Wither Twitter – another update

Wither Twitter – another update
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Elon Musk captured Twitter last month. Now, apparently, comes the grinding-down and rooting-out of the thought police that have ruled it since Jack Dorsey’s day. Or does it? Leftists are squealing, and conservatives are celebrating – all but one. And that one might be the only one to keep Elon Musk, and Twitter, honest.
Latest reforms of Twitter
Recall that Elon Musk reinstated Donald J. Trump’s account. To this day, Trump has not left anything new; the most recent tweet dates to January 8, 2021. The Anti-Defamation League and its CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, howled like banshees, as did other leftists.
But the most remarkable part of the saga of Trump returning to Twitter was this poll:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985
Now compare that result, with this poll that Musk commissioned on whether to restore all suspended accounts, so long as the account holders had broken no laws, nor dumped large quantities of spam on the platform:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595473875847942146
The second result no doubt reflects the clean-up of “bots”. Note how many fewer “votes” this poll recorded than the last one. In any event, Musk, true to his word, said the mass reinstatement would start next week.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595869526469533701
Now consider this graphic he shared:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595630109116989440
A spike to ten million “hate speech impressions,” before a decline to about one-third lower than previous baseline? Where did they come from? Elon seemed to know how many and who they were:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595646886844710914
But he credited a simple reform: limiting the number of tweets a day.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595653241605591041
Whatever the limit was, it seems to have cramped the styles of “bots” and addicts.
Interesting disclosures
Four days ago, Musk found something breathtaking: a closet full of “merch” with a clearly leftist theme.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057
Who commissioned all those T shirts? Thus far, no one will take credit for it.
Much more serious is this observation Musk made when another user asked about analytical manipulation at Twitter:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595534031545765890
Elon Musk also affirmed this more serious charge:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595605877712642050
Here Musk seemed to promise to share the minutes of all discussions that led the platform to block The New York Post from posting about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595637837969653760
The Associated Press seemed to out-banshee the ADL. They suggest “online safety experts predict” the coming general amnesty “will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation.”
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1595886746520244226
Musk is having none of such scare talk.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595976636088057857
Who indeed are those “online safety experts”? Maybe they consist only of two successive Trust and Safety Officers who have lost their jobs. Maybe they also include this former subordinate of theirs:
https://twitter.com/Johnmcurtis/status/1595415504742760448
On the current path, I’m … really, really worried about Twitter’s future…. Over time, these things build up, and the site will become more abusive, more extreme, and less reliable over time.
Melissa Engels, former Twitter moderator
Is that so?
Selective application of the Twitter Rules
The real problem at Twitter has always been inconsistent and selective application of the “Twitter Rules.” And those Rules say nothing about having to be leftist in outlook, unless you count weapons sales. (Gab permits weapons sales but forbids sales of financial products or services, or anything to do with endangered animals.)
Dinesh D’Souza knows this. When Elon said the AP were experts in misinformation, D’Souza heartily agreed:
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1596175612997140484
He also agreed with the proposed audit of the decision to suppress the Hunter Biden Laptop Story:
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1595988596690890752
Here he directly confirmed the selective application of the rules:
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1594822164380885030
To which Elon Musk replied, “Correct.” But leftists tried to pretend otherwise. See, for example:
https://twitter.com/_ULTRA_MAGA_/status/1594928986211352577
Then we have someone who tried to suggest that the Twitter Rules were more extensive than they are:
https://twitter.com/DarylynnM/status/1594829782243774464
In fact the Civic Integrity policy does not specifically forbid anyone to question the fairness of an election. Furthermore:
organic content that is polarizing, biased, hyperpartisan, or contains controversial viewpoints expressed about elections or politics
does not violate the Twitter Rules. The Rules themselves say it does not. Maybe Melissa Engels thought it did. But she was wrong, and previous management was just as wrong to let her punish people for it.
The skeptics call out from Telegram
CNAV tips the hat to Steven Crowder for the first clues in our research. See here, here, and here.
Two prime skeptics on the right, remain. Laura Loomer is one. Four years ago she lost her account, the first step to becoming “the most banned woman in America.” In fact To Loomer became a verb meaning “to ban comprehensively from all conventional platforms.”
In response to Elon Musk’s promise of general amnesty, Loomer said:
Guess that means we are all getting our twitter accounts back next week.🙃🙃 Ok… I will believe it when I see it though. I don’t have much faith in anyone or anything these days. 👽
Later that day she sent two lengthy Telegram messages about
• How it was to lose her Twitter account the day before Thanksgiving, and
• Her desire for vengeance against those who ignored or made light of the censorship.
Andrew Torba – and a sanitized account?
Andrew Torba recently did something that seriously harms his credibility – or else he suffered a curious sanction on Telegram. All of his messages, from May 25, 2022 to November 23, 2022, have simply vanished. That has never happened to a Telegram user before, and one must wonder who made it happen. Did he sanitize his account, or did they? No one will say.
In any case, he has taken note of Musk’s boast about fewer “hate” impressions. He then posted a dire prediction of what will happen after the amnesty goes into effect:
Here is what comes next:
#TheNoticing in every reply thread on the site naming them (based)
App Store bans
Amazon AWS ban (Twitter feed is hosted there)
European countries ban
Payment processor bans
Continued advertiser exodus
That could be either a doubt that Musk is serious, or anticipatory schadenfreude. Torba will be first to point out that he has suffered all these things, and that’s why he built everything that anyone took away from him. This includes his own server farm and payment processing system, and a business model relying more on user fees.
CNAV will watch closely who else “comes back,” and will pay particular attention to Laura Loomer’s account. Laura Loomer aside, the criticisms all come from those who want a censorship regime, or a competitor still trying to establish his brand. But that competitor might be the only one to whom Elon Musk should pay the slightest attention.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2022/11/26/editorial/talk/twitter-another-update/

Elon’s polls and reforms:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595473875847942146
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595869526469533701
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595630109116989440
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595646886844710914
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595653241605591041

Elon’s discoveries and disclosures:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595534031545765890
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595605877712642050
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595637837969653760
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1595886746520244226
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595976636088057857

Interview with Melissa Engels:
https://twitter.com/Johnmcurtis/status/1595415504742760448

The Twitter Rules:
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

Commentary by:
Dinesh D’Souza:
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1596175612997140484
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1595988596690890752
https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1594822164380885030

Kanye West:
https://twitter.com/_ULTRA_MAGA_/status/1594928986211352577

“SoCal Persister”:
https://twitter.com/DarylynnM/status/1594829782243774464

Laura Loomer (via Telegram):
https://t.me/loomeredofficial/21682
https://t.me/loomeredofficial/21689
https://t.me/loomeredofficial/21690

Andrew Torba (via Telegram):
https://t.me/gabtrends/9317
https://t.me/gabtrends/9319

Declarations of Truth Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/DecTruth

Conservative News and Views:
https://cnav.news/

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https://cnav.store/

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