{"id":1748671,"date":"2022-11-22T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748671"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:47:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:47:58","slug":"elon-musk-and-dinesh-dsouza-explain-why-leftists-arent-being-let-back-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-and-dinesh-dsouza-explain-why-leftists-arent-being-let-back-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk And Dinesh D\u2019Souza Explain Why Leftists Aren\u2019t Being Let Back On Twitter"},"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\">28<\/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%2Felon-musk-and-dinesh-dsouza-explain-why-leftists-arent-being-let-back-on-twitter%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=1748671&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>Filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-dinesh-dsouza-appear-ben-shapiro-show-aaron-bandler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dinesh D\u2019Souza<\/a> and billionaire entrepreneur (and self-proclaimed \u201cChief Twit\u201d) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> offered an explanation on Tuesday for why leftists weren\u2019t being allowed back on Twitter \u2014 or if they were, why no one was talking about it.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief exchange on Musk\u2019s recently-acquired platform, the two men came to the conclusion that leftists were not being allowed to come back to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/industrial-karen-dana-loesch-torches-nine-inch-nails-frontman-for-planning-to-quit-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> largely because they had not been banned in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place. Their lies and misinformation simply escaped all scrutiny. Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives,\u201d D\u2019Souza tweeted, tagging Musk in his post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We don\u2019t hear much about Democrats and leftists being let back on Twitter. Why? Because they were never kicked off in the first place. Their lies and misinformation simply escaped all scrutiny. Censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dinesh D&#8217;Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DineshDSouza\/status\/1594822164380885030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A number of Democrats responded to his tweet, arguing that conservatives were more likely to get banned because they were more likely to violate Twitter\u2019s rules or to \u00a0engage in \u201chate speech.\u201d \u00a0Others argued that banning conservatives was acceptable because Republicans were the only party involved in an alleged attempt to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p>But Musk appeared to be on the same wavelength as D\u2019Souza, replying simply: \u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Correct<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1595114874614390789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk has been under fire in recent days for allowing certain accounts back on the platform \u2014 among them <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-jordan-peterson-restored-to-twitter-by-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Jordan Peterson<\/a> and satire site <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-elon-musk-restores-the-babylon-bees-twitter-account-let-that-sink-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Babylon Bee<\/a> \u2014 moves that clearly provoked the ire of NBC reporter Brandy Zadrozny.<\/p>\n<p>Zadrozny, speaking about the shooting that took place on Saturday night at LGBTQ space Club Q in Colorado, argued like many Democrats in media and on Capitol Hill that hateful rhetoric from the right had brought about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHateful and violent online rhetoric targeting LGBTQ people has been ratcheting up for months. Now, just hours after a deadly mass shooting at #ClubQ, the worst of these hate accounts, LibsofTikTok is targeting another drag event in Colorado,\u201d Zadrozny tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hateful and violent online rhetoric targeting LGBTQ people has been ratcheting up for months. Now, just hours after a deadly mass shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClubQ?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClubQ<\/a>, the worst of these hate accounts, LibsofTikTok is targeting another drag event in Colorado. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K7vDqVvHvK\">https:\/\/t.co\/K7vDqVvHvK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ak0aQwxKFy\">pic.twitter.com\/ak0aQwxKFy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandyZadrozny\/status\/1594345513318580226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She then took her screed a step further, claiming that by reinstating accounts like Peterson\u2019s and The Babylon Bee\u2019s, Musk was actively facilitating the hate speech that she claimed inspired such violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of folks suggesting Elon Musk should \u2018do something\u2019 about hate and harassment against LGBT people. But he has. Two days ago, he reinstated Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, seemingly reversing policy against hate and harassment targeting trans people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of folks suggesting Elon Musk should &#8220;do something&#8221; about hate and harassment against LGBT people. But he has. Two days ago, he reinstated Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson, seemingly reversing policy against hate and harassment targeting trans people. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNhsqLZh2C\">https:\/\/t.co\/vNhsqLZh2C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0vTs2cY4pf\">https:\/\/t.co\/0vTs2cY4pf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrandyZadrozny\/status\/1594356572733558785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Geoff Ingersoll, editor-in-chief at The Daily Caller, argued that Zadrozny had it entirely backward. \u201cBee named an incompetent trans public official \u2018man of the year\u2019 and Peterson deadnamed a celebrity in the course of criticizing elective surgery,\u201d he said. \u201cSuspending folks from the public square for criticizing the most privileged people in our society is anti-democratic, flat out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, as Ingersoll pointed out, the only \u201ccrimes\u201d committed by Peterson and The Bee boiled down to speaking an unpopular opinion aloud \u2014 and Twitter had wielded the power of censorship against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Dinesh D\u2019Souza and billionaire entrepreneur (and self-proclaimed \u201cChief Twit\u201d) Elon Musk offered an explanation on Tuesday for why leftists weren\u2019t being allowed back on Twitter \u2014 or if they were, why no one was talking about it. In a brief exchange on Musk\u2019s recently-acquired platform, the two men came to the conclusion that leftists &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1748674,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1748671","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=1748671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}