{"id":1777967,"date":"2022-12-16T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1777967"},"modified":"2022-12-16T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:03:13","slug":"no-its-not-fair-minded-to-defend-journalists-who-use-twitter-to-dox-their-political-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-its-not-fair-minded-to-defend-journalists-who-use-twitter-to-dox-their-political-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"No, It\u2019s Not \u2018Fair-Minded\u2019 To Defend \u2018Journalists\u2019 Who Use Twitter To Dox Their Political Enemies"},"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%2Fno-its-not-fair-minded-to-defend-journalists-who-use-twitter-to-dox-their-political-enemies%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=1777967&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>December 15, 2022, will go down as one of the darkest days in U.S. history \u2014 at least, that\u2019s the narrative you\u2019d get from tuning in to America\u2019s legacy media this morning.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening, numerous left-wing activists who parade around as journalists were suspended from Twitter after sharing the location of the platform\u2019s CEO, Elon Musk. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/16\/the-left-wing-journalists-elon-musk-suspended-from-twitter-got-what-they-deserved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Included<\/a> in the basket of deplorables were figures such as CNN reporter Donie O\u2019Sullivan, former Vox journalist Aaron Rupar, New York Times reporter Ryan Mac, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell, and the always laughable Keith Olbermann.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike their non-existent interest in reporting on the \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d which revealed efforts by Twitter to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-files-part-two-confirms-the-tech-giant-has-been-shadowbanning-conservatives-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shadowban<\/a> and censor prominent conservatives and non-narrative facts for years, corporate media jumped into action to decry the suspensions as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/1603745932440473602?s=20&amp;t=0hRJw-hLzLEnLgr9Cu95NQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unprecedented<\/a>\u201d attacks against their fellow propagandists.<\/p>\n<p>For people who claim to stand in solidarity with journalists, it\u2019s funny how this same level of outrage was nowhere to be found when Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/twitter-locked-my-account-for-telling-the-truth-about-rachel-levine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">locked out<\/a> of his Twitter account in March for factually stating that Rachel Levine is a man. Or when the New York Post was suspended days before the 2020 presidential election for their bombshell story regarding Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Davidson and the Post \u2014 whose suspensions were politically motivated \u2014 Rupar and company actually violated Twitter rules. These left-wing activists maliciously disclosed another person\u2019s location, and were sanctioned for endangering people. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s a good thing leftists are finally getting a taste of their own medicine, there are predictably those who think that doing so is a step too far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A]s hypocritical as it may be for leftist journalists to whine about arbitrary Twitter suspensions, what Musk is doing here is also hypocritical,\u201d whined National Review editor Philip Klein.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;[A]s hypocritical as it may be for leftist journalists to whine about arbitrary Twitter suspensions, what Musk is doing here is also hypocritical.&#8221; My take: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XN2bUB3Zug\">https:\/\/t.co\/XN2bUB3Zug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Klein (@philipaklein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philipaklein\/status\/1603752192862715905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;[A]s hypocritical as it may be for leftist journalists to whine about arbitrary Twitter suspensions, what Musk is doing here is also hypocritical.&quot; My take: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XN2bUB3Zug\">https:\/\/t.co\/XN2bUB3Zug<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philip Klein (@philipaklein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philipaklein\/status\/1603752192862715905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoxxing should be prohibited and a 7-day suspension for the first offense seems reasonable. But it should be a clear policy, not a changing standard,\u201d said the Manhattan Institute\u2019s Chris Rufo. \u201cArbitrary enforcement was bad before and it\u2019s bad now. Nobody should take Rupar seriously, but he should be on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Doxxing should be prohibited and a 7-day suspension for the first offense seems reasonable. But it should be a clear policy, not a changing standard. Arbitrary enforcement was bad before and it&#8217;s bad now. Nobody should take Rupar seriously, but he should be on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1603793111976923141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doxxing should be prohibited and a 7-day suspension for the first offense seems reasonable. But it should be a clear policy, not a changing standard. Arbitrary enforcement was bad before and it&#39;s bad now. Nobody should take Rupar seriously, but he should be on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1603793111976923141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other notable non-leftist political figures to come out against the suspensions include <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1603731980541100032?s=20&amp;t=ZeYPA7yJ4R4GWuAwhDmV5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlescwcooke\/status\/1603786933372846081?s=20&amp;t=Rk_N43Lket-UqxLqeX-bSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Charles Cooke<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1603788344470556674?s=20&amp;t=is87oFqIJwb11X2Ad2OoUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bari Weiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both Sides-ism is a Losing Strategy<\/p>\n<p>While they may have nothing but good intentions regarding speech on Twitter, the aforementioned figures criticizing Musk paint a clear picture of how America has devolved into her decaying state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative criticisms of Musk&#8217;s Twitter suspensions paint a clear picture of how leftists consistently win major battles in the culture war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1897996,"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":"No, It\u2019s Not \u2018Fair-Minded\u2019 To Defend \u2018Journalists\u2019 Who Use Twitter To Dox Their Political Enemies","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[9727,8303,7901,9726,7376,6919,6550,5313,3753,4253],"class_list":["post-1777967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-fair-minded","tag-no","tag-defend","tag-dox","tag-enemies","tag-federalist","tag-its","tag-journalists","tag-political","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"No, It\u2019s Not \u2018Fair-Minded\u2019 To Defend \u2018Journalists\u2019 Who Use Twitter To Dox Their Political Enemies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777967","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\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}