{"id":1778015,"date":"2022-12-16T15:32:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1778015"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T20:32:55","slug":"elon-musk-doesnt-need-an-excuse-for-shutting-up-journalists-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-doesnt-need-an-excuse-for-shutting-up-journalists-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Doesn\u2019t Need An Excuse For Shutting Up Journalists On Twitter"},"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\">24<\/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-doesnt-need-an-excuse-for-shutting-up-journalists-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=1778015&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>It should become a Christmas tradition for Elon Musk to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/16\/censorships-biggest-cheerleaders-will-always-be-our-corrupt-corporate-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspend the Twitter accounts<\/a> of little journalist nerds and justify it by choosing at random any one of the excuses they like to use when championing censorship of critics and political opponents. <em>Doxxing! Misinformation! Hateful content!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rules on censoring Twitter speech were completely random, inconsistent, and fake before. I don\u2019t see why it should be any different now. Besides, it was fun seeing the self-obsessed <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/28\/dear-sweet-leftists-show-us-on-the-doll-where-elon-musk-touched-your-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pro-censorship dummies<\/a> behave this week as if they had become political prisoners after Musk, the new CEO of Twitter, muted their accounts for tweeting links to material live-tracking his private jet.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, reporters at CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and all the rest were scrambling to redefine what it meant to \u201cdoxx\u201d someone. Until Thursday, when all of this happened, everyone understood doxxing to mean the publication of a private person\u2019s contact information, like his home address, phone number, or account log-ins. I\u2019d certainly assume that posting a live, minute-by-minute trace of a private person\u2019s location falls under that umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>But Axios\u2019s Sara Fischer went on CNN Friday to amend that definition with a little extra. She said it was only doxxing if there was also \u201cthe intent of targeting someone.\u201d Uh, no. That was never the necessary criterion. <\/p>\n<p>Back in 2020 when Twitter first censored the New York Post\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-new-york-times-deserve-no-credit-for-grudgingly-admitting-what-we-all-knew-about-hunter-biden-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exclusive Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a>, it did so with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/twitter-ny-post-hunter-biden-violated-doxxing-hacked-materials-policies-2020-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the excuse<\/a> that the reporting included Biden\u2019s email address, which was obviously inadvertent on the Post\u2019s part. The address showed up in an image that was included in the reporting to back up its authenticity. The media were perfectly fine with that ruse. \u201cIntent of targeting\u201d is something Fischer made up just now.<\/p>\n<p>When they weren\u2019t reinventing the definition of \u201cdoxxing,\u201d these same \u201cjournalists\u201d were bemoaning the supposed lack of \u201ctransparency\u201d with which the suspensions were initiated. It\u2019s laughable. Musk has been exceedingly transparent as to why he suspended the dweebs. It\u2019s because he\u2019s screwing with them. <\/p>\n<p>He has of course also used the doxxing excuse, but who actually believes that Musk fears for his safety by having his jet plane\u2019s whereabouts disclosed? Unless he plans on flying it over Ukraine, he should be just fine.<\/p>\n<p>No, he\u2019s screwing with them because journalists have long believed Twitter was their domain. They believed it was the place where the rules were what they made them and to hell with anyone who didn\u2019t like it. And it was! But now it\u2019s not. Now it belongs to Musk. And this is his way of saying to hell with them.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/leftists-cant-quit-twitter-so-long-as-it-exists-no-one-can\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">such drama queens<\/a>. Their accounts were suspended for 24 hours because they thought it was cute to poke and prod Twitter\u2019s new owner, whom they openly despise on the platform he owns. When others were being outright banned for sharing scientific research related to Covid and for linking to information from longtime, trusted publications \u2014 or for even <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\">identifying men as men<\/a>! \u2014\u00a0these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rules on censoring Twitter speech were completely random, inconsistent and fake before. I don&#8217;t see why it should be any different now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1715244,"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":[7118,4249,9743,6919,5313,4250,4635,4253],"class_list":["post-1778015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-doesnt","tag-elon","tag-excuse","tag-federalist","tag-journalists","tag-musk","tag-shutting","tag-twitter"],"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\/1778015","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}