quote, it s like the gates of opened on the site tonight. sha. she wrote the gates of , people are meeting, you may have noticed, spend their entire lives onlin he. now the gates of open when wet run out of diesel fuel and thed. airlines don t work and people freeze to death, the gates ofaya don t open. when people get to say what they want on social media. sorry, get some perspective. funny, but none of them have perspective. it is sad, responded frank shaww works at the head oforkss communications at microsoft.. lawrence was upset because she makes her living by defaming people and then harassing them personally. ing thembut until last night, tr protected her and many journalists like her from any criticism whatsoever. here was vijaya got a gaudi who is the chief censor at twitter. the head lawyer explained why twitter bans anyone who mocks journalists because it s dangerous to moccause itk journ. what we were trying toin understand the context of what was goin tg on , take acti
ite target of dog piling event on twitter, but it is notthou particularly funsa when thousans of people or hundreds of people are tweetingand at you and sayr things. itd that s can be viewed as a form of harassment. it sth not about the individual tweet. ns about the volume oe beinf things that are being directed. i don t understand. and so in that particular case,i we made the judgment call and it is a judgment call to take down the tweets that were responding directly to thesen journalists that were saying learn to code even ifn to cod they didn t have a wish of harmo specifically attached to them because of what we viewed as ae coordinated attempat to harasshs them. wo see how this works. sork whes?oun you re r a journa, y people s livesy in this country on behalf of a politica pl party. you can totally crush them, get them fired from their jobsy ,attacked them to the point o they literally lose custody of their children, which has happenedeir ch is happening now. by the way,
also, ever also, everyone crying about free speech convenientlyg t. endorses the biggest threat to free speech in america is the f ing government. rica i okay, wells , that s true. f-init s also a lie by omission because in fact, twitter was acting on behalf of the government. that s the point. e missionr wawe know that thankk filed by alex berenson, tha and others, we know for a fact that twitter censoredan political views at the behest of the white house and also at of pfizer .ernment so the biggest company in toget the world, the biggest government in the world,her and get together, tell les.smedia powerful people they can t talk. and that s what the mediare defending a are defending right now. so obviously, they don t understand the concept ofhy freedom of speech or why it s important or why elon musk bought twitter. joe cirincione, a quote next sec expert member on the thoroughly discredited accounts on foreign relations,ts wrote this last night, for l example, quote, i now approa
main reason that elon musk fired prag agrawallo would be t0 head of twitter, the loathsomegl head of twitte wr who went on the record ink 2020 sayingue his goal was to block people from saying what they believe towa be true. watch, watch. our goal is not to be bound by the first amendment, bu st our role is to serve the conversation and our moves reflective of things that leadpc to a public conversation, the kinds of things that we we do do. what about this? is the focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed. one of the changes today that we see is speech is easy on the internet. most people can speak whenr roli our role is particularly emphasized is going to be hard. so free speech isn t just a prerequisite for freedom. of course , it s not simplyn th the first right guaranteed invic the bill of rights. it s our civic religion.is it s what america is without
every one can talk rich or powerful, poor or powerless, n everyonetter whe can talk, nothing will everce be the same . defend it and the democratic party will be forced to defend itsmoct positions on their merits. now mocrats pulled a sitting president off twitter. nonninw apparently he s running again. you p so how could you possibly, defend censoring that candidate, donald trump, if yo mp?u democracy, are you really going to argue that a presidentialue candidate can t talk?e they re going to havgoing e to e what. they re going have to say thatto trouublic. what s that conversation going to look like? the biden administration is in troubleve because of this. m everything depends for them on censorship, everything they re going to d do everything they can to shut twitter down again and they re going to do their best to destroy its new owner. and elon musk must know thatg iy he s doing it anyway. and that s the definition of