Look Who Just Got Back Today – Them Wild-Eyed Boys Who’d Been Away

Everyone is sort of waiting to pull the trigger on going back on Twitter, because the team was still banning people up until a few hours ago.

But we’ve now got a high profile hero returning with an unmolested account.

We’ve got many others if we search “I’m back.”

Along with making new accounts, people are apparently getting accounts reinstated.

I’m going to wait for the dust to settle.

Alex Jones has not made a move yet. Though he’s surely plotting one.

The Babylon Bee is back, but it’s clear that they just deleted the tweet that was keeping their account locked (Rachel Levine as man of the year). They haven’t started tweeting again yet.

Tucker Carlson did the same thing.

(To be clear: both those two accounts were locked with a demand that they delete tweets saying Rachel Levine is a man – it’s a Soviet thing where you have to publicly renounce your speech to get your account back online. They clearly just went ahead and deleted the tweets and thereby unlocked their accounts on the assumption that they will soon be able to post these statements again in the future.)

Frankly, I was banned in 2015, and I’m not sure I even have the credentials or email account I used to sign up, so I’ll probably be going the new account route.

“Speech That Matches the Law”

This is the latest tweet from Elon:

“Far beyond the law” is slightly concerning.

The one thing I will say is that you could ban threats, even though under the Miller Test, threats are legal as long as they are not specific and imminent. Brandenberg v. Ohio is still the Supreme Court standing ruling, and this was a guy from the KKK who was saying (paraphrasing) “it’s time to start killing niggers” (you can look up the exact speech, I just remember they focused on the word “revengeance”). Ohio tried to say that was illegal and the federal government overruled. I would be okay with banning constitutionally-protected unspecific violent threats.

Also, doxing could be banned. That’s obviously legal, but it’s fair enough. It’s easy to define and can’t really slip out of control into something else like “hate speech.”

Ideally, you would not have any rules at all beyond the First Amendment, but with unspecific threats and doxing, the site could be held legally accountable in civil court pretty easily, so there is a practical reason to ban that.

HOWEVER – accounts should not be banned over this. Maybe suspensions over repeated offenses. But if someone just posts someone’s home address and the person complains about it, the tweet should be deleted and the person should be warned about posting home addresses violating the ToS.

Anyway, Elon is being slightly less opaque in what he is talking about when he says “free speech.” I like that he said “the law,” but I am trying to work out the implications of “far beyond the law.”

I will probably be relatively reserved, personally. Frankly, I don’t really use the word “nigger” very often on the site anymore anyway – that was really a shock comedy bit that got kind of old. I just want to be able to talk about Jews and other things I hate in a frank manner, as well as spread the message of Christ.

Twitter employees are still working. It’s probably a majority of staff that is going to have to be fired. The company has 7,500 employees, which is obviously absurd. Most of them work relating to censorship – which is just insane – but obviously a fair number of them do basic things to keep the site online. Elon will do the shuffle, and people will start to shuffle back on.

It’s really, really happening.

The Biden Administration is threatening Elon.

Obviously, when Donald Trump comes back – and he will come back – there’s going to be a big panic and frenzy and the Democrats are going to be demanding he be stopped somehow.

There are going to be renewed pushes for hate speech laws. That issue had kind of been dropped since the First Amendment had been made irrelevant by the privatization of public speech. But you’ll see that back on the agenda. But the Democrats are so absurdly unpopular at this point, I don’t expect that to get much traction.

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL has been making the rounds and basically begging Elon to ban his enemies.

When Elon doesn’t do that, Greenblatt will switch back to his previous position of demanding hate speech laws. He’s already switched from saying “these are private companies who can do whatever they want to anyone” to saying that it is dangerous to have speech in private hands. Jews will literally just say anything that forwards their agenda – it’s really amazing. Imagine that this Jew expects us to forget the fact that his entire censorship argument was that private companies can do whatever they want – while he is using threats of mass defamation of any company that doesn’t cooperate with him.

That was the pre-Elon model of the ADL: they would threaten to blast through the media that some company “supported Nazism” (because they allowed free speech) and then call up advertisers and business partners and tell them they will be defamed as Nazism supporters if they continue to do business with a Nazism-supporting internet company. It’s just mafia tactics, obviously, but it allowed the ADL to go out and say “private companies are able to do whatever they want to anyone.”

This tactic can’t work on Elon and he’s already said he doesn’t think the site should be funded through advertisement and wants some kind of subscription model.

It Can’t Get Any Worse

Right now, I don’t see why I won’t be allowed back on. But we still don’t have a clear confirmation of that. I think the “speech inside the law” tweet from Elon is good, and is more than we’ve gotten so far as to what he means.

Whatever happens though, it can’t be worse than it is now.

If the government takes drastic actions to shut it down, then that just is what it is.

During the collapse of every empire, you have marginal elites making power plays to seize control via appeals to populism, but at the point they are able to make those plays, the empire is already too far gone to be saved. It’s a catch-22 situation.

I think the American Empire is totally doomed, and cannot possibly continue to exist much longer. But that doesn’t mean we’re all going to die, or that human life will end, or that America as a place and people will end. Being able to speak in this time of death and rebirth is very helpful as we look towards the world that is to come.