Elon Musk Bans CrimethInc. From Twitter at the Urging of Far-Right Troll

https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-bans-crimethinc-from-twitter-on-request-from-far-right-troll

by deanCommie • 4 years ago

24 13 4 years ago

The website appears to be mostly just an insane rant. That said, I don't think it should have been banned either, outside of doing something specifically illegal.

(Edit: also, I've never heard of Andy Ngo, the person the site is accusing of being a "far right troll", but it's pretty clearly a highly editorialized title, even if it accurately reflects the title of the original article)

sp332• 4 years ago

I think it's a pretty good description. Even Wikipedia doesn't have much else to say about him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Ngo

version_five2• 4 years ago

I looked at the wikipedia article before I made my comment. It appears neutral, even if they don't have anything nice to say about him, they don't participate in name-calling, which is what I'm suggesting for the title

BulgarianIdiot• 4 years ago

It's quite bizarre to constantly hear Elon Musk talk about free speech and unbanning everyone, and then this ongoing list of left-leaning accounts get nuked. And not just left-leaning. The Oatmeal's Twitter account (https://theoatmeal.com/) was "permanently banned" couple of days ago for no given reason. Activism got it back, but imagine you're not popular. Your account is gone forever just like that. It's pure chaos.

matbatt382• 4 years ago

Can you elaborate on "insane rant"?

paulpauper• 4 years ago

After reading the twitter thread and the link, i don't think it should have been banned unless it actually called for violence at a location or against an individual.

matbatt382• 4 years ago

Which Trump did and he still got unbanned

licebmi__at__• 4 years ago

Maybe we can stop pretending "muh free speech" is something more than a right wing talking point, and what these "free speech absolutists" actually want is to prop up right wing talking points and ban left leaning ones. Just stop the lying about.

taolegal2• 4 years ago

There's no lying, and that you're suggesting that they're lying reveals your own bias. And it also reveals that you don't support the idea of free speech, since you seem to believe it's only a politically motivated concept.

deanCommie• 4 years ago

If you support the idea of free speech, do you support banning CrimethInc?

If you do, do you also support banning anti-vaxx misinformation at the height of a societal health crisis?

If you do not, do you support calling Musk out on his hypocrisy here?

Just clarifying.

papito• 4 years ago

Elon's little power trip as his own lord of Twitter Land and the King of the People is really going speeding towards pathetic levels.

Who is he trying to impress? We know this is all an act, and the thin-skinned vulgarian will get all discombobulated at the first sign of being questioned.

But what's truly remarkable is his almost overnight alignment with disinformation peddlers, trolls, and insurrectionists. I mean, wow, way to flame out. Tip of a hat, sire.

Really, question your life choices if you care about what the convicted felon Dinesh D'Souza thinks.

Elon Musk Bans CrimethInc. From Twitter at the Urging of Far-Right Troll

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