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Liberal Doomsday Scenario: Free Speech on Twitter

April 29, 2022/9 Comments/in General/by Ann Coulter
LIBERAL DOOMSDAY SCENARIO: FREE SPEECH ON TWITTER

I want to send flowers and chocolates to the Twitter employee who permanently suspended The Babylon Bee. Maybe a car. Apparently, it was the inanity of that decision that incensed Elon Musk, whereupon he decided to purchase the entire platform to stop the censorship.

Liberals, until five minutes ago: Elon Musk is a climate hero! Electric cars! Solar power! He loves Obama!

Liberals, five minutes ago: He believes in free speech? Fascist!

Loads of liberals are threatening to leave Twitter if Musk’s deal goes through. To those who will miss The New York Times’ Charles Blow, I understand. I will try to ease the pain by tweeting, every day for the rest of my life: “[FILL IN THE BLANK] is racist!”

If you’re wondering why liberals are freaking out over the idea of free speech on one single internet platform, it’s because their ideas are so well thought-out and compellingly argued that they must have total control of all social media, mainstream media, entertainment, elementary schools, colleges, universities, nonprofits, corporate PR departments, government funding agencies, advertising firms and on and on and on. Any interruption to Big Brother being pumped into our brains 24 hours a day, and everything falls apart.

A hysterical Twitter employee in the “toxicity and health” department (I’m not making that up) denounced Musk to a Times reporter, saying, “he doesn’t know anything about our policies and what we do … his statement about our [algorithm] was f***ing insane. … Were (sic) just gonna let everyone run amok?”

Running “amok” is defined as: calling a man in a dress a “man.” That’s the Babylon Bee tweet that led to a Twitter death sentence, with no trial, no due process, no appeal.

Twitter employees, the Times reports, are “worried that Mr. Musk would undo the years of work they have put into cleaning up the toxic corners of the platform.” (Yes, you are correct: These are the same people mocking 4-year-olds trapped in kindergarten classrooms with teachers telling them Whiteness is evil and they can be any gender they want.)

Do Twitter employees know how Twitter works? Take a theoretical hate-speaker — a fat-shaming Klanner, an anti-vax Nazi or Dave Chappelle. Their literally murderous tweets are invisible — unless you intentionally, willfully, mindfully click their “follow” buttons. In order to avoid seeing “toxic” tweets, this is what you have to do: NOTHING!

But Twitter moderators are terrified that someone, somewhere, is laughing at a tweet. They are the mutant baby of medieval scolds and the East German Stasi.

Conservatives can only dream of a Twitter without constant, daily self-censorship, without their followers being secretly removed, their feeds hidden, their accounts being shadow-banned — or completely banned.

But what if this is all just Musk doing an elaborate troll?

Somebody should buy Twitter, as I explained last November to the richest person I know under 70. (The richest people I know over the age of 70 are giving all their money to Sen. Tim Scott and Candace Owens to prove they’re not “racist.”)

Here it is, my personal private email, names redacted:

Date: Nov. 30, 2021, at 2:04:51 a.m. EST

Subject: You should buy Twitter and I’ll tell you why …

ALL news comes from Twitter. Facebook is for getting in touch with high school friends and the “topic” groups are mostly nuts — anti-vax, stop the steal, black conspiracy theories. Same w/the newer platforms like Telegram. Snapchat and Instagram are for “influencers,” wannabe Kardashians.

Twitter is where the NYT, Politico and Fox News etc. get their stories and find their guests. Have one of your ppl read my Twitter feed and then watch XXXXX for a week. I’m his unpaid booker and content provider, except, sadly, when I get lazy and he goes off on his own with some moronic “expose” …

No one under 60 watches cable news, but YYYY, who’s about 90, calls me after XXXXX’s show every night and breathlessly tells me about stories that are 12 to 36 hours old on Twitter, half the time from my Twitter feed.

Even w/Twitter’s censorship of conservatives, the smartest right-wing pushback on the news has all come from Twitter. E.g. this week, HUGE meme on Twitter about the establishment media describing the BLM terrorist mowing down the lovely xmas parade in Waukesha as a “car crash,” or “SUV runs into parade.” There was also the msm’s decision to describe every rt-wing response to lib lunacy as “Republicans Pounce …”

There are a lot of smart ppl on Twitter (also idiots, but no one has to follow the idiots) who could never be employed by the NYT, National Review or Fox. Andy Ngo exposing antifa, the anti-CRT guy posting school teaching materials, the guy who keeps graphing mask-wearing vs. covid cases (“I.M.” on Twitter), the real-time videos of BLM riots and arson — none of this would exist but for Twitter.

Before that, the defense of Rittenhouse, Jake Gardner and Nick Sandmann — it all came from Twitter. (Recall National Review was nastily ANTI-Sandmann and anti-Rittenhouse.)

We used to have Drudge, but he’s not serving the function of vox populi anymore. Without Twitter, the only thing Fox News would talk about is the Middle East [We may now substitute “Ukraine”]. All important news comes from Twitter.

Twitter is …

1) where the action is, massively influential;

2) perfect for someone else to take it over and make it better, merely by firing the Twitter censors — Twitter aggressively banned tweets that were pro-Rittenhouse (accurate as it turned out), about Hunter Biden (ditto); plus there’s the aggressive censorship of specific popular conservatives, who are either thrown off (e.g. Gavin McInnes and Milo) or shadow-banned (me and others);

3) it would be pretty easy to turn into a money-making operation! The big issue for all news — TV, cable, Amazon Prime, and all online content is how to get ADVERTISING in front of consumers. No one wants to click through ads. The great thing about Twitter is that you could insert ads in people’s Twitter feeds — and it wouldn’t be annoying. I’ve never understood why Dorsey doesn’t do that. It doesn’t distract much, you just keep scrolling if you’re not interested.

Twitter is a fabulous product. It is, as Musk says, the nation’s public square. With a few minor tweaks — stop being Nazi block-watchers and allow ads in people’s Twitter feeds — instead of Tesla funding Twitter, someday Twitter could fund Tesla.

COPYRIGHT 2022 ANN COULTER

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  1. Kevin MacDonald
    Kevin MacDonald says:
    April 29, 2022 at 8:02 am

    I agree with Ann that Twitter is where the social media action is. You can follow me at @tooedit. I tweet pretty much every day.

    • Tom Baldwin
      Tom Baldwin says:
      April 29, 2022 at 9:08 am

      ever used Twitter. ever. don’t miss it. have other things to turn my attention to. be well.

    • Fenria
      Fenria says:
      May 1, 2022 at 8:18 pm

      The reason why this has happened to begin with is because people are giving Twitter and other mainstream, woke sites too much power. If we boycott these sites, we take them down a notch and they are forced to abide by the will of the majority of their users instead of catering to a small minority of overly represented, obscenely vocal whingers. Come over to Gab. There is absolutely no reason not to. Gab is growing and it’s literally devoted to free speech. Gab is founded by a white Christian man who is regularly defending his people and heritage American culture.

      We have to put our proverbial money where our mouths are. If we want a parallel society, we have to BUILD it, and that takes the form of being part of a project from the ground up, not just going where the popular people are. Gab is an incredible resource, and I don’t say that lightly. Our movement will be bolstered by having its A listers come over to Gab and become regular posters. Posting at Twitter exclusively is like shopping at Walmart while family businesses go under from lack of customers. We can’t complain that we don’t have the society we want if we’re not willing to make that leap to alternate sources when they become available.

      I personally don’t have a Twitter account and never will. I have no desire to feed the beast. If I can’t find it on Gab, I don’t need to see it.

      • George Kocan
        George Kocan says:
        May 3, 2022 at 6:23 am

        I tried to get on Gab but failed repeatedly.

  2. Karl Haemers
    Karl Haemers says:
    April 29, 2022 at 8:35 am

    I appreciate the insight and clever repartee.
    Since we here in TOO commentary are all about Free Speech, we will have to correct the view that Twitter is now “Nazi block watchers”. Crucial to our understanding is that the current censorship and mind control enacted by Twitter, including shadow-banning Coulter, is not “Nazi”. It is Communist. Neo-Communist to be more descriptive, because it uses technology and race issues, when the original Communism was rather primitive technologically and was confined mainly to class conflict. “Nazis”, you see, fought Communists as their bitter enemies. If we really had any Neo-National Socialists today with any means (and no, Musk is not one), they would be the ones buying Twitter and opening it up for free speech.
    No, that’s not true. Just as the original National Socialists cleaned up their media and disallowed racial and national defamation, promotion of transgender degeneracy, Jewish philosemitism, fake news, lies, attacks on family, degrading of religion, and other Jewish cultural Marxism, so Neo-National Socialists would not just make Twitter neutral free speech, but would ensure it had almost exclusively positive influences on culture and society.
    “Nazi block watchers” helped reclaim Germany from the brutal degradation and decay of the Wiemar period, and Neo-National Socialist monitors on Twitter would help make it a genuinely positive influence for white and BIPOC Americans of all political persuasions–who desperately need it as much as the Wiemar Germans did.
    There may be some positive aspects of the Nationalist Chinese social credit system we in the West could benefit from, though Musk is certainly not threatening such “extremism”. That is a whole other–though related–topic.

    Musk is no Goebbels, alas. I don’t expect Twitter to become even neutral under his ownership, much less positive. But let the Neo-National Socialists run Twitter, and then we’d see something.

  3. Veronica
    Veronica says:
    April 29, 2022 at 9:10 am

    Ann Coulter is a national treasure. Voltaire, I think, would be pleased with her pithy satire.

  4. George Kocan
    George Kocan says:
    April 29, 2022 at 9:13 am

    When Facebook censored me, I cancelled FB. Likewise, when Twitter censored me, I cancelled Twitter. Socialists, commies, fascists and perverts cannot win without censorship. “The Social Construction of Reality” cannot work without censorship. Democrats cannot win without the Goolag, without harassment, violence and the threat of violence.

  5. Gregory Walgreen
    Gregory Walgreen says:
    May 2, 2022 at 1:04 pm

    If only Andrew Anglin could write as good as Ann Coulter; if only Ann Coulter had the cajones to address the JQ; my world would be a better place.

  6. Jim K.
    Jim K. says:
    May 3, 2022 at 7:32 am

    This is certainly possible alot of journalists and the like are on twitter.

    From my knowledge telegram does now censor in the version downloaded from major tech corporations but not if you download the app from their own webpage.

    But this means you need the app to see alot of people’s posts.

    Will this mean that alot of the people part-banned in this way will migrate to twitter because it means it is easier for people to then read their posts?

    I assume this would mean like the National Alliance would be on twitter, all nazi parties, western chauvinists (former proud boys), Emily Youcis, NJP and the like would be on twitter, well I assume they were before the bans started.

    But those movements didn’t gather massammounts of people yet anyways. Seems kinda slow no pun intended…

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