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Elon Musk's Free Speech Challenge
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Horizons. | |
| The internet, at least most of it, is trying very hard to make my videos impossible to find. | |
| So if you like what you see, I hope you will send the link to a lot of your friends. | |
| Elon Musk has bought Twitter, and lefties are terrified because Mr. Musk calls himself a free-speech absolutist. | |
| Nothing scares the left more than letting everyone talk. | |
| The NAACP Matthew Raza, a prominent writer for Salon and other liberal publications, | |
| says, A weekly columnist for The Guardian, with half a million followers, says, Elon Musk's free speech absolutism is lethal. | |
| On MSNBC, Elon Musk's Twitter purchase has sent shockwaves through much of the anti-disinformation political universe. | |
| People reminded us that Elon Musk was born in South Africa. | |
| BLM star Sean King says it's about white power. | |
| The man was raised in apartheid by a white nationalist. | |
| This black lady, who has written for every big magazine you can think of, called Elon Musk an apartheid houseplant. | |
| And then there is anti-racism swami Tim Wise. | |
| Fuck Elon Musk, apartheid baby. | |
| You, your company, and everyone who stands for you. | |
| We're going to have to deal with Nazis the way our grandparents did because Elon Musk is going to let them say whatever they want in the name of free speech. | |
| Cool. There are other options. | |
| Other options. | |
| You might expect a former Secretary of Labor to be thoughtful, but Robert Reich says banning people is necessary to protect democracy. | |
| He says that with Elon Musk, we would be living a brave new nightmare, dominated by the richest and most powerful people in the world who wouldn't be accountable to anyone. | |
| What? Who does he think is running social media now? | |
| He just wants his billionaires in charge, not Elon Musk. | |
| There is no end to this kind of hysteria. | |
| So here's my last example. | |
| This unknown person wrote that Twitter Inc. | |
| sold out to Twitler. | |
| Heil Twitler! | |
| The graphics are terrible, but the message is clear. | |
| You see, Hitler was a free speech absolutist. | |
| Conservatives, of course, are pleased. | |
| Many people who work for Twitter are not. | |
| And that's no surprise. | |
| As the New York Post reported, Twitter employees give to Democrats by wide margin. | |
| Can you guess the margin? | |
| Last year, 99% of their political contributions went to Democrats. | |
| 99%! | |
| Twitter employs thousands and thousands of censors who control what gets tweeted. | |
| Their boss is an Indian-born lawyer named Vijaya Gade. | |
| Here's a headline from Political about her. | |
| Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff cries during meeting about Musk's takeover. | |
| Well, of course she cried. | |
| That woman, an outright enemy of free speech, had tremendous power. | |
| And now she's probably out of a job. | |
| It was her department that banned the President of the United States to add 88 million followers and that suppressed the 100% authentic story about Hunter Biden's laptop. | |
| Her world has turned upside down. | |
| The people who run social media and the leftists who love them want to control what you read, what you hear, and ultimately what you do. | |
| It's not an exaggeration to say that they want to rule the world. | |
| You probably never heard of a study written in 2018 by Google called The Good Censor. | |
| It was leaked to Breitbart News, so copies online have the Breitbart stamp. | |
| The prestige media ignored it. | |
| The report noted that the pioneers of the Internet thought they were building a utopia in which everyone could speak freely. | |
| The authors reminded us that there was a time... | |
| Around 2012, when Twitter executives called their company the free speech wing of the free speech party. | |
| They were free speech absolutists, until it didn't work out quite the way they wanted. | |
| When all people had a chance to speak, some of them said things the Silicon Valley bosses didn't like. | |
| The solution was not to debate them, but to call them names and shut them up. | |
| As the report noted, The early utopian period of the Internet has collapsed under the weight of bad behavior. | |
| Bad beliefs have been able to flourish on the Internet. | |
| Once-controversial views have been emboldened by like-minded individuals and are making their way offline, both on the streets and at the polls. | |
| What were the awful consequences? | |
| The report mentions the rise of nationalist parties in Britain and Germany, and worst of all, The election of Donald Trump. | |
| That's why we needed the good censor to stop these things from happening. | |
| That's why, as the report says, tech firms have gradually shifted away from unmediated free speech and towards censorship, from an unmediated marketplace of ideas to well-ordered spaces for safety and civility. | |
| Well-ordered means that big tech can gag people it doesn't like. | |
| This Google report wasn't supposed to get outside of the company, and it didn't come from Twitter, but it confirms what we already knew. | |
| These people are convinced they know best, and they are determined to run the world. | |
| Their arrogance and contempt for you are breathtaking. | |
| And of course, in their arrogance, all the big tech companies banned me in American Renaissance. | |
| Twitter won't even let you send a link to the Amran homepage. | |
| And if you send an article... | |
| Anyone who clicks on the link will get this scary message. | |
| I was one of the first Twitter casualties. | |
| My wings were clipped on December 18, 2017, after more than six years of tweeting and 41,000 followers. | |
| This was the last of my 1,679 tweets, noting that Twitter had already stripped me of my blue checkmark and predicting that it may kill me off entirely tomorrow. | |
| Well, it did. | |
| When I appealed the ban, Twitter wrote back to say I was affiliated with a violent extremist group. | |
| The good censor just makes it up as he goes along. | |
| Twitter left me with a strange, abandoned building of an account with vacant graphics, no followers, and no way to tweet. | |
| But since the company is under new management, I sent an official request to get the lights turned back on. | |
| I'm now case number 0253, whatever that number is. | |
| I guess the company has a lot on its hands. | |
| It is so amusing when lefties show their true colors. | |
| For years, they've wanted more censorship. | |
| Always more. | |
| They always got more. | |
| But it's never enough. | |
| And that's why they're howling. | |
| They're not worried because it's Elon Musk. | |
| It could be Oprah Winfrey, for heaven's sake. | |
| The only problem is a buyer who believes in free speech. | |
| The worst things Elon Musk ever said are that Canadian truckers rule and that gender pronouns are silly. | |
| The word racist doesn't appear once in his very long Wikipedia article. | |
| So why are lefties predicting the end of the world? | |
| Because their world could end. | |
| Because their world requires censorship and can't survive free speech. | |
| They saw it during the early years of the Internet. | |
| When we beat the pants off them and they had to ban us to keep from losing. | |
| That's like playing in a tournament only after you have kneecapped all the players who can beat you. | |
| You'd think they'd be ashamed to play so dirty, but this seems to be second nature to them. | |
| Elon Musk is still going to have a fight. | |
| I bet some of his employees will try to sabotage the company, but it will survive, and maybe I'll get my account back. | |
| Twitter will make the world a better place. | |
| One billionaire did it in 2016. | |