“No, we can’t. We are a free country. @elonmusk can post smart things or stupid things. He can choose to promote cute cat videos over boring Jim Jordan tweets, or not. He can amplify COVID deniers, or not. The Constitution prevents government from regulating speech on Twitter.”
“If the far-right weren't attacking trans people like they are today, they'd find another target. The entire schtick is to find an outgroup to label as degenerate, subhuman, and dangerous to society (e.g. "groomer" panic), and harass the outgroup as a public display of cruelty.”
The Twitter Files are best understood as an egregious example of the very phenomenon it purports to condemn — that of unaccountable social media managers leveraging their platforms for partisan ends.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1601621108599709706
Part of the scam is to define basic bedrock standards of decency as "left" & then, lo, you find "left bias" everywhere you look.
But that's not bias, fellas. That's just people trying to live in a society together.
It's not fair that I get tossed out of McDonalds for throwing fries at staff and customers but the people sitting there and eating aren't hassled by management at all. The MICKEY D FILES will expose all.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1601418076049637376
“It's not fair that I get tossed out of McDonalds for throwing fries at staff and customers but the people sitting there and eating aren't hassled by management at all. The MICKEY D FILES will expose all.”