{"id":1715632,"date":"2022-10-29T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715632"},"modified":"2022-10-29T06:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:33:30","slug":"an-open-application-to-serve-on-twitters-content-moderation-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-open-application-to-serve-on-twitters-content-moderation-council\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Application To Serve On Twitter\u2019s Content Moderation Council"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fan-open-application-to-serve-on-twitters-content-moderation-council%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=1715632&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>Just days after taking over Twitter and firing a slew of top executives, Elon Musk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1586059953311137792?s=20&#038;t=xYn1nviufVVHgzfLHowl8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Friday afternoon<\/a>\u00a0that the company will be forming a \u201ccontent moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,\u201d and that \u201cno major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. Meet the new boss same as the old boss, right? But maybe not! If Musk really wants Twitter to be \u201ca common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence,\u201d as he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1585619322239561728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> recently, then he can prove it right now, by appointing me to the content moderation board.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m the perfect candidate, whose appointment to the council will show the world that Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover isn\u2019t some cynical ploy by an eccentric billionaire but a genuine push to transform the platform from a propaganda machine for elite media and the political establishment to a freewheeling forum for free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Why me? Because my Twitter account has been locked since March for violating Twitter\u2019s ridiculous rules against \u201chateful conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did I do that was supposedly hateful? I said that Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health in the Biden administration, is a man. Which he is. But Levine is also transgender. That is, he \u201cidentifies\u201d as a woman, dresses in women\u2019s clothing, and wears makeup and jewelry. Calling him a man counts as \u201ctargeted misgendering\u201d according to Twitter\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/rules-and-policies\/hateful-conduct-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hateful conduct rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not so simple. I didn\u2019t do anything hateful, nor did I call Levine a man to insult him, but to make a point. The background here is that in March,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/opinion\/2022\/03\/13\/melinda-french-gates-simone-biles-women-of-year\/6922631001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today named Levine<\/a>\u00a0as one of their 2022 \u201cWomen of the Year,\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/opinion\/2022\/03\/13\/rachel-levine-honoree-usa-today-women-of-the-year\/6600134001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published a totally unironic interview with Levine<\/a>\u00a0about being true to yourself. It\u2019s hard to think of a more tone-deaf or insulting way to honor women than to include a man in a \u201cWomen of the Year\u201d piece, but there it is. It\u2019s as if the editors at USA Today were trying on purpose to demonstrate how wokeness turns in on itself, like a snake devouring its tail.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Babylon Bee rightly mocked USA Today by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/the-babylon-bees-man-of-the-year-is-rachel-levine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">naming Levine<\/a>\u00a0its \u201cMan of the Year,\u201d which was brilliant and funny but didn\u2019t amuse the censors at Twitter one bit. The Bee\u2019s account was locked for violating those \u201chateful conduct\u201d rules, prompting Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann to tweet: \u201cMaybe they\u2019ll let us back into our @TheBabylonBee Twitter account if we throw a few thousand Uighurs in a concentration camp.\u201d Mann\u2019s account was promptly locked for that, and later the Bee\u2019s founder Adam Ford has his account locked for retweeting Mann.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote about all this in a column, noting that eventually firms like Twitter will silence everyone whose views do not align with their own woke orthodoxy. It doesn\u2019t matter that Levine, a 65-year-old who fathered two children with a woman he was married to from 1988 to 2013, is in fact a man. Truth is no defense against the censors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Elon Musk is serious about including \u2018diverse viewpoints\u2019 on the council, he\u2019ll appoint me, and then he\u2019ll unlock my Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":1715635,"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-1715632","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\/1715632","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}