Have you been on X lately? It has changed, some would say it is for the better, some would say for the worse. Where you fall on the political spectrum determines how you feel about it.
My personal experiences with Twitter were mixed for a time, I was able to tweet out my personal opinions and articles with no interference, although a lot of hate, but that never bothered me. Then a change started happening, I noticed it when I started getting suspended over and over. I never could get the admin to explain why or how I violated this or that rule, but soon a pattern emerged.
I noticed that, if I responded to an insult or some vulgar remark from the uncouth left, I almost always received either a 24-48 or 72 hour suspension, yet the original offender never did. It did not take me long to figure out that this was the objective of the offender, they wanted you to respond so they could complain to Twitter and invariably caused my suspension. Every appeal failed even when I took a screenshot of the original tweet, it did not matter that it clearly did not violate their “Community Standards”, I just served my time.
It all finally came to a head one evening when a tweet came across my thread from a guy who said he got his daughters the Plan B pills and condoms and made sure to get enough for his daughters friends when they come over, to insure they have “reproductive freedom”. It struck me odd, I reflexively re-tweeted it with a caption “Worst Father of the year award”.
What followed was a two day, back in forth event from him, and his 40k followers. I soon discovered he was a Democrat candidate for the US House of Representatives from Alaska. I attempted to moderate my tweets and even apologized for the original tweet, trying to actually have a conversation with him. What it was pretty much an attempted mugging, on his home page, he was calling out his followers to harass me, amd report me for harassment (ironic).
It came to a head a couple of days later when, he stated he was off of twitter the following night to play a game with his 12 and 10 year old daughters. Well, needless to say, I body slammed him for that revelation, I mean buying Plan B and condoms for his 12 & 10 year old girls and buying enough to supply his pre-teen girls friends, seemed a little incestous and pedophilish to me. I admit I did ask him, was he just virtue signaling or did his daughters friends parents know he was providing these items to their girls and what was next was he going to buy them sex toys too?
Yep that did it, permanently banned by Twitter and my account with it’s 32k followers gone.
Now comes Elon, and while a bit of drama had to happen, he buys Twitter and promptly stated it was going to be a Free Speech Platform. I had tried several times to reconstitute my account and finally succeeded by changing it with a new email and phone numbers.. and a VPN that hid the IP address and was finally able to start over and begun to cautiously tread the ground of Twitter once again, soon to be X. What I first experienced, was exactly what the old Twitter was, a left leaning, Right suspension machine. I was not impressed. Then Elon promised to change the algorithms and through much belly aching, then firings took place X began to change.
It’s first real change that I noticed, was when the left loonies kept on trying to have people booted by calling their antagonist everything but a child of God, and then reporting them if they responded. When those tweeters did not get auto suspended, I was encouraged, then I saw the worst of the worst leftist, a paid Democrat operative, that started threatening the life of former President Trump and everyone that supported him, get banned and I knew there was a new Sheriff in town, suddenly more and more Right leaning voices were being heard (metaphorically speaking) and the left, which had Twitter all to themselves, started screaming and thus the cancel culture had a new target, Elon himself.
The thing about the “Cancel Culture” is, they count on the target to react with apologies, contritness and even reversing themselves 180 degrees to fully endorse whatever they were originally against and targeted for. It, of course, is of no use, they will still boycott you, any advertisers they can target or your employer, if not.
They went, all in, after Elon, some targeting him and his family by tracking his flights, others went after his advertisers on X. The Cancel Nutters can only be effective if they can sufficiently, scare/terrorize their target, if not then they don’t get much.
Oh they might collect a scalp or two, but as Elon famously said “Go Fu*k yourself” to all that would try to blackmail him into submission, when you have FU money and an attitude of you can’t hurt me, you cannot be touched.
Media Matters is going to find this out rather sooner then later, Elon has filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for allegedly manipulating ads and placing them next to post, that they called, “anti-sematic “ thus trying to equate X and Elon promoting Anti-Semitism. Media Matters targeted X’s advertisers with the bogus ad placement and several then pulled their ads from X, prompting the now infamous “Go F Yourself..” .
Elon may not be a saint, he is not a Conservative, but he is on the right side of history on this issue, Free Speech should be defended at all cost and Elon is doing his part.