Labour’s Yvette Cooper has criticised Elon Musk’s management of X, saying the tech billionaire’s social media company is being used to “continually promote anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hate”.
The shadow home secretary also accused Rishi Sunak of giving a “free pass” to tech executives who are “allowing their platforms to harbour hate”.
People are saying things I disapprove of.
Ban it!
Will someone please explain to me what is the problem with being anti Muslim.
It was on X that I saw the story of the Badreddin family featured in your last post, and how Newsnight and Katie Razzall (daughter of the Lib Dem peer) had produced a sympathetic story around this enricher’s first (probably mistaken) acquittal. Today on the BBC, they are running a front-page story on how victims of Islamic terrorism are pleading with their fellow Brits not to give way to generalised “Islamophobia”.
X is one of our last hopes. If we leave reporting and comment to the BBC and other MSM, we are completely finished.
I am an islamaphobe, ie: Someone who knows a lot more about islam than the the moslems would like.
They really have gone barking mad, but this is not about muslims but about twitter – Musk still allows us to communicate relatively freely and a lot of what we are saying to each other involves understanding the lies they are telling us and the ways in which we can and indeed must overthrow the power.
Chris Bray looks at it from a critique of Rural White Rage:
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/look-for-the-people-who-are-helping?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=484195&post_id=142474407&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1d2nz2&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
It’s always: ” I believe in free speech, but…”.
Thanks for the Chris Bray link.
Ban it
Which is precisely what she, backed up by a labour 200+ seat majority, an eagerly complicit judiciary and civil service, and a gleeful media will pledge to do by mid 2025.
No doubting that but the fun part will be Musk’s response. I hope it will be along broadly similar lines to his recent suggestion to Bob Iger which in turn echoed Pressdram.
Interested.
The Jewish authors of ‘White Rural Rage’, and many other books, are quite happy to demonise white people but are sad now that a tiny amount of the hate they’ve drummed up is being directed at them as ‘fellow white people’…
What Sam Vara said, in spades. Without Twitter/X there would be nothing but censored ‘news’.
The next leader of the Liebour party is doing a great job in London of quashing anti-Muslim hate, Want to march through London calling for genocide of Jews and the mayor nods sagely and wisely permits free speech. Hold up a placard echoing the government’s view that Hamas are terrorists and Plod does the decent thing and arrests you to show the mayor’s loyal followers (naughty boy Lee thinks they are not followers but that’s another story) that he looks out for you. To be fair, his troops de-arrested (!) the bloke because the Plod had done something illegal and somebody noticed. And I thought the current custodian of the title was a slippery, slimy jobbie, but Genghis has him beat…
Would I be breaking the law if I strolled up and down near an abortion clinic holding a placard saying either:
(i) “Look before you leap”? Or
(ii) “She who hesitates is lost”? Or even
(iii) “What would your mother say?”
@John
‘No doubting that but the fun part will be Musk’s response. I hope it will be along broadly similar lines to his recent suggestion to Bob Iger which in turn echoed Pressdram.’
Musk will unfortunately have to cave. If he doesn’t he’ll be sued into oblivion, and if he refuses to pay he’ll be arrested by Cooper’s fellow travellers in the US.
The world is closing in I’m sorry to say.
See also:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/10/hong-kongs-decline-into-tyranny/
Cooper’s fellow travellers in the US
Way things are going for Nov ’24, the ‘fellow travellers’ will have quite enough on their plates to worry about besides Cooper’s butt hurt.
@Bloke in Pictland
and Nanny Ogg’s advice
(iv) Always get the young man’s name
Being afraid of the consequences of upsetting Islamic extremists is not ‘anti Muslim hate’ but a sensible reaction to their behaviour. Je suis Charlie and all. I’m pretty sure quite a lot of Muslims are scared of their religious extremists. Including that bloke whose shop was trashed for selling coke. Its not even a phobia because its a totally rational fear.
the stated policy of Hamas ‘Take 5 shekels buy a knife kill a jew’ is directly ant semitic. Anyone who supports them is therefore also.
Addolff
March 10, 2024 at 9:08 am
I am an islamaphobe, ie: Someone who knows a lot more about islam than the the moslems would like.
Doesn’t that make you an Islamaprobe?
Looking at yesterday’s “protests” in London yesterday, would have thought Islamaphobia is entirely rational & should be a protected characteristic.
Like peanut allergy”: “This product may contain Islam & consumption could cause severe illness or fatality”.
I think I made my mind up about Muslims as soon as I found out they raped all those children.
Steve
I think some of us found out about 4 decades before that.
@bloke in pictland…..quite possible you’d be arrested, how much further it would go not so sure, let’s not forget the process is the punishment and the law is loose enough to allow the police to legally harass you
A tad off topic but related to Saturday’s now traditional pro-Pally demo.
How can the police de-arrest someone? (The guy who was waving the “Hamas Terrorists”sign) They can release someone from arrest without charges. That’s been normal. But are they trying to say, retrospectively, the arrest hasn’t occurred? I’m sure I haven’t heard the expression before. So why are they using it, these days, rather than released from arrest? They trying to remove the concept of “wrongful arrest”? This does have serious implications.
Hold up a placard echoing the government’s view that Hamas are terrorists and Plod does the decent thing and arrests you to show the mayor’s loyal followers (naughty boy Lee thinks they are not followers but that’s another story) that he looks out for you. To be fair, his troops de-arrested (!) the bloke because the Plod had done something illegal and somebody noticed. And I thought the current custodian of the title was a slippery, slimy jobbie, but Genghis has him beat…
It also shows politicians, msm lying by describing the protesters as pro palestine. They’re pro Hamas
Mahyar has a good update
– Police backtrack from asault charge, now claim arrest was to remove him from harm from Hamas supporters. Guy had already run-away from those assaulting him, police did not remove him from it. !5-20 police throwing him on ground is hardly protecting him. Police should arrested the mob.
– Scottish Hamas women shouting “Where’s the police” – police there to protect the terrorist supporters, not public. Nor enforce law
– Police claim they couldn’t ID guy that punched, kicked him. He’s ID’d here and employer, financial services, has deleted him from website
https://youtu.be/X_2saceYHO0&t=52
Would I be breaking the law if I strolled up and down near an abortion clinic holding a placard saying either:
Yes if sign says “here to talk”
trying to remove the concept of “wrongful arrest”?
Yes