Kings Amongst Mice

INTRODUCING YOEL ROTH, CROWN PRINCE OF BIG TECH CENSORSHIP

There have been concerted efforts by various activist groups including “trust and safety councils” for online digital platforms to ban usage of the term “groomer” as hate speech. Some activist groups have even gone as far as to proclaim that this is an anti-LGBTQ slur predominantly used by “alt-right” individuals. In fact, Twitter’s trust and safety council went as far as banning the twitter account “gays against groomers” because they were deemed to be a hate group. It is rather peculiar though that the people who advocate the loudest for these cancellation policies are often found in rather compromising situations. Internet sleuths recently stumbled upon ex-head of Twitter’s Trust & Safety council, Yoel Roth’s University of Pennsylvania dissertation which argues that rather than try to drive out teenagers “service providers should instead focus on crafting safety strategies that can accommodate a wide variety of use cases for platforms like Grindr — including, possibly, their role in safely connecting queer young adults.” A paper that had been briefly taken down from the university’s online library. While much has been made about a 2010 twitter post by Roth on whether high school students could “meaningfully consent to sexual relations with their professors,” his tweet links to an article by Salon about a legal case at the time. In a guest article published in the New York Times, Roth argues that Musk’s free speech crusade can be brought to heel by the power of the purse if and when companies pull advertising revenue. Dark money has been involved in running pressure campaigns on companies to pull advertising off Twitter. This coy play by Roth, neatly typed up in a Times opinion piece, seems to be naught more than a manual for a coordinated war against Musk. With the latest batch of #twitterfiles more of the veil has been pulled back and the world is now privy to the disturbing comfort with which twitter executives had with child pornography on the platform. It would seem that for a time, twitter was naught more than a concierge for grooming services. A place where perverted adults with pernicious pet peeves came to seek out their prey: Innocent children. In 2017, after Trump’s ascendance to the White House, Roth proclaimed that there were actual Nazi’s in the white house. This maladjusted individual hasn’t just been a mere celebrity amongst some in America’s corporate media, he is revered by many prominent individuals. A king amongst mice and for brief moments between 2020 and 2021, more powerful than the world’s most powerful man. The fealty which corporate journalists show to those who espouse and elevate liberal doctrines in the public square is almost unparalleled. The ferocity which many will defend their own almost admirable were it not macabre. Recent high profile resignations at twitter showcase the wilful ignorance of many in corporate journalism to the incestuous relationship between America’s intelligence agencies and their censorship partners at Twitter. While done in a puff, maximising dramatic effect to only be punctured by the pin prick of reality, these resignations highlight the growing discomfort some are having with Twitter’s new regime of transparency, however mild.

It would seem that for a time, twitter was naught more than a concierge for grooming services. A place where perverted adults with pernicious pet peeves came to seek out their prey: Innocent children.

Propaganda’s greatest agents aren’t the clandestine government agencies that wield it as a tool for control. Often, it’s the everyday Joes who are coopted into service. Themselves shielded from truth while disseminating vile lies and half truths offered up in sanctimonious sermonettes. Having being chained to ideology, censorship of opinions viewed as anathema became a religious sacrament to some. Speech is hate and hate is violence. Thus self righteous crusades to purge dissenters became the norm on the world’s most powerful communication platform. As the light of transparency illuminates the communication between Twitter executives, once banished and newly reinstated heretics are being proven to have been right all along. Wrongfully sent to the gallows, the #twitterfiles have acquitted many as it does seem that spurious charges had been levelled against them to justify their banishment. As with any propaganda campaign, the greatest harbingers heralding pro-censorship messages are society’s celebrities. Elton John, Mark Ruffalo and other serial woke activists are among a litany of individuals who insist that an even marginally freer twitter is a threat to “democracy.” A dangerous tool wielded by those they deem their adversaries. No word about the many lives that were destroyed under the previous regime. No word about the rampant child exploitation content that had proliferated on the platform. The greatest tragedy may be that we elevated society’s jesters to royalty status and enthroned them as kings. Puny self proclaimed gods and hulking brutes devoid of independence of thought and empathy for others. Useful idiots.

Gender ideology and other insane theories about humanity found a nesting place on twitter because they were elevated to the position of sacred text by former twitter executives. Having hatched to maturity, ludicrous edicts and doctrines were meted out by troubled, perhaps confused individuals. To “misgender” someone through wrong use of chosen pronouns was to participate in hate speech. An offence worthy of suspension as evidenced by the high profile banning of the The Babylon Bee. Repressive rules unfairly enforced on twitter helped normalise this madness. This past week a single silver bullet fired from the Musketeers musket pierced through the cloud of darkness that had enveloped twitter for years. Elon Musk challenged the liberal orthodoxy of being forced to address others by their preferred pronouns. In the same post, he pointed out the alleged criminality of one Anthony Fauci with regard to the covid 19 pandemic. Supposedly, one of the worlds leading infectious disease experts. An expert who in a recent deposition with Missouri AG Eric Schmitt, failed to cite a single scientific source for failed mask policies that help decimate early child learning and development. The cult of covid has not been too pleased. Led by dirty cop John Brennan, their chants of support have been offered up in ever more shrilly tones via attempted Twitter rebuttals, affirming Fauci’s position as the emperor of medical misinformation. A manufactured factory king whose rule was foisted upon denizens on the planet through regular appearances on America’s corporate media broadcasts. Crowned as ruler by the dregs of society, their wishes seemingly bestowed upon him the authority to become the literal embodiment of “science.” As the sun shines on him, this man’s spotless mind is indeed found to have been eternally barren. A wasteland littered with tyrannical whims and some form of amnesia as Fauci seems to at times forget his insistence on failed lockdown policies. Seemingly, not quite the purported genius we were promised by the media but a megalomaniac in training wheels. It does seem that the evolution of Fauci from public servant to medicine Mafia kingpin was part of the devolution of trust the general public has for those in public office.

Perhaps Jack’s dishevelled appearance at the time wasn’t belying eccentricity. It was simply indicative of a king who had been removed from his throne then locked up deep in the bowels of irrelevance to dwell with cave trolls.

Appearing before a congressional committee hearing in 2018, Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter assured congressmen and women that Twitter was not engaged in shadow banning based on ideological dissent. With the latest batch of Twitter files this has now been conclusively proven to have been the case. Perhaps Jack’s dishevelled appearance at the time wasn’t belying eccentricity. It was simply indicative of a king who had been dethroned then locked up deep in the bowels of irrelevance to dwell with cave trolls. No more different from the bot armies that seem to be summoned up from time to time in attempts to shape public opinion. Elon Musk has suggested that Jack didn’t run Twitter, the trust and safety team under Yoel Roth did. Mr. Musk recently pointed out, as others had noted before him that he did not just buy a social media company, he bought a crime scene. Jack Dorsey may have committed perjury. To be fair though, this is least amongst the other crimes that may have been committed at Twitter including routine violation of Americans’ first amendment rights. Many in America’s corporate media seem intent on turning the #twitterfiles into a none issue. The power they wield and ability to shape public perception is still immense. There has been very little coverage of these files on corporate media networks. By choosing to ignore the release of the files corporate media lackeys are running interference for America’s corrupt censorship regime. It remains to be seen whether anything meaningful will come from this or if this will be doomed to become a partisan issue rooted in ideology.

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