{"id":84013,"date":"2022-12-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84013"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:31:53","slug":"im-old-enough-to-remember-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84013","title":{"rendered":"I’m Old Enough To Remember…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…when the center-right Christian satire site [1] Babylon Bee<\/em> got banned from Twitter for “misinformation” – for writing satire<\/em> – and not a single media outlet lamented the erosion of freedom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To say nothing of gundecking, at government request, stories from Mark Dayton’s health up through Hunter Biden’s kickbacks to “Big Guy”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m old enough to remember when big leftymedia was incredibly <\/em>blas\u00e9 about public-private partnerships leading to de facto <\/em>censorship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you’d have to be very young indeed to remember the day Big Leftymedia started squawking about being victimized. It’s a brand new thing<\/a>. Emphasis added by me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to a report in The Intercept<\/a>, Musk has suspended several notable left-wing accounts over the past week or so. A number of them were anti-fascist researchers and organizers<\/strong> who focused on documenting far-right activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, the disabled accounts documented in the report <\/strong>were singled out for criticism by the far-right writer Andy Ngo, who Musk often publicly interacts with on Twitter. “Musk invited<\/a> Ngo to report ‘<\/strong>Antifa accounts’ that should be suspended directly to him,” the Intercept reported. In at least once case, Ngo seems to have succeeded at directing Musk to suspend an account that Ngo failed to get suspended by Twitter before Musk took over the company.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Just you watch. “Censorship” – of the left, natch – will become a topic, starting right about…now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy desperately needs a free, inquisitive <\/em>press that holds all <\/em>government’s feet in the fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we objectively do not have that today<\/a>. And people know it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1] Also perhaps the most legitimate news source in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…when the center-right Christian satire site [1] Babylon Bee got banned from Twitter for “misinformation” – for writing satire – and not a single media outlet lamented the erosion of freedom. To say nothing of gundecking, at government request, stories from Mark Dayton’s health up through Hunter Biden’s kickbacks to “Big Guy”. I’m old enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84016,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84013\/revisions\/84016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}