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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stomrer
February 24, 2016
Fight the shutdown!
Adam Baldwin is not an especially important actor (although Firefly was the best sci-fi show ever to be canceled in one season) – a more important life accomplishment than any of his acting was coining the term “#gamergate” on Twitter. After coining the term, he was then involved in the movement.
#Gamergate was no #ArabSpring or #BlackLivesMatter, but it was one of the top ten (or so) major twitter-related movements that demonstrated the cultural relevance of microblogging site. So it is certainly a sign of the way things are going that Adam Baldwin has deleted all his tweets on Monday and announced he was permanently leaving the site due to their increasing clampdown on freedom of speech.
Baldwin, who currently stars in the TNT hit show “The Last Ship,” tells Independent Journal Review that Twitter’s new policy of punishing users for speech is “offensive” and the reason for his departure from the social platform. “I’ve had enough. Twitter is dead to me,” Baldwin tells us, “I’m going to find greener pastures elsewhere and I’m not coming back.”
Baldwin explains:
“It’s really a shame that so-called ‘liberal thinkers’ and the so called ‘tolerant crowd’ is intolerant of varying viewpoints. They’re so afraid to hear people disagree with them. Instead of ignoring it or providing their own arguments in return, they say ‘shut up!’”
Baldwin, who has nearly a quarter of a million followers, deleted his entire Twitter history Monday morning.
He did leave one tweet, calling for the resignation of Twitter’s CEO.
Hi @Twitter: Fire @jack and disband the 'Trust and Safety' Council.
Here's why:https://t.co/TwHxVGr429
— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) February 22, 2016
Note that he also replaced his avatar with an image of Stacy McCain, who was banned last week for unclear reasons.
“This group-think, Orwellian, so-called Safety Council is really killing the wild west of ideas that Twitter was,” Baldwin laments.
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“That’s what made Twitter fun. You could run across all sorts of differing viewpoints. That is what free speech is all about. As long as you’re not threatening people with violence, have at it.”
Baldwin cites the banning of prominent conservative tweeter Robert Stacy McCain as a major reason for leaving and points to a recent article by The Federalist for an explanation of the situation.
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Only a few weeks earlier, Twitter had announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council,” to which it appointed Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist known for denouncing “sexism” in video games, a prominent figure in the Gamergate controversy—and oh yes, a frequent target of criticism from McCain. So it sure looks like the moment Twitter gave Sarkeesian the power to do so, she started blackballing her critics.
Baldwin tells us Sarkeesian’s role in the new Safety Council directly affected his decision.
“Joss Whedon got off Twitter and that really shocked me,” Baldwin says, referencing the “Avengers” director quitting the platform last year. “Sarkeesian had a big hand in Joss leaving.”
If Sarkeesian is on a rampage banning her critics, I wonder how long it will be before our friend Sargon of Akkad gets the ax? (I tried to warn him. But he just wouldn’t listen.)
Internet Court: Judge Sarkeesian actually had Mario sent to internet prison for slapping Peach’s ass. Peach giggled at the time, then showed up at the internet trial and said she liked a bit of manhandling “because it makes her feel like a lady,” but Judge Sarkeesian wasn’t having it.
Baldwin quitting is a big deal, and is getting surprisingly little media coverage.
What did get a lot of media coverage last week was Twitter executives buying their own failing stock.
Probably not a great sign that they’re resorting to these types of gimmicks.
In an SEC filing posted today, Twitter executive chairman Omid Kordestani disclosed he purchased 122,250 shares of Twitter at $16.34 each, increasing his stake to 522,250 shares. In another filing, Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto bought 15,500 shares at $16.08 a piece, increasing his holdings to 1,258,828 shares.
Both executives are buying shares at a bargain. Twitter stock is down 24% year to date in late morning trading Thursday, also touching an all-time low last week.
Kordestani, who joined Twitter last fall, and Noto, are buying in during a rough patch for the social media platform. In its most recent earnings report, Twitter reported it lost users between the third and fourth quarters of 2015.
If I running a company doing as poorly as Twitter is, I would have probably chilled out on the Council of Doom. You know, at least waited until 3rd quarter to introduce it. Certainly, less freedoms and feminist witchhunts are not going to make the site more popular.
That said, these witchhuts will only initially affect a very small percentage of the userbase. However, investors are looking at this and being like “what the hell? who responds to a drop in their userbase by threatening and purging users? On a platform that was made popular by its adherence to policies of free speech being part of its image?”
When Twitter collapses, it’s going to be a major economic and social victory for freedom of speech and shitlording.
