Hacker called Doomed delights as First Amendment debate stokes chaos on Twitter.
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Twitter suspended journalist for reporting on Matt Walsh’s hacked materials
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Matt Walsh is a shitty human being, so of course I find all this funny and I'm rooting against him. But even if this reporter wasn't with Wired I'm always going to be on the side of journalists being able to cover stories like this. Public figure getting hacked is a news story. Confirming that the hack really happened and discussing the details without revealing things that could put someone in danger etc is reasonable.
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Based on the descriptions of what constitutes bannable behavior on Twitter, this sounds like it was an executive decision (and we know who made it) because the nuances of policy could have gone either way, and Musk got angry, again, over one of his Reich-wing buddies being outed and humiliated on Twitter.
Love how Musk is all about "free speech" as long as it's some fucking fascist doing the speaking...
Love how Musk is all about "free speech" as long as it's some fucking fascist doing the speaking...
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So celebrities getting their accounts hacked and they start claiming they're going to give out iPads? For days? Good luck getting Twitter to help you!
A virulent transphobe gets hacked? Twitter's on it ASAP!
Musk's priorities (which we knew were all garbage, but...)
A virulent transphobe gets hacked? Twitter's on it ASAP!
Musk's priorities (which we knew were all garbage, but...)
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Here I am playing the world’s smallest violin for America’s most popular theocratic fascist. Too bad Doomed was just doing it for fun and not actively trying to ruin Walsh’s life. We need a better class of hacker troll in this country.
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Walsh is a hateful jackwagon. Walsh getting pwnt and the Inheritor of the Emerald Mine getting bent out of shape over it are both very funny.
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If Walsh was the alpha male he purports to be, he'd already have the "hacker" hog tied and under his foot now.
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(Emphasis mine)
I get why this rule is in place. Distribution of hacked materials could effective doxx someone's location, employment (if not public) and overall cause issues. Yet Twitter is allowing transphobic comments to be posted on their site which could effectively lead to the target being harmed.
I suspect that since Walsh is on the "conservative" side of things and this hack showed the fragility of Twitter's infrastructure that Musk ordered this journalist's account banned. The ban being issued to "prove a point that we will not allow statements in poor taste" negates Musk's free speech argument but we all know that was a lie anyway.
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And yet, we wouldn't cover "Crummy wannabe provocateur gets account hacked" as a story by itself. As always the attempt to cover things up is the bigger story.
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That's the nicest thing I've ever seen someone say about Matt Walsh.
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Protected speech: being mean to certain groups
Not protected speech: the very reason the first amendment was written.
Right wingers hate the constitution.
Not protected speech: the very reason the first amendment was written.
Right wingers hate the constitution.
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scandal <> Twitter (and the US media) fact-checking a dubious story broken by a Murdoch-owned tabloid during "October surprise" month in a presidential election year. The only scandal is in the minds of right-wing nutjobs who are still trying to turn Hunter Biden's laptop into Joe Biden's Benghazi.
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Yet another case of free speech absolutism, as in — your speech is absolutely only as free as the platform owner decrees.
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I'm not surprised Matt Walsh and Daily Wire get special treatment and attention at Twitter.
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Elon: Freeze Peach must be absolute! Which is why are allowing targeted harassment of trans people on our platform.
Also Elon: Information wants to be free! which is why we are endlessly hyping up the Twitter Files Biden laptop bullshit.
Also Also Elon: I will personally ban anyone who leaks my bestie Matt Walsh's dirty secrets!
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I think it always says quite a bit about the right wing crowd on these articles. Outside of rants/insults all they do is silently downvote because deep down inside they know their beliefs and arguments are wrong and will fail.
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I'm more concerned with the chilling effects on free speech when Entitled Rich White Guy threatens you with a lawsuit from very expensive lawyers, way better than you can afford, than I am about some counterfactual hypothesizing about Dick Move Elon Did This Week #7. Elon being an moron, I would argue, is barely newsworthy any more, and should just be expected.
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I don't know who any of the people in this story are, but I found this bit interesting. Did someone clone this guy's cell phone? How did all MFA get bypassed?
I would RTFA, but the Wired article is paywalled.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if musk personally ordered lackeys to do the suspension. After all conservative leader Poilievre got musk to label CBC recently.
Honestly, never thought I would use this image so soon again, the second time, on the same day only few hours apart. I guess this got old really fast with such frequent usage.
(Thanks Aurich and CraigJ for this terrible gift to the world lol)
Edit: I removed the pic… it got old fast and i think we are probably tired of it.
Honestly, never thought I would use this image so soon again, the second time, on the same day only few hours apart. I guess this got old really fast with such frequent usage.
(Thanks Aurich and CraigJ for this terrible gift to the world lol)
Edit: I removed the pic… it got old fast and i think we are probably tired of it.
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Fascist man-child running Twitter doesn't like a Christian Nationalist being outed as fascist. Bans reporter reporting on said fascism to create largest Streisand Effect in recent memory.
I'm tired. Can we reset America to default settings now?
I'm tired. Can we reset America to default settings now?
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Who knew conservatives are such fragile snowflakes? To hear them talk, they’re all many men who take no crap from the libs.
Yet apparently they get their feelings hurt rather easily. They really are fragile and delicate.
Yet apparently they get their feelings hurt rather easily. They really are fragile and delicate.
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You understand this makes Musk look bad, right?Loving the sudden flood of Elon Musk / Twitter articles! Keep'em coming!
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mush murdering a child and calling satan wouldn't change his cults view of him.
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Well... the department at a "Big Ten" conference university I work for deleted their Twitter account today. 10+ years of tweets went poof. Other departments are starting to follow suit.
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Just withdraw from Twitter.
It's a trash platform now with less value by the day.
It's a trash platform now with less value by the day.
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What part of social media is poison is not getting through to anyone.
I am honestly stunned that any thinking human uses social media for anything other than sharing pictures of their kids with their direct family.
This is not complicated: stop using these services. They are poison.
I am honestly stunned that any thinking human uses social media for anything other than sharing pictures of their kids with their direct family.
This is not complicated: stop using these services. They are poison.
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I totally agree with Elon Musk's position here; journalists shouldn't be able to report that figures on the far right have been hacked. No, I choose to believe Matt Walsh really did say all those things his account posted during that time period. Who are you, or anyone else to tell me that I need to know anything deeper? This can only ever work out wonderfully, thanks to the wise Mr Musk. And those postings were no more insane than the rest of Walsh's theocratic-fascist postings anyway. Totally believable it was him all along, he'd never make a mistake or be victim of anyone else's actions...
It is thus factually true that Matt Walsh is a "Sassy Shoota", and that he thinks Joe Rogan is a paedophile.
It is thus factually true that Matt Walsh is a "Sassy Shoota", and that he thinks Joe Rogan is a paedophile.
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Musk's Twitter doing exactly the same thing they accused the previous Twitter owners of doing?
Man, it's almost as if his "unfettered free speech, public square, anything not illegal is allowed, no more censorship" jibba-jabba was just a lie that only stupid people (possibly including himself) believed.
It turns out, Musk really just loves banning journalists and picking fights with "liberal" news organizations at the behest of right-wing trolls who play him like a fiddle.
Man, it's almost as if his "unfettered free speech, public square, anything not illegal is allowed, no more censorship" jibba-jabba was just a lie that only stupid people (possibly including himself) believed.
It turns out, Musk really just loves banning journalists and picking fights with "liberal" news organizations at the behest of right-wing trolls who play him like a fiddle.
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I hope that The Daily Wire and Wet Malsh spend a ton of money on lawsuits and get absolutely nothing, and better yet end up paying the legal fees for the defendants.
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Frankly I hope they're all talk. Nobody needs to be subjected to an expensive and time-consuming frivolous lawsuit in the American system.
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And Musk is the guy who hired a private detective to try to prove someone was a pedophile (they weren't).
And he's banning a reporter for reporting on a hack (of one of his buddies)? I guess hypocrisy IS on brand for Elon.
What a turd.
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Is this really about Matt Walsh being hacked, or are Twitter truly annoyed by reporting of a Twitter account being hacked? Neither should put someone out of the Twattersphere, but I can see His Muskiness getting cranky over either one of those. And maybe anything that makes Twizzle look a little insecure might annoy him more.
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So Matt Walsh paid for Twitter Blue, affording him the "protection" of 2 factor auth (SMS) only for twitter subscribers, then he gets hacked because of it. Nice.
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