It’s not just GOP Sen. Rand Paul who has some grievances to air this Festivus. Washington Post news media reporter Paul Farhi also has a major bone to pick. Namely with none other than Elon Musk.
See, it seems that even after Musk said that he’d reinstate the accounts of journalists whose accounts had been suspended for possibly abetting doxxing, he still had some criteria that they needed to meet before they could really and truly come back to Twitter. And Farhi apparently has a problem with that:
.@elonmusk said the journalists he suspended from Twitter could return. What he didn’t say is there was a catch. The journalists have refused to meet his terms and remain locked out. Latest by me: https://t.co/rWTXkdDWii
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) December 23, 2022
Twitter has privately demanded that the suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Musk’s ire in the first place — a condition the reporters have refused to accept.
The result is a stalemate: The suspended journalists remain in Twitter purgatory, unable to access their accounts.
The tweets in question mentioned or linked to a Twitter account called @ElonJet, which tracked the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet using publicly available flight data. All of the journalists were covering or commenting on Musk’s decision to banish the account, which he said threatened his family’s safety by tracking his movements.
First of all, as some very thorough tweeters were careful to point out, it looked a lot like the “publicly available flight data” was actually private, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the @ElonJet Twitter account, took some ethical license by posting the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s private jet.
And second of all, are we supposed to be upset about journalists being told to delete their problematic tweets? Farhi sure seems to think so. But we couldn’t disagree more. Because we’re not. Not even a little bit.
https://t.co/P0vu3qnPpx pic.twitter.com/4nCC7JnTc2
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 23, 2022
The tiny orchestra is deafeningly loud right now.
Welcome to how Twitter is for everyone else, WaPo.
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) December 23, 2022
Literally every suspension ever. https://t.co/lLY894vqHc
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) December 23, 2022
We plebs have been threatened with permanent suspension for not deleting tweets that journalists didn’t like for ages, and we plebs were told to just suck it up because those were the rules and if we didn’t like them, too bad. Even if the rules were applied arbitrarily and overwhelmingly to critics of liberal media.
And now we’re supposed to show solidarity with journalists in their righteous indignation because they’re having to abide by the dumb guidelines we all had to follow? The hardest of passes, Paul.
https://twitter.com/FearTheFloof/status/1606348525759074322
So does the New York Post, no doubt. We don’t recall Paul Farhi or his Washington Post colleagues or really any stunningly brave member of the firefighting mainstream media raising so much as an eyebrow on behalf of the New York Post when Twitter (and Facebook, and other media outlets) went to work trying to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. And now that we know that that suppression was done with the support and prodding of the Biden campaign and the FBI, Farhi et al. still aren’t losing any sleep over that.
But when dipstick clowns like Aaron Rupar lose access to their Twitter accounts, we’re all supposed to grab our torches and pitchforks and rally to journalists’ defense. Please.
https://t.co/xfBxkD7xam pic.twitter.com/ibp3Xqvqxh
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 23, 2022
Where were you guys?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 23, 2022
They were telling the New York Post to quit their whining and telling us to shut up and respect Real Journalism™.
Just delete the tweet, journo. Then you can come back. https://t.co/x94EXjgvuy
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) December 23, 2022
The mind-numbingly fragile, victimhood mentality of these "journalists" continues to amaze and impress me.
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) December 23, 2022
Go cry us a river, Paul. Try not to drown in it.
And don’t expect us to throw you a life preserver.
Think about how self-regarding and pathetic these people are:
For years, journalists have been banned by Big Tech and they cheered, demanding more.
NY Post's reporting was blocked and were locked out for 2 weeks.
Now their friends were banned for 12 hours: Free Press Crisis! pic.twitter.com/iGN4p2aTrH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 23, 2022
Yep.
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