Twitter labels NPR as "State-Affiliated Media" (NPR CEO is big mad)

[acptulsa]

I guess I was not clear. I was asking those questions to [MENTION=65299]Swordsmyth[/MENTION].

I was asking that question of him, too. You weren't the only one quoted.

Why? Do you know who he was referring to with that cryptic dog-whistle test? I'm just glad it wasn't me...

 

[Swordsmyth]

Why should one not conclude that "AC" is "of the enemy" and is opportunistically trying to spread divisive FUD?

Maybe all of the evidence that we have that Musk is of the enemy and has not really improved anything.
Elon still wants to make Twitter an "everything ap" like China has so when you get deplatformed from it you are unpersoned, he needs to sucker people back on in order to make it work.

And this was a comment at the blog, not AC himself.

 

[Swordsmyth]

AC is Anonymous Conservative and he has an excellent blog.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Why should one not conclude that "AC" is "of the enemy" and is opportunistically trying to spread divisive FUD?

Maybe all of the evidence that we have that Musk is of the enemy and has not really improved anything.

That doesn't tell me "why [I should] not conclude that [this commenter at] 'AC' is 'of the enemy' and is opportunistically trying to spread divisive FUD".

That's not surprising, though, since "controlled opposition" narratives are always unfalsifiable. [1]

Elon still wants to make Twitter an "everything ap" like China has so when you get deplatformed from it you are unpersoned, he needs to sucker people back on in order to make it work.

That's not going to happen.

There is no such thing as an "everything app" and there never will be [2] - despite the utopian fantasies of Musk and the other tech enthusiasts who came before him (or the dystopian fantasies of their critics). The omnipotent boogey-man du jour (IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc.) is a tale as old as tech.

And in any case, the vast majority of people do not have Twitter accounts, and thus cannot be "sucker[ed ...] back on" (just so they can then be "deplatformed").

However much I might dislike some of his policies or ambitions, Elon Musk is not the nemesis of liberty - the US government is. Compared to them, Musk doesn't even begin to rate. (And if he ever does, I have little doubt it will be as a result of collusion with the government, so it would come to the same thing anyway.)



[1] If I cared to go to the trouble to do so (and I certainly do not), I am sure I could concoct some more or less elaborate scheme under which Elon Musk, or the AC commenter you quoted, or the Dr. Shiva you cited in the other thread, or Donald Trump- or even Ron Paul - is "controlled opposition" operating on behalf of some nefarious cause or purpose, and no one could ever prove me wrong.

[2] There are only "yesterday's app", "today's app", and "tomorrow's app" - and they are never the same thing (let alone the only thing). [See, e.g.: AOL, Internet Explorer, Alta Vista, Myspace, Yahoo!, Napster, etc., etc., etc.]

 

[TheTexan]

AC is Anonymous Conservative and he has an excellent blog.

If he's got nothing to hide why is he anonymous

 

[Occam's Banana]

BBC Interview with Elon Musk:

https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1645992677727666176

A sampling:

https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1646006232484913153

 

[acptulsa]

AC is Anonymous Conservative and he has an excellent blog.

Why is it that the only thing more important to all the major party cheerleaders than sloganeering is referring to people you never heard of and don't care about by their nicknames as if they knew them since Elementary School?

Lord, even Matt Collins has sense enough to refer to people we have heard of and do care about by their nicknames as if the lot of them were all in the same Elementary School.

 

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https://twitter.com/PBS

 

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https://twitter.com/PBS

No one is unbiased - and trustworthy people don't go around insisting on their own trustworthiness.

 

[acptulsa]

https://twitter.com/alx/status/1645591609541550085

 

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[Occam's Banana]

Still their near-to-last tweet:

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NPR, a taxpayer-funded news organization, used to be trusted but now, they’ve gone rogue. One senior editor, a classic liberal, says NPR corrupted itself in 2016. He admits NPR coped with Hillary’s loss by getting into bed with Adam Schiff. He says NPR pretended like the Trump-Russia collusion story never happened once it was debunked, he says they tried to kill the lab leak theory and ignored Hunter’s laptop bombshell. This was all fueled by former NPR CEO, John Lansing, who thought white people had to atone for their skin color.

"This was all fueled by former NPR CEO, John Lansing [...]"

In a statement to Variety, NPR president and CEO John Lansing said, “We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as ‘state-affiliated media,’ [...] NPR and our member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide. NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.”

"'Our democracy' is always code for 'our hegemony'." -- Michael Malice

 

[Occam's Banana]

NPR, a taxpayer-funded news organization, used to be trusted but now, they’ve gone rogue. One senior editor, a classic liberal, says NPR corrupted itself in 2016. He admits NPR coped with Hillary’s loss by getting into bed with Adam Schiff. He says NPR pretended like the Trump-Russia collusion story never happened once it was debunked, he says they tried to kill the lab leak theory and ignored Hunter’s laptop bombshell. This was all fueled by former NPR CEO, John Lansing, who thought white people had to atone for their skin color.

THREAD: NPR editor speaks out: How National Public Radio lost America's trust

 

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