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/exclusive-brands-blast-twitter-ads-next-child-pornography-accounts-2022-09-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avoid actually policing the trading of child pornography<\/a> (I wrote about that here). But they are extremely efficient at shutting down conservatives who question anything that the current Narrative\u2122 contains. They shut down coverage and discussion of the Hunter Biden laptop, famously kicked off the President of the United States because he was Bad Orange Man, shut up anybody who questioned the questionable CDC narratives, and lots more.<\/p>\n<p>You know the drill.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if Elon Musk can reform Twitter and make it more profitable. I hope he does.<\/p>\n<p>But even if he doesn\u2019t, his takeover bid has served a good purpose: forcing the Left to be more and more clear about their censorship agenda. It has been there all along, but over the past couple of years the MSM has come out fully in favor of censorship, and <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2022\/10\/20\/boom-59-of-voters-think-msm-is-a-major-threat-to-democracy-nyt-siena-poll-n504577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more and more people understand how dangerous the media has become<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good. Make them say the quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Left is schizophrenic when it comes to Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter. First they hated it. Then they wanted to force him to buy it. 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