FBI/Twitter Stasiland Files Not A Story, But Temporary Ban Of Musk Doxxers Leads To International Crisis In Journalism
Who Is Aaron Rupar and How Does he Command The Attention Of The Un, The EU, Many Nations, and Journalism Organizations, Due to A Twitter Time Out He Richly Deserved?
”We should give credit where credit is due and face the fact that as of now without Musk’s intervention Twitter would have remained a secret society of young socialist tech boffins working to silence any dissent that does not serve the interest of traitors that wish to destroy our Republic and enslave us. Irrespective of other criticisms thrown at him that is a fact.”
—Comment from GLK
I’m not sure what Fang means by “War On Terror stuff” but this sums the dreary, depressing FBI/Twitter situation up in five lines. I expect many people are shrugging it off. We’re so beaten down since 2016, we barely react when it comes to light that the FBI was not only fully integrated/infiltrated into Twitter as a medium, it placed daily termination orders on accounts, including those who merely joked about election fraud, which Twitter employees responded to like dutiful waiters hoping for good tips.
Did you know the FBI was that humorless?
We’re not sure how to react, or whether there’s any point trying to react.
If we don’t react to Twitter Files part 6, in all its hideous implications, it means that Americans, in 2022, identify as East Germans, circa 1969. After the Berlin Wall fell, the former GDR government gave every East German citizen the choice to open their surveillance files. Some of those who chose to open their file and read it were shattered by the contents. neighbors, friends, even spouses were revealed to have been informants. Would you open yours? I would not.
I’m not sure what to say. This is a communist country, with better food.
If you want to be distracted by reading about a more interesting communist dictatorship than this one, this—Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall, by Anna Funder—is an outstanding book.
Maybe I’ll re-read it, for a third time, to distract myself from the perpetual peeping Tom slime vibe of living in the FBI’s USA, 2022. Humorless, drab, hysterical, narcissistic, and approaching every opinion not their own as a dangerous snake that has to be attacked with a shovel, in the name of combatting “hate” and protecting “democracy.”
How much more of this are we expected to take?
I have a queasy feeling somebody may find me in one of these files, one day. I did get disappeared, without explanation, in 2021. Do I want to know?
In one day it comes out that the CIA was (as we knew) involved in JFK’s assassination, and that the FBI runs, controls, and edits Twitter, directly, and that’s the only media outlet we know they run.
But none of that made the news.
The FBI is disgusting. Twitter was disgusting, somewhat less so now. But it’s clear the Bolshiviki plan to make the whole thing about them, and make it insufferable, only in a new way.
As Musk says, he purchased a “crime scene.” Jack Dorsey is inscrutable— never had any clear values that I could discern. Now all we have to look forward to is perpetual mobbing of Elon Musk, the new Trump, the new Bad Bad Rich Daddy— the new object of sadistic derision 24/7.
We no longer produce any culture—our culture is online mockery. Nobody can conceive of respecting somebody they “disagree” with.
We’re a nation of damned schoolyard bullies.
The only story the mainstream media saw fit to freak out about about today was Elon Musk suspending accounts of 5, or 6 or 8 journalists, (who had been involved in doxxing him, and threatening his child, if I have to right.) To MSM, it was an existential threat to the first amendment (which they suddenly claim to value,) and to journalism, so much so that journalism organizations were dug up, to comment on the crisis.
They contacted the United Nations. They got condemnations from France, Germany, the UK and the European Union. You have to read it to believe it:
From (Bill Gates funded) Reuters:
”STORY: Twitter's unprecedented suspension of at least five journalists drew swift backlash from government officials, advocacy groups and journalism organizations across the globe on Friday.
United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the U.N. was disturbed by the 'arbitrary' suspensions:
"Media voices should not be silenced on a platform that professes to be a space for freedom of speech. From our standpoint, the move sets a dangerous precedent at a time when journalists all over the world are facing censorship, physical threats, and even worse. And we are remaining in touch with officials at Twitter."
[Note: I was faced with much worse than this, in 2006, and the UN and EU never felt sorry for me or said the retaliation against me by AIDS activists and researchers “set a dangerous precedent.” Nobody even called it “chilling.” Harper’s had AIDS activists doxxing their whole staff, demanding resignations, demanding I be condemned, demanding my article be rescinded, and their pro-pharma propaganda be published in the very next issue. Literally. I was threatened with murder, on Facebook, and even dismemberment, but I never got the United Nations to say so much as boo about it. I’m starting to finally get mad. Am I not a journalist? What are you, then, if you publish 11,000 words in Harpers? Never mind ME. Many journalists are killed for their stories. Or driven to suicide. These clowns were suspended for less than 24 hours from Twitter, after doxxing Elon Musk’s toddler.]
Back to the blood-boiling article in Reuters, pretending this represents a global crisis in press freedom:
“Twitter suspended the accounts over claims they revealed the real-time location of owner Elon Musk.
"It will definitely have a chilling effect on coverage of him."
“Aaron Rupar is an independent journalist covering U.S. media and politics, and publisher of the newsletter, 'Public Notice'. On Wednesday he published a newsletter critical of Musk:
"I published a newsletter taking a close look at kind of his brand of populism, and how he postures as a populist but he's really kind of appealing to the far right and trying to marginalize people who are already marginalized, trans people, LGBT people."
“By Thursday, Rupar's popular Twitter account had been suspended.
"It seemed like beyond being critics of Elon, the one thing that all of us had in common was that we had linked to the Facebook page tracking his private jets."
“On Wednesday, Twitter suspended an account called ElonJet, which tracked Musk's private plane using publicly available information.”
Could you make this up? They quote him admitting he and all the other doxxed Musk.
“It seemed like beyond being critics of Elon, the one thing that all of us had in common was that we had linked to the Facebook page tracking his private jets.”
Little detail.
Was this article written by AI? That quote implodes the whole premise of the piece—punctures it. There was no crisis of press freedom at Twitter: The whole thing was about disciplinary measures against doxxing. And they admit that! Musk stands accused of not making rules about doxxing clear before he was doxxed. But the UN, and EU, and the “journalism organizations” could not even identify that this horrendous suppression of free speech resulted from doxxing, not from “Elon Musk criticism.” In the next passage, you will see Elon’s fury over his child being threatened transmogrified into “his whims.”
This is the thing with this crowd: They don’t have a fair bone in their body. If they had one fair bone it would cause them to limp. They are perfectly and obscenely, unfair. Woke, in a word. To be Woke is to be perfectly unfair, like the brat child who punches another child, starts a fight, but cries when he gets punched back. It must be great to be a protected species in “journalism.”
“Shortly after, Twitter changed its privacy policy to prohibit the sharing of "live location information."
“A day later, Rupar and several journalists including from the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were suspended from Twitter with no notice.
"So in effect, I was banned for something that when I posted it was not a violation of the terms of service, but retroactively was deemed to be that, which obviously has kind of negative implications for anybody who's doing coverage of Elon, where it seems like these rules can change kind of arbitrarily and based on his whims. And I guess the real lesson is that if they want to find a reason to ban people, you know, he can find that they can kind of come up with an explanation later on."
“Twitter's head of trust and safety said in an email to Reuters the team manually reviewed "any and all accounts" that violated the new privacy policy by posting direct links to the ElonJet account.
“Officials from France, Germany, the U.K. and the European Union condemned the suspensions, with some saying the platform was jeopardizing press freedom.
“Rupar said the platform - where he has built a large following - is key to reaching his audience, and a permanent ban would be a major professional setback.
"You know, it is kind of a little bit of a disconcerting reminder of how reliant people like myself have become on a platform that until a few months ago, I think we assumed that there were kind of rules of the road, that there was transparency, that you could appeal decisions like this. And what we're seeing is that that's kind of gone out the window and that, you know, it's whatever Elon wants these days is what he gets."
Neither the Reuters reporter, the UN, or the EU, or France, Germany or the UK, thought to consider, or report, the fact that Elon was taking polls all day about when exactly (not whether) he should restore the doxxes’ accounts.
No, it had to be a crisis in journalism around the globe.
On the same day Twitter Files Part Six by Matt Taibbi reveals smoking gun evidence that the FBI had 80 agents working on censoring Twitter—sending directives to terminate accounts they didn't like, including humor accounts. But that wasn't the crisis in press freedom. That wasn’t even news.
JD Rucker writes: “Somebody needs to go to jail.”
Meanwhile, the accounts were all restored tonight, as decided by popular vote on Twitter:
And Rupar, having no decency whatsoever, thanks his supportive “community.” Tells them that thanks to them, he pulled through. What a horse’s ass.
I'm gonna dispute the better food. It's communism but with much much more hormone laden meat and junk food to fatten you up and keep you fat, sick and on drugs for the rest of your lives. We're not much further behind our role models in the UK- 2/3rds of us are overweight or obese
I believe this is reaping the "reward" of a generation of helicoptered kids, now all growed up😉😂🤣
Combine that with the parents of said helicoptered, who were too busy being angsty to deal with THEIR trauma from childhood, and instead chose to sanctimoniously "never parent like my ***** (insert applicable adjective here) parents". Now we have two generations of entitled, angsty, school bullies that need more than a twitter "time out" and some sensory blankies!
In trying to protect the kids from "school of hard knocks" style, we have inadvertently created privileged monsters that don't even understand how far past wrong that behaviour (doxxing) IS!!