{"id":1714485,"date":"2022-10-28T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714485"},"modified":"2022-10-28T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:33:27","slug":"just-because-we-can-tweet-doesnt-mean-were-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-because-we-can-tweet-doesnt-mean-were-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Because We Can Tweet Doesn\u2019t Mean We\u2019re Free"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fjust-because-we-can-tweet-doesnt-mean-were-free%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=1714485&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--><p>Marking an end to one of the most annoying \u201cwill they, won\u2019t they\u201d phases in recent memory, Elon Musk finally became the owner of Twitter on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The renegade billionaire\u2019s acquisition of the American left\u2019s favorite outlet for both social networking and disseminating regime propaganda raises serious questions about the future of free speech in an era when it was all but a foregone conclusion that it would be mostly relegated to digital ghettos and political echo chambers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For too long, Twitter has been an outlet that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1585811707921780736?s=20&#038;t=e6GhA4QP1xtmZN7_G_wWiw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shuns the average user<\/a> as it bent over backward to accommodate <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/06\/twitter-ramps-up-election-meddling-ahead-of-midterms-with-fake-fact-checking-program-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat politicians<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/21\/biden-official-who-got-twitter-to-censor-alex-berenson-has-history-of-publishing-misinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corrupt American bureaucracy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/big-tech-whistleblower-exposes-twitters-close-relationship-with-the-chinese-communist-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">genocidal regimes abroad<\/a>. It participated in some of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/14\/twitter-repeatedly-claims-error-to-disguise-deliberate-censorship-of-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">egregious censorship<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/04\/twitter-censors-trump-not-biden-for-supposed-policy-violations-on-election-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political interference<\/a>, so when news broke that Musk had finally sealed the deal and kicked the former high-ranking censor-happy executives Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde to the curb, the platform broke out in what could only be described as a chaotic celebration as users began to post their hottest takes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, it was reminiscent of the Great Meme War of 2016 that may or may not \u2014 depending on whom you ask \u2014 have had a role in the election of President Donald Trump. For a brief moment, the internet was fun again, but this joy \u2014 at least for me \u2014 was short-lived. People were posting about how happy they were to \u201cbe free\u201d and to \u201chave their freedom back,\u201d fully convinced that one man\u2019s purchase would save our nation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Musk bought Twitter and has pledged to end censorship and the suppression of speech on one of the most important digital platforms and, in doing so, caused all the right people (left-wing apparatchiks posing as neutral journalists, entrenched federal bureaucrats, and the global elite in general) to experience a healthy dose of existential dread as they realized their grasp on power isn\u2019t as total as they thought it was, but this does not mean we have reclaimed \u2014 or been given back \u2014 our freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The faceless blob composed of the managerial elite, the people who really run the United States \u2014 to borrow a phrase from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/the-fbi-raided-trumps-home-because-hes-a-threat-to-rule-by-unelected-security-agencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Anton<\/a> \u2014 still have near complete control over every other institution that affects our lives. Sure, they probably can\u2019t ban you on Twitter anymore for saying boys and girls are different, but they will, undoubtedly, find their way into a similar role in some other company that is just as influential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The people who censored you on Twitter will find their way into Meta Platforms (the company formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), where they can work not just to suppress your speech but also to throttle your access to your preference of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/02\/20\/we-cracked-the-code-on-how-the-facebook-news-feed-algorithm-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news sources<\/a> and limit your participation in local online community groups. If they don\u2019t stay in the private sector, maybe they\u2019ll become federal bureaucrats who work to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-admin-holding-school-lunch-money-hostage-force-transgender-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">withhold funding<\/a> from school systems that won\u2019t affirm the gender delusions of young children.<\/p>\n<p>That said, pessimism is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclaiming our freedom is going to be much more complicated than Elon Musk acquiring Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":1714488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714485","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}