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Friday, April 15, 2022

THIS –> Glenn Greenwald’s thread DRAGGING media for showing how desperately they CRAVE censorship for others is straight freakin’ fire

The media only cares about free speech for the MEDIA. Not you, not us, not anyone else. We saw this front and center yesterday when Elon Musk put in an offer to buy Twitter. Our pals in the media lost their freaking MINDS over the idea of the little people they despise having the ability to be heard on the tech giant.

Finally.

Max Boot was especially obnoxious, railing on the idea and then going into victim-mode when people called him out for it. We actually wrote about him THREE TIMES yesterday because he was just that obnoxious. Note, we’ve only written about a handful of people more than twice in one day … and it’s not a good thing when we do it, for the person we’re writing about.

Glenn Greenwald pointed out how gross this behavior was (and then some) in a pretty epic thread.

Take a gander:

Flagship day in corporate media, and not in a good way.

It’s sort of like how people support abortion – they call it ‘choice.’

Yup. It is 100% ideological and an uneven playing field for ideas and content in general. And the Leftist media wants to keep it that way.

What he said.

Even Fauci has admitted the lockdowns are to be used to ‘encourage’ vaccination.

You’re Russia-friendly and a fan of Putin if you question the Ukraine narrative at all.

Yup.

Any dissident can be banned.

Think about how damn scary that is for just a moment.

And that’s why Elon wants to buy Twitter.

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Musk's Offer for Twitter Leaves Liberals Reeling, Washington Post Writer Sees Censorship as Essential to Democracy

Late Sunday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the stunning news that billionaire Elon Musk had decided not to join the company’s board of directors.

It took about a nanosecond for sheer panic to set in among the liberal elites.

They were acutely aware that the free-speech absolutist was likely setting himself up to make an even bigger move, one that might rob them of their greatest advantage: the ability to control the news Americans are allowed to hear.

According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Musk has offered to acquire Twitter for $54.20 a share in cash, or more than $41 billion.

Washington Post columnist Max Boot didn’t even try to hide his consternation over this development.

He declared in a tweet that he was “frightened by the impact on society and politics” if the deal were to go through.

“For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less,” Boot said.

He actually came out and said that in order for democracy to survive, we need censorship. Hmmm.

Poor Max is so distraught he’s forgotten that the Big Tech censorship that has increasingly given Democrats the upper hand in American politics is not the hallmark of a free society but of an authoritarian government.

The creeping control of public debate has turned into something much more blatant and powerful over the past five years or so. The masters of the universe are no longer worried about the optics of limiting free speech; they feel entitled to be the arbiters of what information Americans can or cannot read. They know better than the rest of us rubes anyway.

But now that entitlement has been threatened in the form of a $41 billion offer from Elon Musk.

After many ridiculed and questioned Boot’s tweet, he doubled down by dedicating his Post column on Thursday to what he called his “encounter this morning with the pro-Musk/pro-Trump Twitter mob.”

“Thank you for making my point, trolls,” he wrote. “There is way too much nonsense online — too much name-calling, too much dishonesty, too many conspiracy theories. And there is a disturbing tendency for...

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Warnock Asks Court To Seal Child Custody Proceedings, Citing Reelection Bid

Democratic senator Raphael Warnock asked a Georgia judge on Tuesday to seal his contentious child custody dispute from the public, arguing that because he is "currently running for reelection" his opponent could use the case to "gain some political advantage," according to a court motion obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Warnock made the request in a joint motion with his ex-wife, Oulèye Ndoye, following renewed media attention on their divorce. Warnock and Ndoye said in the filing that there is an "overriding interest that is likely to prejudice the parties and their minor children if hearings relating to modification of custody is not closed." The motion says Warnock is a "public figure serving in a political office" and "is currently running for reelection for said political office."

"[Warnock's] opposition is utilizing the public records in order to gain some political advantage or gain," said the filing, adding that their children could be "harmed by any unstable person who sympathizes" with his opponent.

If the judge agrees to seal the records, it could allow Warnock to avoid a messy public domestic battle while he is facing one of the most competitive races of the midterm elections.

Ndoye reopened the dispute in a February court filing, accusing Warnock of neglect of his children and failure to pay for childcare, leaving her "financially strapped." Ndoye claimed Warnock refused to pay for childcare costs that she was forced to shoulder when he failed to show up for his custody days. She also said he "routinely neglects" to give her notice when he is traveling out of town during his visitation days, and instead has the children "picked up from school by friends and [leaves] them with various babysitters overnight" while he is away.

In 2020, Ndoye accused Warnock of intentionally running over her foot with his Tesla during a fight. The couple married in 2016 and divorced in 2020.

Fulton County Superior Court judge Shermela J. Williams ordered the couple to attend mediation and try to reach an out-of-court agreement by May 7. She scheduled a...