CNS NEWS – “The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday, commenting on the liberal outrage over his purchase of Twitter and plans to open it up to free speech.
Immediately after it was announced that Twitter’s board had approved Musk’s buyout bid, liberal media began fear-mongering. As NewsBusters reports, CBS Evening News warned that Musk’s Twitter will be a haven for hate speech that will allow “bad actors” to run rampant. Likewise, NBC warned that Twitter will be unsafe for women and minorities, with MSNBC echoing the accusations.
On Twitter, the reaction by liberals has been vitriolic and, occasionally, vulgar. NewsBusters reports that some of the left-wing celebrities tweeting their outrage over Musk’s purchase of Twitter include:
- Producer Rob Reiner
- Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich
- Washington Post columnist Max Boot
- Media analyst and Baekdal Media Owner Thomas Baekdal
- Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King
In a follow-up post on Tuesday, Musk reassured users that his commitment to “free speech” is limited to only that which is legal:
“By ‘free speech’, I simply mean that which matches the law.
“I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
“If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
“Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.”
Cold libs. The regular guy gets confused who his friends are.
Just as the adage. If you are not a conservative by age thirty, you probably are afraid to come out of your back-set life.
I just deactivated my Twitter account. Musk doesn’t own it yet, but already the conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, anti-vaxxers, nutty extreme leftists, COVID disinformationists, and a whole host of other hatemongers and alternative reality residents have made Twitter a burden to use as it I can’t report and block all of them in a reasonable amount of time.
A lot of folks here probably think that the end of Twitter’s restrictions is good. Goebbels would have too. Musk isn’t an anti-Semite but he is giving them a really nice platform.
Great. Can you now promise us that you’ll leave Matzav.com as well and never comment here?
Will be a lot of unhealthy tweeting undoubtedly and inevitably.. And it will have to be monitored. We already have for that an abundance of organizations
But part of living in free society is growing thicker skin.
One who never had a Twitter account
Charlie,
You have a choice. Freedom of speech or communism (no speech). It’s a tough decision but this country is based on various Freedoms. Was it any better when the ACLU defended and won the nazi’s rights to march through a Jewish neighborhood in Chicaco? We have to learn to live with our freedoms and always know how to respond to the uneducated.