{"id":1854319,"date":"2023-02-20T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1854319"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:05:20","slug":"elon-musk-agrees-with-the-federalists-john-davidson-on-the-dangers-of-big-tech-censorship-but-wont-unban-him-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-agrees-with-the-federalists-john-davidson-on-the-dangers-of-big-tech-censorship-but-wont-unban-him-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Agrees With The Federalist\u2019s John Davidson On The Dangers Of Big Tech Censorship, But Won\u2019t Unban Him 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\">42<\/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-agrees-with-the-federalists-john-davidson-on-the-dangers-of-big-tech-censorship-but-wont-unban-him-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=1854319&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-->\n<p>Elon Musk and John Daniel Davidson, Senior Editor at Federalist, agreed that social media moderation is often sinister. It allows the federal government to illegally and secretly censor individuals. Despite Musk&#8217;s bold statements, Davidson is still banned from Musk-owned Twitter because of an ideological thought crime. Musk has yet to make any move to reinstate Davidson. &#8220;free speech&#8221; Campaign for the brand.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University physician, epidemiologist and health economist, shared his experience.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imprimis.hillsdale.edu\/the-twitter-files-reveal-an-existential-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article written<\/a>\u00a0By Davidson on Twitter, with a quote taken from Davidson&#8217;s article: &#8220;The entire concept of \u2018content moderation&#8217; is a euphemism for censorship by social media companies that falsely claim to be neutral and unbiased \u2026 They provide cover for a policy of pervasive government censorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I should have stated more clearly in my original post that content moderation is something I do not support for science, medicine, or policy issues. Sorry for not being more clear. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ib4anij8q\">https:\/\/t.co\/6ib4anij8q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJBhattacharya\/status\/1627379267389558784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Musk responded to the Tweet, agreeing with Davidson&#8217;s statement and writing, &#8220;There is harmful content moderation too, but yes.&#8221; Bhattacharya answered back to Musk, &#8220;Yes, content moderation to remove violent threats, child porn, etc. is good. Government induced viewpoint discrimination on scientific and policy matters not so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, content moderation to remove violent threats, child porn, etc. is good. Government induced viewpoint discrimination on scientific and policy matters not so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJBhattacharya\/status\/1627341069829406724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Davidson remains banned since last March, and his suspension has nothing to do with the &#8220;harmful content&#8221; that Musk mentioned. There were no &#8220;violent threats&#8221; nor &#8220;child porn&#8221; involved. Davidson was banned for stating the biological fact that Rachel Levine, the Biden Administration&#8217;s transgender assistant secretary for health, is a man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davidson was told by pre-Musk-owned Twitter that his truthful Tweet amounts to &#8220;hateful conduct&#8221; and was given the option to either remain banned or delete the tweet, whereby he would acknowledge that he &#8220;violated the Twitter rules.&#8221; In other words, he would only be allowed back on Twitter if he showed contrition to the tech giant by self-admitting he had been hateful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/twitter-locked-my-account-for-telling-the-truth-about-rachel-levine\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[READ: Twitter Locked My Account For Telling The Truth About Rachel Levine]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Davidson refused to participate in Twitter&#8217;s re-education exercise, which is why he remains banned to this day\u2014even under Musk&#8217;s supposed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1499976967105433600?s=20&#038;t=v1HBgdNo5Y-jERhcq99JWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free<\/a> speech absolutist&#8221; platform. The Federalist&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief, Mollie Hemingway, and CEO and Co-founder Sean Davis pointed out the irony in Musk maintaining the ban on Davidson yet agreeing with him on the dangers of Big Tech censorship. So far, Musk has not responded to any of the numerous appeals that he unban Davidson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The author of that article has been locked out of his Twitter account for more than a year for calling a man a man. Please fix this. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnddavidson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@johnddavidson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1627377147185594368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2023<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since you cede <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnddavidson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@johnddavidson<\/a>&#8216;s point, would be good for you to unlock his locked Twitter account. Brutal attack on freedom of press and speech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;unbanning&#8221; of high-profile conservative accounts only a publicity stunt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1623,"featured_media":1854322,"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":[7174,6371,10096,12926,4249,8756,4475,4250,4989,4253,19187,4324],"class_list":["post-1854319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-agrees","tag-censorship","tag-dangers","tag-davidson","tag-elon","tag-federalists","tag-john","tag-musk","tag-tech","tag-twitter","tag-unban","tag-wont"],"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\/1854319","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\/1623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}