And in related news, a judge reaffirms the Oberlin KS College $36 million dollar settlement payment to the bakery that it attacked and slandered. And DeSantis goes to war with Disney. Do we dare hope that the woke project is starting to get enough attention and forces are building to send it to the garbage heap where it belongs?
There is a tragic lack of freedom of speech in America across multiple venues. I pray Musk can help turn this around...not solely on Twitter, but it would be a great start.
Even if Alex Berenson is immediately reinstated, he should take his suit to trial and a permanently enforceable verdict. Freedom of online speech needs to be enshrined, and not be at the whim of whoever is in charge of the anti-social social forums.
I’m of the belief if you think Twitter suppressed our freedom of speech one of our most coveted articles in our Constitution and you were American that you would have dropped this App long ago? Guess I was wrong!
"Starting to feel like one way or another I’m gonna be back on Twitter very soon"
Alex, you have a tendency to think it's all about you. We've all heard this news, so the only reasons for your posting seem to be 1: To post because you enjoy posting. and 2: To make the post about you.
Would prefer if you're going to publish something along these lines, that you made some hopefully insightful comments about Musk and his stock purchase and what it might mean for the country.
Somewhere I ready a good explanation for what is wrong with the Twitter Tweet model. It had to do with the limited text and the interface design as an asynchronous flow of comments and not really a conversation. It is like a fire-hose of snarky and mean headlines with subheadlines without the need for any detailed content to back up the headlines.
The language psychology of this is that people immediately tend to run hot in reaction to something they read that they like or dislike... but would otherwise cool down a bit to a more rational actor if having a conversation about the topic.
It is a bullying platform in my opinion... and some people are very good at bullying and revel in Twitter's existence. Frankly, I would be happier if Twitter just went away... or else got redesigned into something where people could share cat pictures.
These tech "giants" are like all large organizations - the real control rests with the HR departments and managers cooperating with each other to screen individuals with the same viewpoints, including gender, race, political leanings, etc.
Tech companies tend to hire very young people that for many reasons, have not experieinced real life challenges and the affects of liberal policies. They can be right out of college, which is the equivalent of brain-washing theses days and therefore view employment as a mission driven by group-think.
In most large organizations you can exist for years without doing anything productive as long as your boss ends up looking good and his boss . . . . all the way to the top guy
It is very rare for a CEO to have an affect on the day-to-day stuff and their goals are to keep the board of directors and the largest shareholders happy through compensation, which includes dividends.
The CEO typically rides out the normal business cycles, taking the stage when things are good, and then retreating to backrooms when things turn south. That's when the damage control starts which typically takes the form of stock buy-backs and other accounting tricks to support the stock's price - again keep the largest share-holders happy.
That is not to say that the right person can't make a difference. A good example of this was GE. When Jack Welsh was in charge the company prospered. Then Emelt took over and being a rock-star was more important than running the company. The company has never recovered and in many was is considered a has-been.
Musk seems to be the kind of person that could turn this around. He is direct and capable of executing a vision. He is not a 1-trick pony like Zuckerberg or Bezos and doesn't really seem to care about what people think of him. He is not obsessed with popularity or going to high profile meetings in Europe to rub elbows with others who have become rich through trusts,, endowments, and other none-productive means.
Above all he does not seem to care about which way the wind is blowing as a means of determining his next move. Twitter has to be changed from the bottom up and big tech needs to be striped from their platform protection.
Musk should push congress for getting rid of all special treatment of these large platforms and that single move would make a huge difference in improving free speech. He has to make changes from the bottom up and top down. The people that are making the big decisions are there because they believed in restricing free speach - they are not going to change. Their underlings are also marching to the same toon so he will have a big challenge and there will most certainly be "sabotage" efforts at every turn.
Is Elon the George Washington of tech? Accumulates a ton of power and wealth in order to wrest control away from the overlords to give back to the people.
I think this move by Elon is a start in reaffirmation that the Great Experiment continues to work as individual patriots can rise to positions of influence to help thwart the tyranny of totalitarianism.
However, here is where the rubber needs to to meet the road for the final defeat of the woke project which is part of the Globalist Great Reset Project.
And look to Hungary with the landslide re-election of Victor Orban and his party who campaigned on national identity, controlled borders, Christian conservative principles of classic liberalism, and a rejection of George Soros globalism.
What we need is a veto-proof Republican majority in the Senate and House, and then the people should demand that Republicans go to work on a landmark new civil rights bill that would crush any institution that tramples on First Amendment rights, or that gives preference in anything based on race, gender, political orientation, etc.
We need to repeal Section 230 protection for big tech. We need to fire up the anti-trust engine (did you know that four mega companies own 90+ percent of all the tens of thousands of brands in the supermarket!?)... break those mega companies apart and reinvigorate the small business economy of smaller producers... were everyman has an opportunity to work his ass of, take a few risks and be a millionaire.
The Democrats need to be knocked so far back that they go to war internally to decide what ideology they want to pursue... woke Marxist victimology, big business globalism. or American working class advocacy. We would be doing the party a favor by electing a Republican super majority.
Hopefully Alex will eventually get back onto Twitter. He's insightful about 75% of the time and his voice needs to be heard (even if he is egregiously wrong on the Ivermectin issue).
The real "town square" is Facebook. People who think like me often diss me for even using it (or trying to use it), but it is the forum where a cross-section of the country communicates with each other. So if anyone wants to change or challenge dubious narratives, he or she really needs to be able to communicate with their neighbors. As far as I can tell, Facebook is being far more "proactive" in banning speech than Twitter. I'm currently off because I have not signed up for "Facebook Protect" - this after having my account suspended for different periods of time for posting the proverbial correct "misinformation." I wish Musk had bought a controlling interest in Facebook. This said, I doubt Twitter will become even more Orwellian with Musk being the largest shareholder. Then again, once you start censoring, it's hard to stop.
Why bother? It's infested. It has no hope of rehabilitation. It's like Elon and you are trying to revive a stinking, fly blown, maggotty, disease riddled carcass. Get outta there.
One, Alex seems to have an unhealth obsession with being in the lefty cool kids club, i.e. Twitter. It's just weird. He acts like a man still lost and wandering in the Sahara without it.
Two, while the Musk involvement seems a positive development generally, I'd temper expectations. Musk isn't that far removed from the ideology of Jack and Jack ultimately found it a wiser choice to hit the eject button rather than "BOOM" button.
Are we sure he is not a Trojan horse to reduce our steam? The world Mafia wouldn’t let anybody have so much power and money if he doesn’t play along. I don’t exclude that he is playing the good police with the angel face.
Well he has the ability to single-handedly tank their stock if he now dumps his. That's interesting leverage to have over a bunch of champagne socialists.
Yet it does give me pause just how many are hoping for the next superman to fly in and save America. I'd rather see legal precedent used -and further set - regarding the Constitutional rights and privileges, as well as those pesky inalienable rights, we hold (held?) to be self-evident. Hoping for the grace of benevolent tech-narchy is this century's version of hoping your fealty to the local feudal lord will keep your family safe.
Alex.......I will continue to pay to read your writings a on Substack, follow you on Telegram, would follow you on GETTR, and maybe a few other platforms, but I will never return to Twitter notwithstanding whatever Elon Musk's motivations might be. Never
I hope Alex gets back on Twitter, and all this social media banning (censorship) gets stopped, but I don't have much hope. As of about two months ago, I thought I saw some narratives cracking and was thinking about giving my millennial ultra-woke but frustrated grown kids in Boston the copy of Pandemia I bought for them. But it seems like the new standard beliefs: Forever COVID; Forever Masks; when is the next booster?, Trump will win in 2024 and we will all die; STOP Misinformation!!; Talking about freedom makes you a low-class right-winger; Public schools don't need to listen to parents; Children are virus vectors, keep them masked!; We are ashamed we are white, We have to be constantly sad due to Covid, Ukraine, etc; Stay home and watch Netflix; Mom-you sneezed: you are a virus vector, although vaccinated stay away!; Baby has been mostly indoors since birth because we think she will get Long Covid because no baby vax yet........need I continue? The nonsense has quickly seeped into our fabric. Those that see through it walk on eggshells; we are pariahs if we don't play along and fib or we will be disrespected, or worse, rejected. The book remains on my bookshelf. The seemingly permanent reduction in the quality, meaning and usefulness of their lives is what pains me most.
Maybe they’ll just put you back on Twitter, Alex….but they’ll easily limit who can see you and mess around with all kinds of algorithms! The Left never gives up and WILL fight back probably in sneaky ways. Also, who’s to say that Musk (who made lots of money from the Government) is going to make a difference?
Didn't hurt that he got a 30% jump in the stock price after the announcement. Not a bad profit on a 2.9 billion dollar investment. Now... let's see what he can actually accomplish on that Board...
Cautiously optimistic. Let's see where this goes. Musk is a GREEN GUY (climate control advocate?), so I am not in his corner there for sure. His actions will tell us what we need to know.
He filed with the SEC as a “passive” investor, so much for that. I am not confident Musk can fix Twitter without buying more of the company. Most of the board members and the CEO are anti-free speech.
The idea Twitter wouldn't have allowed dirt on trump and his family if it came from hacked sources is one of the most laughable fucking things I've ever heard. I don't know how anyone could say that with a straight face. Had the media not been biased, the hunter Biden story would have sunk Joe Bidens campaign. Oh wait no it wouldn't have since they stole the election anyway.
What percentage of the adult population in the US use Twitter as their primary source of news anyway? Some may use it to reinforce or validate their own views, but I don't think it has much of a major effect on the masses. The local TV news probably has the greatest impact on the views of the general public.
I look forward to the day when women can tell males they are not women and never will be
And in related news, a judge reaffirms the Oberlin KS College $36 million dollar settlement payment to the bakery that it attacked and slandered. And DeSantis goes to war with Disney. Do we dare hope that the woke project is starting to get enough attention and forces are building to send it to the garbage heap where it belongs?
what is a Twitter?
Let's have a bet, Trump or Alex back first?
Saving America 1 billion at a time. GO ELON. ❤️
Babylon Bee, soon back on Twit.
I would love to be a fly on that Twitter board room wall for the first meeting.
Where have we come that this announcement *literally* brings tears to my eyes?
As long as that character who despises the 1st Amendment is in charge at Twitter, nothing will change until EM swallows the whole thing.
There is a tragic lack of freedom of speech in America across multiple venues. I pray Musk can help turn this around...not solely on Twitter, but it would be a great start.
I would still say that all should leave Twitter. They will probably remain a despicable organization
Tammy Bruce said you should be allowed back on when she was on Gutfeld last night
Twitter who?
Even if Alex Berenson is immediately reinstated, he should take his suit to trial and a permanently enforceable verdict. Freedom of online speech needs to be enshrined, and not be at the whim of whoever is in charge of the anti-social social forums.
I know this is important to you, Alex, but I do hope you won't give up your 'stack. And please don't give up the lawsuit! There's a precedent to set.
Also, let's wait-and-see what Elon Musk will do on Twitter's board. Don't be so quick to see him as a White Knight.
It's too soon to celebrate.
I’m of the belief if you think Twitter suppressed our freedom of speech one of our most coveted articles in our Constitution and you were American that you would have dropped this App long ago? Guess I was wrong!
Maybe. But they'll still ban all kinds of other dissident points of view. Like anybody who doubts the veracity of Ukraine's Bucha propaganda.
"Starting to feel like one way or another I’m gonna be back on Twitter very soon"
Alex, you have a tendency to think it's all about you. We've all heard this news, so the only reasons for your posting seem to be 1: To post because you enjoy posting. and 2: To make the post about you.
Would prefer if you're going to publish something along these lines, that you made some hopefully insightful comments about Musk and his stock purchase and what it might mean for the country.
Somewhere I ready a good explanation for what is wrong with the Twitter Tweet model. It had to do with the limited text and the interface design as an asynchronous flow of comments and not really a conversation. It is like a fire-hose of snarky and mean headlines with subheadlines without the need for any detailed content to back up the headlines.
The language psychology of this is that people immediately tend to run hot in reaction to something they read that they like or dislike... but would otherwise cool down a bit to a more rational actor if having a conversation about the topic.
It is a bullying platform in my opinion... and some people are very good at bullying and revel in Twitter's existence. Frankly, I would be happier if Twitter just went away... or else got redesigned into something where people could share cat pictures.
Since I don't like to waste my time on Twitter, I hope Alex keeps the Substack going.
These tech "giants" are like all large organizations - the real control rests with the HR departments and managers cooperating with each other to screen individuals with the same viewpoints, including gender, race, political leanings, etc.
Tech companies tend to hire very young people that for many reasons, have not experieinced real life challenges and the affects of liberal policies. They can be right out of college, which is the equivalent of brain-washing theses days and therefore view employment as a mission driven by group-think.
In most large organizations you can exist for years without doing anything productive as long as your boss ends up looking good and his boss . . . . all the way to the top guy
It is very rare for a CEO to have an affect on the day-to-day stuff and their goals are to keep the board of directors and the largest shareholders happy through compensation, which includes dividends.
The CEO typically rides out the normal business cycles, taking the stage when things are good, and then retreating to backrooms when things turn south. That's when the damage control starts which typically takes the form of stock buy-backs and other accounting tricks to support the stock's price - again keep the largest share-holders happy.
That is not to say that the right person can't make a difference. A good example of this was GE. When Jack Welsh was in charge the company prospered. Then Emelt took over and being a rock-star was more important than running the company. The company has never recovered and in many was is considered a has-been.
Musk seems to be the kind of person that could turn this around. He is direct and capable of executing a vision. He is not a 1-trick pony like Zuckerberg or Bezos and doesn't really seem to care about what people think of him. He is not obsessed with popularity or going to high profile meetings in Europe to rub elbows with others who have become rich through trusts,, endowments, and other none-productive means.
Above all he does not seem to care about which way the wind is blowing as a means of determining his next move. Twitter has to be changed from the bottom up and big tech needs to be striped from their platform protection.
Musk should push congress for getting rid of all special treatment of these large platforms and that single move would make a huge difference in improving free speech. He has to make changes from the bottom up and top down. The people that are making the big decisions are there because they believed in restricing free speach - they are not going to change. Their underlings are also marching to the same toon so he will have a big challenge and there will most certainly be "sabotage" efforts at every turn.
I Hope he is successful.
Hopefully the lawsuit sets a legal precedent. Benevolent oligarchs only get us so far
Careful what you wish for.
Fantastic. Cheaters NEVER prosper. Elon should put everyone they banned back on at once. Boom.
Is Elon the George Washington of tech? Accumulates a ton of power and wealth in order to wrest control away from the overlords to give back to the people.
I think this move by Elon is a start in reaffirmation that the Great Experiment continues to work as individual patriots can rise to positions of influence to help thwart the tyranny of totalitarianism.
However, here is where the rubber needs to to meet the road for the final defeat of the woke project which is part of the Globalist Great Reset Project.
And look to Hungary with the landslide re-election of Victor Orban and his party who campaigned on national identity, controlled borders, Christian conservative principles of classic liberalism, and a rejection of George Soros globalism.
What we need is a veto-proof Republican majority in the Senate and House, and then the people should demand that Republicans go to work on a landmark new civil rights bill that would crush any institution that tramples on First Amendment rights, or that gives preference in anything based on race, gender, political orientation, etc.
We need to repeal Section 230 protection for big tech. We need to fire up the anti-trust engine (did you know that four mega companies own 90+ percent of all the tens of thousands of brands in the supermarket!?)... break those mega companies apart and reinvigorate the small business economy of smaller producers... were everyman has an opportunity to work his ass of, take a few risks and be a millionaire.
The Democrats need to be knocked so far back that they go to war internally to decide what ideology they want to pursue... woke Marxist victimology, big business globalism. or American working class advocacy. We would be doing the party a favor by electing a Republican super majority.
Hopefully Alex will eventually get back onto Twitter. He's insightful about 75% of the time and his voice needs to be heard (even if he is egregiously wrong on the Ivermectin issue).
The real "town square" is Facebook. People who think like me often diss me for even using it (or trying to use it), but it is the forum where a cross-section of the country communicates with each other. So if anyone wants to change or challenge dubious narratives, he or she really needs to be able to communicate with their neighbors. As far as I can tell, Facebook is being far more "proactive" in banning speech than Twitter. I'm currently off because I have not signed up for "Facebook Protect" - this after having my account suspended for different periods of time for posting the proverbial correct "misinformation." I wish Musk had bought a controlling interest in Facebook. This said, I doubt Twitter will become even more Orwellian with Musk being the largest shareholder. Then again, once you start censoring, it's hard to stop.
He can offer input, but he can be outvoted on key issues still, no?
Wtf would you want to go back. Sub stack is so much better. Let twitter keep turning into a cesspool.
Why would you go back? Have you no standards?
Why bother? It's infested. It has no hope of rehabilitation. It's like Elon and you are trying to revive a stinking, fly blown, maggotty, disease riddled carcass. Get outta there.
Why would you want to?
Alex, I say this without understanding the financial implications to you, but for Gods sake stay off Twitter. Don’t help them make money!
Couple of things............
One, Alex seems to have an unhealth obsession with being in the lefty cool kids club, i.e. Twitter. It's just weird. He acts like a man still lost and wandering in the Sahara without it.
Two, while the Musk involvement seems a positive development generally, I'd temper expectations. Musk isn't that far removed from the ideology of Jack and Jack ultimately found it a wiser choice to hit the eject button rather than "BOOM" button.
Are we sure he is not a Trojan horse to reduce our steam? The world Mafia wouldn’t let anybody have so much power and money if he doesn’t play along. I don’t exclude that he is playing the good police with the angel face.
Well he has the ability to single-handedly tank their stock if he now dumps his. That's interesting leverage to have over a bunch of champagne socialists.
Yet it does give me pause just how many are hoping for the next superman to fly in and save America. I'd rather see legal precedent used -and further set - regarding the Constitutional rights and privileges, as well as those pesky inalienable rights, we hold (held?) to be self-evident. Hoping for the grace of benevolent tech-narchy is this century's version of hoping your fealty to the local feudal lord will keep your family safe.
Alex.......I will continue to pay to read your writings a on Substack, follow you on Telegram, would follow you on GETTR, and maybe a few other platforms, but I will never return to Twitter notwithstanding whatever Elon Musk's motivations might be. Never
I hope Alex gets back on Twitter, and all this social media banning (censorship) gets stopped, but I don't have much hope. As of about two months ago, I thought I saw some narratives cracking and was thinking about giving my millennial ultra-woke but frustrated grown kids in Boston the copy of Pandemia I bought for them. But it seems like the new standard beliefs: Forever COVID; Forever Masks; when is the next booster?, Trump will win in 2024 and we will all die; STOP Misinformation!!; Talking about freedom makes you a low-class right-winger; Public schools don't need to listen to parents; Children are virus vectors, keep them masked!; We are ashamed we are white, We have to be constantly sad due to Covid, Ukraine, etc; Stay home and watch Netflix; Mom-you sneezed: you are a virus vector, although vaccinated stay away!; Baby has been mostly indoors since birth because we think she will get Long Covid because no baby vax yet........need I continue? The nonsense has quickly seeped into our fabric. Those that see through it walk on eggshells; we are pariahs if we don't play along and fib or we will be disrespected, or worse, rejected. The book remains on my bookshelf. The seemingly permanent reduction in the quality, meaning and usefulness of their lives is what pains me most.
Maybe they’ll just put you back on Twitter, Alex….but they’ll easily limit who can see you and mess around with all kinds of algorithms! The Left never gives up and WILL fight back probably in sneaky ways. Also, who’s to say that Musk (who made lots of money from the Government) is going to make a difference?
I left Twitter but still on Facebook.. usually in “ jail “
Didn't hurt that he got a 30% jump in the stock price after the announcement. Not a bad profit on a 2.9 billion dollar investment. Now... let's see what he can actually accomplish on that Board...
Cautiously optimistic. Let's see where this goes. Musk is a GREEN GUY (climate control advocate?), so I am not in his corner there for sure. His actions will tell us what we need to know.
He filed with the SEC as a “passive” investor, so much for that. I am not confident Musk can fix Twitter without buying more of the company. Most of the board members and the CEO are anti-free speech.
Me too
All Alex cares about is getting back on Twitter.
No one said he was the savior. and if you think we are living in a democracy or constitutional republic I'm afraid I've got some bad news.
The idea Twitter wouldn't have allowed dirt on trump and his family if it came from hacked sources is one of the most laughable fucking things I've ever heard. I don't know how anyone could say that with a straight face. Had the media not been biased, the hunter Biden story would have sunk Joe Bidens campaign. Oh wait no it wouldn't have since they stole the election anyway.
What percentage of the adult population in the US use Twitter as their primary source of news anyway? Some may use it to reinforce or validate their own views, but I don't think it has much of a major effect on the masses. The local TV news probably has the greatest impact on the views of the general public.