For how long can the cracks be papered over?

Andrea Widburg, American Thinker:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/twitterfiles_no_5_drop_paints_a_damning_picture_of_twitters_maoist_culture.html

Bari Weiss has just published the fifth installment in Elon Musk’s exposé about the rampant corruption in Twitter. This matters because Twitter is no ordinary company. Even more than Facebook or other social media sites, it was the dominant platform for political speech in America—and Twitter employees were Maoists waging a cultural revolution against President Trump and anyone who voted for him.

I’ll load Weiss’s tweets below, but here’s the quick summary:  On January 8, Trump loaded two tweets, one saying that the 75,000,000 Americans who voted for him would be heard and the other saying that he would not attend Biden’s “inauguration” (or, as I always think of it, his “installation”). Those Twitter employees in charge of analyzing tweets concluded that Trump’s tweets had not violated any policy.

The zealots on Twitter’s bloated payroll (most of whom had graduated from America’s hard-left colleges), however, were having none of that. They were adamant that Trump had violated the policy against incitement. As one employee stated in the company’s Slack channel, it was “pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement without violating the rules.” 

In other words, these proud products of America’s academic system firmly believed that they had to violate their own rules in order to prevent Trump from continuing not to violate their rules.

Why this matters for us:

Why are we in blogs “in business” anyway?  This is a different question to why are we blogging? We would be blogging anyway, as all our little blogs do, most likely dealing with this official’s or that’s over-reaching, a bit like Private Eye used to do, the MSM would be doing the lion’s share of the investigative reporting on matters worthy of “high journalism”.

Instead, we find ourselves doing the MSM’s job for them, meaning we are “in business” for no pay, whilst they serve their Marxist masters as we see all about us (posts passim). All institutions are riddled with this cancer, the shell showing cracks which are either papered over or flatly denied via counter-attack. One example of the counter-attack is “community standards”, which takes us straight back to Ms Widburg’s article.

Plus all the rest of it.