Elon Musk Blasts Twitter Over Noted Author and Psychologist Jordan Peterson's Suspension

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Elon Musk Blasts Twitter Over Noted Author and Psychologist Jordan Peterson's Suspension
Red State ^ | 07/05/2022 | Nick Arama

Posted on 07/06/2022 10:01:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

We saw Twitter suspend author and psychologist Jordan Peterson in June because he “deadnamed” transgender actor Elliot Page.

Twitter told him he could get back his account if he deleted the tweet in question. The tweet said, “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.” But Peterson said he would “rather die” than do so. His daughter wrote about it.

Wow. @jordanbpeterson got a twitter strike. No more twitter until he deletes the tweet. Definitely not a free speech platform at the moment @elonmusk

pic.twitter.com/YuBTwnjz5W
— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaFuller) June 29, 2022

Then Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report got suspended for reporting on Peterson’s suspension. It’s not clear how what Rubin said violated any of the Twitter rules.

Twitter @TwitterSafety suspended @RubinReport because he reported on Jordan Peterson’s own Twitter suspension. Here’s his statement. Cc @elonmusk

pic.twitter.com/qqw8Owjpes
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) July 5, 2022

While content like this is resulting in users getting suspended, as my colleague Sister Toldjah observed, threats against Supreme Court justices are not.

People paged Elon Musk, who is still in the process of his effort to buy Twitter. The NY Post’s Karol Markowicz appealed to Musk to speak out.

“Think this through. I think Jordan Peterson’s suspension for deadnaming is also stupid but say you don’t. Someone is not allowed to tweet about his suspension with any detail,” she wrote. “You can not tweet what he did. Middle schoolers are running this place. Elon Musk should comment.”

Now Musk has responded and is weighing in on Peterson’s suspension.

Yeah, they’re going way too far in squashing dissenting opinions
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

July 5, 2022

He also had a little fun on Independence Day with Twitter’s effort to place warnings on people’s tweets by posting the following meme.

pic.twitter.com/sUrsfucQ2F
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 4, 2022

It’s not clear when Musk’s Twitter deal will be completed. But it is clear that if he does complete the deal, he intends to implement a big change to stop such suspensions. People are desperate for that change because the platform is just a mess with decisions like this. There’s no consistency or fairness. If he can truly bring it back to what he envisions — a true town square that doesn’t shut down people to stifle their political opinions — then he will have done all a great service. That’s what people are hoping, but any change would be welcome at this point, given the way the platform has been run into the ground.

TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; freespeech; jordanpeterson; musk; socialmedia; suspension; truthsocial; twitter

1 posted on 07/06/2022 10:01:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

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OMFG! That tweet captures our dystopian fever dream moment! That tweet is art of the highest order.

2 posted on 07/06/2022 10:09:27 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)

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To: SeekAndFind

The problem is, if the likes of Twitter cannot delete posts that it sees as offensive, then how can the likes of FR?

3 posted on 07/07/2022 6:02:16 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)

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To: SeekAndFind

I got put in twitter jail yesterday too. I make the mistake of telling the truth about transwomen.

“They are not women they are mentally ill men”.

Twitter could not handle that, so off to twitter jail I go. I’ll be happy when Musk takes over twitter.

4 posted on 07/07/2022 6:19:04 AM PDT by jpsb

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“They are not women they are mentally ill men”

...who don't want to be called FAGGOT.

5 posted on 07/07/2022 8:11:18 AM PDT by cayuga (A gov't that can take your AR-15 can take anything else it wants.)

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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

6 posted on 07/07/2022 10:08:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

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Define “offensive”. The problem is the woke moderators on Twitter find almost everything to be “offensive” and have no understanding of the meaning of free speech.

7 posted on 07/07/2022 12:33:30 PM PDT by ELS

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"Define “offensive”. The problem is the woke moderators on Twitter find almost everything to be “offensive” and have no understanding of the meaning of free speech."

Yes, offensive is subjectively defined, and broad ambiguous terms are often used which is subjectively defined, thus enabling censorship for whatever crosses the obtuse line. For instance, Verizon's Acceptable Use Policy states in part, Verizon reserves the sole discretion to deny or restrict your Service, or immediately to suspend or terminate your Service, if the use of your Service by you or anyone using it, in our sole discretion, violates the Agreement or other Verizon policies, is objectionable...

Comcast Cloud Solutions Terms of Service (for businesses) states, in part, BY USING THE CLOUD SOLUTIONS MARKETPLACE YOU AGREE NOT TO post, upload, or distribute any User Submission (as defined in Section 8 below) or other content that is defamatory....inaccurate... or that a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, offensive,...threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise inappropriate.

However, why should Twitter not be able to "zot" those it finds offensive just as FR is able to? Fairness doctrine?

8 posted on 07/07/2022 7:52:54 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)

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