STOP THE PRESSES! Twitter Did Things Bari Weiss Doesn’t Like!

https://t.co/ey9EJyvVFt pic.twitter.com/mLaV3nyHok

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) December 9, 2022

No, not that (though yeah, good response). This:

Some of the people spotted at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco lately include people from Musk's orbit of companies like Tesla and The Boring Company, his cousins, and even the commentator Bari Weiss, who is expected to help Musk release his so-called Twitter files.

No idea who Bari Weiss is (and no, don’t tell me 🙉). But she has replaced Taibbi, who was apparently not ideological enough. Or wasn’t this time around.

Tl;dr. Don’t care. Twitter is a private company, they could control their platform the way they choose, just like Elmo does.  Except when Elmo does it, it’s okay 👌:

Everything about this is so, so stupid. Their Ahab-like obsession with social media moderation. The way "journalists" are openly creating agitprop for the richest man on earth. Paying 44 billion to expose the conspiracy and understanding nothing about the company you bought.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) December 9, 2022

Same story it’s ever been.

So if you did read, you found bombshells like this:

I mean, what's below is objectively what Libsoftiktok was (and is) doing, and it's what we all knew she was being suspended for. You can disagree with Twitter's decision, but that, again, is only about where to draw the line. pic.twitter.com/EZkYAt69Hl

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) December 9, 2022

The “bombshell” being current management doesn’t like the way former management ran the place. Except, as I say, new management is going to do what old management did. See? Better! Why won’t the MSM report this?

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What? Bari Weiss misrepresenting stuff to fanboys to make a big conspiracy out of something that is clearly not a big conspiracy?

How... not surprising. https://t.co/Xt0R9miIsD

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) December 9, 2022

Well, I guess that’s why. Or maybe the secret wasn’t a secret:

Twitter first announced—yes, announced! publicly! they even held briefings for me and other reporters on it!—the set of moderation practices that critics would later dub “shadowbanning” in May 2018. I called it “Twitter purgatory.” https://t.co/bsLcITd3m7

— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) December 9, 2022

Then it reaches its inevitable nadir:

So how soon is she out because Elon’s firing squad targeted her? pic.twitter.com/0VAvOpK7mI

— RSchooley@socel.net (@Rschooley) December 9, 2022

Children playing in an electronic sandbox:

The best and the brightest pic.twitter.com/cfbEyHPzhr

— Popehat (@Popehat) December 9, 2022

Sending a bunch of private DMs about how we should abuse power to suppress conservative thought because we can’t counter it with IDEAS just so Bari Weiss will feel good about herself today

— Popehat (@Popehat) December 9, 2022