Tables turned

So a group of prog Twitter users were suspended en masse from the platform Thursday evening without explanation, huh? 

As has been revealed in the "Twitter files" released by different journalists over the past few weeks, the old regime had a strong bias towards conservatives when determining alleged violations of their terms of service. And when the unequal application was called out by righties, progs usually responded with a derivative of "bUt It'S a PrIvAtE cOmPaNy." 

New CEO Elon Musk appeared briefly on an audio conference to discuss the latest suspensions. 

 

“You doxx, you get suspended. End of story. That's it,” Musk said, explaining his latest policy to the group, before he left minutes after having joined the discussion.

Musk was referring to Twitter's latest rule change about accounts that track private jets, including one owned by Musk himself, which was put in place Wednesday.

Of course the prog spin is Musk can't handle criticism from these individuals, so he's nuking their accounts out of spite. Again, as we were reminded during the COVID pandemic and 2020 presidential campaign, the company is totally free to determine what content is allowed on their site.  However, Musk had indicated earlier this year that he desired for his fervent critics to remain active given he was a big believer in free speech. As such, this latest action has people, fairly or unfairly, labeling him a massive hypocrite. 

In the end, I do not believe the journalists who had their Twitter accounts suspended should have been removed. However, I don't have a ton of sympathy this collection given they lauded the removal of a sitting President of the United States nearly two years ago but had nary a word to say about members of thuggish foreign regimes still able to remain active on the site. But the exact opposite is also true. For those of us who believed it was an utter disgrace for the New York Post to be locked out of its account for publishing a potentially damaging story to the 2020 Democrat candidate for President but are OK with leftists being removed without explanation, we have no moral high ground. 

The good news is I'm seeing a lot more conservatives decrying Twitter's latest suspensions than I ever saw of leftists lamenting their political opposites being suspended arbitrarily. If anything, this exercise has laid bare the progs' utter hypocrisy on this issue. 

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