Keith Olbermann suspended from Twitter. (Credit: Twitter)
Posted on 12/15/2022 7:36:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
My colleague Bonchie wrote Thursday evening about the suspension of journalist Aaron Rupar’s Twitter account, and already more suspensions have been handed down as the night progresses. Locked out of their accounts: bombastic critic-of-everything Keith Olbermann, New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, and Mashable writer Matt Binder. Independent journalist Tony Webster’s account was also suspended as of Thursday evening, as was Intercept reporter Micah Lee’s.
Keith Rn 🤣 pic.twitter.com/fmx0MUGUWF
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) December 16, 2022
Olbermann’s toxic personality cost him his gig at MSNBC, and he’s famous for posting racist tweets (and then deleting them), calling everybody who doesn’t agree with him a fascist, and generally being a cranky, seemingly-unhinged flamethrower. You can’t access some of his more controversial tweets at the moment, because Olbermann is on a time-out:
Keith Olbermann suspended from Twitter. (Credit: Twitter)
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Twitter has yet to explain its rationale for suspending the accounts, but CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that anyone “doxxing” other people or revealing their current whereabouts will be suspended or terminated because they’re putting folks in danger.
The billionaire has a personal reason for his strong views on the matter: On Wednesday a person stalked Musk’s family. As RedState’s Nick Arama reported, “the person blocked his family’s car, thinking Elon was in it, and climbed on the hood of the car. Musk’s toddler son was in the car.”
Scary stuff. Arama also wrote that the “crazy stalker” Elon described was wearing Antifa-like clothes, but Musk’s people were able to get photos of the perp and his license plate.
Twitter’s suspension of the account @ElonJet Wednesday caused lots of chatter and may have led up to the rash of Thursday evening suspensions. @ElonJet earned celebrity status by posting information about the whereabouts of the mogul’s private plane. The Verge explains:
On Wednesday, Twitter suspended @ElonJet and @ElonJet’s creator and introduced a new policy against sharing live location information. That includes sharing “links to 3rd-party URL(s) of travel routes,” and it appears Twitter counts a link to @ElonJet’s Mastodon account as a violation of the policy.
In yet another suspension, Twitter has suspended the account of Mastodon, the Twitter-wannabe social media site, after they linked to the suspended ElonJet account. Got it?
The left will certainly explode over these suspensions, even as they stood idly by and didn’t care or write long opinion pieces or post passionate tweets when it was conservatives who were getting shadow banned, suspended, and kicked off the platform. Indeed they’re already whining: “A spokesman for the New York Times called the suspensions ‘questionable and unfortunate’ in a statement Thursday night.”
Musk posted a Tweet at 6:20 PST:
Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2022
This is a fast-moving story, and we’ll update you as new information comes in.
It would be especially juicy if Musk is making up the threats to his family - basically using the same technique the Democrats use to collectively punish conservatives.
...but I suspect it’s real, in this case.
Next he needs to banish the idiots with Resist, J6, pronouns,rainbow/Ukraine flags, blue wave,still with her etc in their bios.
Ahhghh, Keith Olbermann, the biggest a$$hole on the planet.
Why has he popped up, in the news?
Criminal losers never, ever leave the scene of the crime.
That bastard has always ruined my day....just by seeing his scumbag name in print or face on the TV!
Eat it Keith. Just eat it.
Nah, that’s not what Twitter is for. FR does that instead.
If Olberjerk was calling for Musk’s assassination, then yeah, he needed to be suspended. I am sure that there are many unhinged liberals who would love to be the one that “got” Musk.
They doxxed Elon and pointed to where to find his car.
One psycho jumped on the hood of the car with his son in the car.
Besides, it’s a private company.... they can learn to code... they should just go start their own company if they don’t like it. Riiiiiiight?
Lol!! Suck it, Keith.
RE: Nah, that’s not what Twitter is for. FR does that instead.
Remember back when Giuliani was running for President in 2008? There were a huge number of FReepers who were enthusiastically supporting him. After a very nasty debate between pro and contra Giuliani posters, the pro-Giuliani posters were banned from posting.
I am not sure if their accounts have been restored.
“The meltdown has begun, the immunity is gone and the playing field is now even.”
“In the last 24 hours, Twitter has (1) censored Ukrainians, (2) suspended accounts posting open-source info on oligarchs, and (3) suspended serious journalists just doing their jobs”
https://twitter.com/squatsons/status/1603571099387564032
Twitter probably smells a lot better now that the trash has been taken out.
Olbergruppenfuhrer should be suspended by his neck.
Doxxing SHOULD be ILLEGAL!
Keith OLBERMANN & the others will go nuts about this. Twitter is an addiction & they won’t be able to cope without spreading their lies.
None of these people are “journalists”, they are Presstitutes incapable of telling the Truth, The whole truth and nothing but the Truth.
Personally I think most if not all of their actions should be Criminal Fraud and they should rot in prison for a very very long time.
Not Journalists propaganda agents system purged.
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