UK Column News - Friday, 2nd December 2022 43:57 - Free speech online: Incompetents flushed out; The government will dox you now

 

UK Column News - Friday, 2nd December 2022 43:57 - Free speech online: Incompetents flushed out; The government will dox you now

43:57 Washington Examiner: Musk says Twitter 'interfered in elections' and 'failed' public trust

Patrick Henningsen reminder: Twitter even shut down the account of the New York Post, the fourth-largest newspaper in the USA, as if its editors hadn't vetted the Hunter Biden laptop story

Three telling tweets by Elon Musk:

The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed.

The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened.

This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.

47:09 Reuters cites Twitter’s former head of censorship, Yoel Roth the partisan, as casting Musk’s Twitter as a cauldron of hate speech

48:07 Clip: Roth’s blasé attitude, feigning a sense of danger and pretending expertise in the political phenomenon of hack-and-leak

50:41 Washington Post: Musk’s ‘free speech’ agenda dismantles safety work at Twitter, insiders say

Times of Israel: Israel’s Foreign Ministry jabs Twitter for new lax attitude toward hate speech

NBC News takes the hype to another order of magnitude: Elon Musk’s Twitter risks opening floodgates of hate speech and extremism in India

AP (syndicated by the Independent): German police raid and question online hate speech suspects—Germany’s annual purge of anonymous persons online

New York Times: Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door (September 2022)—misattributing a quote gets a man's door battered down

Patrick Henningsen commentary: If the Germans are crowing about government doxxing for upsetting politicians, are the Five Eyes doing it to their own citizens in a less declared fashion?

German law enforcement’s doctrine:

The accused bears the risk of spreading a false quote without checking it

—predicated upon the nonsense that a falsely-attributed quotation is a threat to a politician’s very safety

Patrick Henningsen analysis: Governments are hereby showing social media platforms that they will intervene directly if the platforms are not up to the censorship task set for them