Mr. Free Speech Musk Twitter Bans Aaron Rupar And Keith Olbermann!

Twitter bans progressive blogger Aaron Rupar.

The far right is praising Elon Musk for bringing the #TwitterFiles to light. The release of Twitter top executives making a final decision on whether they should allow the New York Post run an article about Hunter Biden and his laptop. The feds said that it could be a disinformation campaign by the Russian Federation. Twitter took it seriously and blocked the far right tabloid from pushing it. As a private company, it can do as it pleases. 

The noise claims it was censorship and felt that despite the thousands of Americans dying from a pandemic, economic free fall and Americans felt motivated for new leadership, Republicans believed it could have been a game changer for Washed Up 45.

Musk, who owns Tesla and SpaceX has been notoriously active in promoting anti-vaccine and conspiracy theories decided to purchase Twitter because of a bot account lawfully tracking his private jet movements. Musk was forced to buy Twitter after the social media company sued him for breach of contract and deceptive practices.

Musk and Republicans are willing to work with unison to promote more noise.

Now with Republicans in slim control of the House of Representatives, their goal will not be the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the economic recovery or domestic extremism.

Their priorities are culture wars, investigating Hunter Biden, investigating Hillary Clinton, the Tara Reade allegation, ban abortion and call for impeachment  of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas.

Keith Olbermann got banned due to his criticism of Musk on his podcast.

Musk is advocating "free speech" only when it suits him. He banned the @elonjet account on Twitter. He also banned the creator Jack Sweeney, one of the reasons why he bought Twitter for $45 billion.

On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation.

Keith Olbermann, The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Mashable’s Matt Binder, and journalist Aaron Rupar were also suspended Thursday evening. Many of the reporters regularly covered Musk’s takeover of Twitter in recent months. 

Rupar weighed in on his suspension on Substack, observing that while he did not know why his account was deactivated, he did share a link to the ElonJet Facebook account in the course of reporting on the subject. Through an alternate account, Mac shared the message he received from Twitter and noted that there was no warning before the permanent suspension

The situation followed the company’s decision to suspend the Twitter account of Mastodon, an open source social media alternative that’s built momentum since Elon Musk took over at the company. Twitter took action against Mastodon after the account linked to the Mastodon page of @ElonJet, a student-made bot that tracks the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet.

@ElonJet got banned on Twitter.

At least some of the accounts suspended had shared screenshots and observations about Mastodon’s suspension. Just prior to his suspension, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell tweeted about Mastodon being kicked off the platform.

Some of the suspended accounts shared Mastodon and ElonJet’s Twitter handles as well as images of the tweet that appears to have gotten the former account suspended.

In light of Twitter’s reduced human moderation teams, it’s possible that automated systems enforcing Twitter’s brand new rules against accounts like @ElonJet were overzealous in this instance. But it’s at least as likely that this is a case of Musk directing the moderation process based on his own preferences — we just won’t know until someone at Twitter explains what’s going on.