Elon Musk is now the enemy of Democrats and the media and they are attacking him left and right as he exposes the Left within Twitter for their blatant censorship misdeeds.
Today the Washington Post actually accused Elon Musk of employing QANON tactics to put his former Trust and Safety Chief’s life in danger.
Joseph Menn, who writes for WAPO, tweeted out his article accusing Musk of putting Yoel Roth’s life in danger by commenting on some controversial tweets by Roth.
Over the weekend, Elon Musk alarmed safety experts by using tactics honed by QAnon, and attracting some of its followers, to suggest that former Twitter managers had ulterior motives for not rooting out child sex abuse images on the platform. My story: https://t.co/bY2cj4QZ7V
— Joseph Menn (@josephmenn) December 12, 2022
Elon Musk escalated his battle of words with previous managers of Twitter into risky new territory over the weekend, allying himself with far-right crusaders against a purported epidemic of child sex abuse and implying that the company’s former head of trust and safety had a permissive view of sexual activity by minors.
Musk told more than 30,000 listeners in a live Twitter Spaces audio session Friday night that he recently discovered that child sex abuse material was a severe problem on Twitter and that fighting it would be his top priority.
In follow-up tweets Saturday, he misrepresented a section of a graduate thesis from recently departed safety chief Yoel Roth. “Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis,” he wrote.
The attached snippet instead showed Roth suggesting that since teenagers were accessing apps and websites that they were not supposed to use, as they always have, those services should consider offering toned-down content alongside adult fare.
Musk also commented on an old tweet in which Roth wrote, “Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?” Roth did not answer his own question, merely linking to an article about a Washington state supreme court ruling that found a teacher could be convicted of a crime for having sex with a student who was over the age of 18. The age of consent in Washington is 16, but a majority of the court ruled that Washington state lawmakers intended to criminalize teacher-student sexual contact for all students, even those over 18. Twenty-one is the age limit for high school in the state.
“This explains a lot,” Musk wrote to his more than 100 million followers. Roth’s two-year-old tweet about students then drew new replies calling for him to be jailed.
Several internet safety experts said that Musk’s comments put Roth at grave risk. Roth, who is openly gay, worked past Musk’s October takeover. He then resigned and said Musk’s hands-off approach to moderation was increasing danger to users.
“He’s putting Yoel’s life in danger and he knows it,” tweeted Alejandra Caraballo, an instructor at Harvard Law School. Roth did not respond to a request for comment.
This is exactly what the left says about Libs of Tiktok. She doesn’t incite violence towards anyone with her tweets exposing some on the left as groomers. And neither is Musk. He’s just commenting on stories and tweets from Roth in the wake of Roth’s totalitarian impulse to censor people on the right like Libs of Tiktok.
But of course they can’t just accuse Musk without maligning him of essentially being QANON by employing their tactics.
This is the Left’s way of trying to silence people they disagree with when they lose the control to do it outright. They write articles smearing them, accusing them of horrific things in an attempt to try and make them self-silence. But these tactics aren’t going to work on Musk. He’s not a wallflower. He just bought one of the biggest social media platforms out there and he’s not going to stop.