All of a sudden, America’s corporate media have woken up to the threat of Big Tech censorship. After years of ‘liberal’ journalists agitating for Twitter, Facebook and the rest to censor people they dislike, repeating all the same platitudes about ‘misinformation’ and ‘hate speech’, insisting that being banned from the digital public square is really no different to being banned by a fast-food joint, they’re now all reaching for their JS Mill and railing against the tyranny of Silicon Valley.
Welcome, comrades! What took you so long? Only, of course, these people still don’t care one bit about free speech and are only really outraged now because, for once, it is people they know, like and agree with who are being censored. …
This pro-free-speech shtick might have been more convincing if Musk’s critics hadn’t spent the past few months railing against his decision to reinstate controversial accounts. Or if they hadn’t played such an outsized role in getting Twitter to start censoring so many accounts in the first place. Some journalists have really embraced the cognitive dissonance in recent days, slamming Musk for banning those journalists while also slamming him for unbanning so many undesirables, often in the same breath.
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