Sunday Thoughts December 4, 2022

Watching the Twitter drama, I am reminded of something I talked about on Friday with regards to how these shows play out. There is never anyone on the stage who will ask the questions that need to be asked of the main players. Everyone is so busy slobbering over Musk for releasing some data or denouncing him as a blasphemer that nothing useful is asked of him. Everything gets tossed into the blender, pulsed around and it becomes a colorless slurry.

For example, I would like to know if there was coordination between Twitter and other tech companies to silence people. It sure looks like there was coordination. Alex Jones lost all of his accounts, even minor stuff, within a few hours on the same day. Normal people targeted by Antifa, the SPLC and ADL have found that their accounts were all closed simultaneously. It sure looks like there has been a high level of coordination in these efforts. Where is the data on that?

Similarly, what about these pressure groups? There has been a rumor for years now that the SPLC and ADL have access to a centralized ban list. These two groups have bragged for years that they have access to senior people at the big social media firms. It would be nice to see the correspondence between top people at these outfits with regards to censorship. If Musk genuinely cares about openness, he could crush these censures by simply posting their own words.

An even bigger question is how much Twitter worked with bad actors. There were stories that a Saudi spy at Twitter helped with the abduction of Khashoggi. We now know Twitter was full of thousands of people loyal to Antifa. Is it unreasonable to suspect that they were feeding user information to Antifa in the doxing campaigns? It would be a good question to ask Elon Musk, but one that will never be asked, so it will never be answered.

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