Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - Twitter Hates Free Speech, Not Elon Musk
Aired: 2022-04-28
Duration: 09:00


=== Elon Musk's Free Speech Challenge (08:55) ===

[00:00:04]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Horizons.
[00:00:07]  The internet, at least most of it, is trying very hard to make my videos impossible to find.
[00:00:12]  So if you like what you see, I hope you will send the link to a lot of your friends.
[00:00:16]  Elon Musk has bought Twitter, and lefties are terrified because Mr. Musk calls himself a free-speech absolutist.
[00:00:25]  Nothing scares the left more than letting everyone talk.
[00:00:29]  The NAACP Matthew Raza, a prominent writer for Salon and other liberal publications,
[00:00:47]  says, A weekly columnist for The Guardian, with half a million followers, says, Elon Musk's free speech absolutism is lethal.
[00:01:05]  On MSNBC, Elon Musk's Twitter purchase has sent shockwaves through much of the anti-disinformation political universe.
[00:01:16]  People reminded us that Elon Musk was born in South Africa.
[00:01:19]  BLM star Sean King says it's about white power.
[00:01:24]  The man was raised in apartheid by a white nationalist.
[00:01:29]  This black lady, who has written for every big magazine you can think of, called Elon Musk an apartheid houseplant.
[00:01:36]  And then there is anti-racism swami Tim Wise.
[00:01:41]  Fuck Elon Musk, apartheid baby.
[00:01:44]  You, your company, and everyone who stands for you.
[00:01:48]  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.
[00:01:56]  Cool. There are other options.
[00:01:59]  Other options.
[00:02:01]  You might expect a former Secretary of Labor to be thoughtful, but Robert Reich says banning people is necessary to protect democracy.
[00:02:10]  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.
[00:02:22]  What? Who does he think is running social media now?
[00:02:26]  He just wants his billionaires in charge, not Elon Musk.
[00:02:31]  There is no end to this kind of hysteria.
[00:02:34]  So here's my last example.
[00:02:35]  This unknown person wrote that Twitter Inc.
[00:02:39]  sold out to Twitler.
[00:02:41]  Heil Twitler!
[00:02:42]  The graphics are terrible, but the message is clear.
[00:02:45]  You see, Hitler was a free speech absolutist.
[00:02:49]  Conservatives, of course, are pleased.
[00:02:52]  Many people who work for Twitter are not.
[00:02:55]  And that's no surprise.
[00:02:56]  As the New York Post reported, Twitter employees give to Democrats by wide margin.
[00:03:02]  Can you guess the margin?
[00:03:04]  Last year, 99% of their political contributions went to Democrats.
[00:03:09]  99%!
[00:03:11]  Twitter employs thousands and thousands of censors who control what gets tweeted.
[00:03:16]  Their boss is an Indian-born lawyer named Vijaya Gade.
[00:03:23]  Here's a headline from Political about her.
[00:03:26]  Twitter's top lawyer reassures staff cries during meeting about Musk's takeover.
[00:03:32]  Well, of course she cried.
[00:03:34]  That woman, an outright enemy of free speech, had tremendous power.
[00:03:40]  And now she's probably out of a job.
[00:03:42]  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.
[00:03:53]  Her world has turned upside down.
[00:03:56]  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.
[00:04:05]  It's not an exaggeration to say that they want to rule the world.
[00:04:09]  You probably never heard of a study written in 2018 by Google called The Good Censor.
[00:04:16]  It was leaked to Breitbart News, so copies online have the Breitbart stamp.
[00:04:22]  The prestige media ignored it.
[00:04:24]  The report noted that the pioneers of the Internet thought they were building a utopia in which everyone could speak freely.
[00:04:32]  The authors reminded us that there was a time...
[00:04:35]  Around 2012, when Twitter executives called their company the free speech wing of the free speech party.
[00:04:43]  They were free speech absolutists, until it didn't work out quite the way they wanted.
[00:04:48]  When all people had a chance to speak, some of them said things the Silicon Valley bosses didn't like.
[00:04:56]  The solution was not to debate them, but to call them names and shut them up.
[00:05:01]  As the report noted, The early utopian period of the Internet has collapsed under the weight of bad behavior.
[00:05:10]  Bad beliefs have been able to flourish on the Internet.
[00:05:14]  Once-controversial views have been emboldened by like-minded individuals and are making their way offline, both on the streets and at the polls.
[00:05:24]  What were the awful consequences?
[00:05:27]  The report mentions the rise of nationalist parties in Britain and Germany, and worst of all, The election of Donald Trump.
[00:05:35]  That's why we needed the good censor to stop these things from happening.
[00:05:40]  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.
[00:05:57]  Well-ordered means that big tech can gag people it doesn't like.
[00:06:02]  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.
[00:06:10]  These people are convinced they know best, and they are determined to run the world.
[00:06:15]  Their arrogance and contempt for you are breathtaking.
[00:06:18]  And of course, in their arrogance, all the big tech companies banned me in American Renaissance.
[00:06:24]  Twitter won't even let you send a link to the Amran homepage.
[00:06:27]  And if you send an article...
[00:06:29]  Anyone who clicks on the link will get this scary message.
[00:06:33]  I was one of the first Twitter casualties.
[00:06:35]  My wings were clipped on December 18, 2017, after more than six years of tweeting and 41,000 followers.
[00:06:44]  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.
[00:06:56]  Well, it did.
[00:06:58]  When I appealed the ban, Twitter wrote back to say I was affiliated with a violent extremist group.
[00:07:05]  The good censor just makes it up as he goes along.
[00:07:08]  Twitter left me with a strange, abandoned building of an account with vacant graphics, no followers, and no way to tweet.
[00:07:16]  But since the company is under new management, I sent an official request to get the lights turned back on.
[00:07:22]  I'm now case number 0253, whatever that number is.
[00:07:27]  I guess the company has a lot on its hands.
[00:07:31]  It is so amusing when lefties show their true colors.
[00:07:35]  For years, they've wanted more censorship.
[00:07:38]  Always more.
[00:07:39]  They always got more.
[00:07:42]  But it's never enough.
[00:07:43]  And that's why they're howling.
[00:07:45]  They're not worried because it's Elon Musk.
[00:07:48]  It could be Oprah Winfrey, for heaven's sake.
[00:07:51]  The only problem is a buyer who believes in free speech.
[00:07:55]  The worst things Elon Musk ever said are that Canadian truckers rule and that gender pronouns are silly.
[00:08:03]  The word racist doesn't appear once in his very long Wikipedia article.
[00:08:10]  So why are lefties predicting the end of the world?
[00:08:12]  Because their world could end.
[00:08:15]  Because their world requires censorship and can't survive free speech.
[00:08:21]  They saw it during the early years of the Internet.
[00:08:25]  When we beat the pants off them and they had to ban us to keep from losing.
[00:08:30]  That's like playing in a tournament only after you have kneecapped all the players who can beat you.
[00:08:37]  You'd think they'd be ashamed to play so dirty, but this seems to be second nature to them.
[00:08:44]  Elon Musk is still going to have a fight.
[00:08:47]  I bet some of his employees will try to sabotage the company, but it will survive, and maybe I'll get my account back.
[00:08:54]  Twitter will make the world a better place.
[00:08:57]  One billionaire did it in 2016.