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Elon Musk claims to be fighting for free speech in America but the social networks new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right internet trolls flooded Twitters complaints system with false reports about terms of service violations.
As the Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin noted on Twitter, the suspended users include Chad Loder, an antifascist researcher whose open-source investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot led to the identification and arrest of a masked Proud Boy who attacked police officers. The account of video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, who reports on far-right protests in Southern California, has also been suspended.
Among the other prominent accounts suspended were the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that provides armed security for LGBTQ+ events in North Texas, and CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that has published and distributed anarchist and anti-authoritarian zines, books, posters, and podcasts since the mid-1990s.
All four accounts had been singled out for criticism by Andy Ngo, a far-right writer whose conspiratorial, error-riddled reporting on left-wing protests and social movements fuels the mass delusion that a handful of small antifascist groups are part of an imaginary shadow army called antifa. In a public exchange on Twitter on Friday, Musk invited Ngo to report Antifa accounts that should be suspended directly to him.
/more at link: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/
Rebl2
(13,523 posts)is this free speech mr musk?🙄
StormKing
(243 posts)Pretty damn sure that soon a mass murder is going to be organized on Twitter and he's going to be completely alone and holding responsibility for it.
PortTack
(32,778 posts)Them from their app store, and Google too.
So hes going to make his own phone..well good luck with that idiot. Apple holds 50% of the smart phone market.
catbyte
(34,403 posts)He had nothing to do with developing the Tesla and Space-X has had to distract him like a toddler so he wouldn't muck anything up.
List left
(595 posts)Free speech means...
Musk is free to say whatever he wants.
Everyone else is free to say whatever he wants.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Are liberals more resourceful than conservatives when they don't get their way? It certainly looks like it.
Oh, and Mole Sunk? Hitching up with Andy Ngo is a colossally stupid thing to do, but you'll find that out soon enough.