I have to admit, it’s been a real blast watching the ongoing exodus of so-called journalists and leftists (but I’m repeating myself) from Twitter/X to Bluesky, with the virtue signaling of some of these people already being exhibited at such a level perhaps even higher than what was seen on social media at the height of the pandemic.
As we have documented, at its core, Bluesky has become a sort of “safe space” for anti-Donald Trump/Elon Musk figures on the left and in the media, who have declared, among other things, that the social media platform is now unsustainable to the Twitter/X owner’s support and professional commitment to the President-elect.
One of the reasons they cited for fleeing was that Musk is not as quick to throttle/ban “offensive” content (read: opinions that our supposed intellectual know-it-alls don’t like), which they say has only gotten worse since Trump on March 5th. Won a second term as president in November by defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Just before Thanksgiving, Mississippi Free Press reporter Ashton Pittman wrote a detailed explanation of why he was permanently leaving Twitter/X and staying with Bluesky permanently, after more than a year of saying he would stay with X despite Musk’s ownership.
In it, he revealed that the final straw for him and “millions” of others was the belief that Musk was tipping the scales in favor of the algorithm in a way that encouraged conservative voices and suppressed others:
Twitter morphed into “Cisgender” may result in your account being restricted because Musk (who has described his still very much alive transgender daughter as “dead”) considers it an insult.
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But what really triggered the great exodus was Donald Trump’s victory on November 5th. During the election campaign, Musk not only openly supported Trump’s campaign, but also Researchers have reported that X apparently tweaked its algorithm to boost Trump and other MAGA-affiliated Republicans. As the owner of An aligned billionaire with the ability to control what you see, whether anyone sees what you have to say, and manipulate your emotions.
I have to admit that I could His concerns about the alleged suppression of opposing voices under Musk’s rule would have been more convincing if Pittman and others who share his views had been equally outraged to learn that conservative accounts had been intentionally throttled as a result of collusion with Twitter’s former billionaire owners In some cases, federal authorities have been banned to suppress accounts on topics related to so-called “election misinformation” and questioning the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
It won’t shock anyone reading this to know that Pittman Is in fact a proponent of suppressing content – as long as the content contradicts his woketivist worldview:
No responsible social media platform should ever target stochastic terrorists. https://t.co/Bs5AF0mnIw
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) December 31, 2023
I should also point out that Pittman believes that “fascism” and Hitler-like tendencies are alive and well in America, among Republican lawmakers and also at the judicial level, he writes one more pieceFor example, it says that fascism “is present when courts restrict women’s sexual freedom and bodily autonomy. It is present when society begins to isolate transgender people and deprive them of their freedom to be who they are…”
Got it? You are a “stochastic terrorist” and a “fascist” if you believe that all life, including the unborn, is precious, and believe that women should feel protected in locker rooms and toilets and not have to compete in women’s sports and suffer earnest injuries against those who do this were not born women.
The “tolerant and loving” #COEXIST left strikes again. I wish I could say this all surprised me, but that’s not the case. Same crap, different day, same malevolent actors whose penchant for “tolerance” and “diversity” always stops when the disagreement begins.
Understood.
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