Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the @gbdeclaration that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
Twitter 1.0 rejected requests for verification by me and @MartinKulldorff . Each time the reasoning (never conveyed to us) was that we were not notable enough. They should have asked Francis Collins -- he would have vouched for our standing as "fringe epidemiologists."
It will take some time to find out more about what led Twitter 1.0 to act so imperiously, but I am grateful to @elonmusk, who has promised access to help find out. I will report the results on Twitter 2.0, where transparency and free speech rule.
It's a little melodramatic but I'll admit that the first thing that flashed into my head was the scene in "The Lives of Others" — spoiler alert — when the main character enters the Stasi Records Agency and is able to read his file. How exciting to enter the domain of the entity that has persecuted you, to be treated with respect and deference, and to be handed the written record of what they had been doing to you in secret!
Here's a news report on the Stasi Files (not from the movie):
A monument to transparency.
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I’m a night owl worker (looking for some distractions while working, hence reading this blog) and Althouse is an early bird retiree/blogger.
Anyway re this postL: I tried to read the quoted text twice and I still don’t know what the fuss is about. I also read Althouse’s commentary a couple times. Still I can only comprehend that I’m taking a break from my work on the left coast after 2:30 AM while non-worker-Althouse is starting her day in a flyover state. And she’s starting her day w/ Twitter jabber that is completely worth zero, as best as I can tell. Though I’m sleepy. Maybe Althouse isn’t shoveling out shit. Or, if she is shoveling out shit, maybe that’s what her audience wants/expects/demands.
IDK.
Meadehouse has shitty countertops and an ancient Sub-Zero.
I guess that’s why they need to suck up to, and hope for the scraps from authoritarians . If I was stuck like that I like to think that I’d have more integrity/dignity.
diff strokes for diff folks.
If *The Lives of Others* is an accurate analogy for the USA's establishment/insider tactics over the last 5-10 years, then Dr. Jay (humor: Pro basketball once had a Dr. J) reveals that many friends and allies were not considered friends or allies. His writing style is that of...a slow awakening to reality... This pattern happens when literal psychopaths take control of government and have no true competitors -- their main concern shifts from ideology to raw power, and manipulation. It's not a shock to most observers who've been following recent events, but it stands to reduce support among the naive insiders who went along with the establishment.
Democratic Party defectors such as Tulsi Gabbard, Krysten Sinema, and Andrew Yang are best positioned to 'garner' center-left support from Dr. Jay and others.
Somebody needs to go night-night.
Great video here. Thanks,
Stasi files, good old Putin. I sense a convergence of news stories.
"It's a melodramatic"
How so? Are "events, plot, and characters sensationalized to elicit strong emotional reactions from the audience . . . focused on exaggerated plots rather than characterization . . . [with] conflicts sensationalized for exaggerated character emotions and performances." What is Dr. J exaggerating and sensationalizing?
The capabilities of the Stasi were nothing compared to what Big Government Tech can do and is doing now. Thanks George Bush! Thanks Obama!
We need to pass laws in America that allow us to see what they have collected on us and what they have used it for, but we're going in the opposite direction. The war on domestic terror is just getting started. Some people love it.
Throughout the pandemic I was frustrated by the muzzling of dissenting voices within medicine. It wasn’t just Twitter, Facebook did this, too. My private Facebook doctor group was threatened to be shut down if anyone typed ivermectin in a post or dared share a link to data pro or con. Who appointed these snot nosed brats to determine what doctors could or could not discuss?
Stasi were required to find offenses against the state by everyone they investigated. Or at least, that was the result of their investigating.
Twitter was required to find offenses against "the rules" so as to ban everyone to the right of Schiff, Hillary, Schumer and Pelosi. Or at least, that was the result of their investigating.
Stasi famously had corrupted about half the country into informing on the other half, or even upon other informers. Often the informers did so in order to avoid punishment themselves, while they were useful, so the informers' reporting just maybe might have been a bit biased, or even completely fabricated, for self-protection. That was the true evil of Stasi employees and informers.
Twitter had thousands of employees and many of its users acting as voluntary informers who enjoyed blocking other users, to silence them. That was the true evil of Twitter users and employees.
That's what I love about the bloggess who doesn't care about the latest flip or flop fashion and spends her deplorable dollars on fact finding missions to the Rocky Mountains and the finer Austin smokehouses.
Re: The Stasi files video. Monitored his illegal trip to Hungary as we carry our self-locating device in our pocket wherever we go. Long before that, I smelled a rat when E-Z Pass first surfaced.
Sprezzatura?
More like Spredzamanura.
LOL
“It's a little melodramatic…”
The Truth will often be seen in that light.
Interestingly, more and more these days, in multiple blogs that I read, "The Lives of Others" keeps making an appearance.
Either we live in perilous times or I need to find some new blogs that discuss something else. Like making proper mortise and tenon joints.
“Though I’m sleepy.”
Is that what it is! And I’d thought you were just being your usual asshole-self…
Video is very apt.
A point the video made was it is a bit terrifying to find out who betrayed you. My guess is the same thing happened with Twitter, etc. Where some acted one way in public, then secretly lodged complaints against you, resulting in shadow banning, etc.
Dr. Malone on his substack, has two posts up currently on black propaganda, controlled opposition, and 5th generation warfare. The links were enlightening in the controlled opposition, black propaganda post. They are terrifying in their implications.
If I was stuck like that I like to think that I’d have more integrity/dignity.
You are kidding, right spritzer?
Ann what do you think now, looking back on lockdowns and the censorship and silencing that was used to promote them? About school closures, forced masking of children, and vaccine mandates? About the stigmatizing of people that did not get the vaccine? I always thought of you as a civil libertarian but I don't remember much push-back at all from you on any of it. Cruel neutrality I suppose. Even in the face of rank civil violations and cultural cruelty. Do you believe you were wrong not to speak up?
15.5k bags of shredded files? That's a lot of confetti.
A fine glimpse into a system where everyone really was a child, and everything they did went on their Permanent Record. Remember the dread Permanent Record?
Now we do it to ourselves.
Sprezz: the kind of guy who would invite himself over to take a dump.
Aussi Stasi: A plan to crack down on "social media abuse" is being considered by the federal government in Australia.
"Social credit introduced to access the internet, via your digital ID.
Citizens need 100 points of identification to use social media & the police will have access to your accounts including private messaging."
News report here:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1602042530845057027
“ It's a little melodramatic” = it’s melodramatic of me to go from the Twitter files to the much bigger deal of the Stasi files
“ Do you believe you were wrong not to speak up?”
Did you read my Covid posts before making that accusation?
I think there must be hundreds of posts, so what are you talking about?
Do you believe you were wrong to beat your wife?
'Do you believe you were wrong to beat your wife?'
"Define 'beat.'"
-- William Jefferson Clinton
Did any other iron curtain regime have anything approaching the stasis files? Those Germans....
Fans of Law & Order may remember ... During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, [John Munch] was an occasional reporter and music reviewer for the alternative magazine The Paper. Although he considered himself to be a "dangerous radical" due to his left-wing views, conspiracy theories and involvement with anti-Vietnam War protests, the FBI believed that he was a dilettante and posed no threat.
John Munch
Matt just posted an interview with Walter Kirn talking about the twitter files. He talks about how the FBI was/is? involved with twitter monitoring. This huge!
"they were/are monitoring and cataloging speech"
Not clear for what.
Link
Remember the season of House of Cards where one subplot is about evil Republican candidates using algorithms to suppress the speech and visibility of Democrat candidates online?
Yeah. Whenever someone accuses you of doing something you actually haven't done, you can be pretty darn sure they're actually doing it to you.
I'd love to be wrong on this, and I will apologize if I am. It would restore some faith for me. What I remember is you detailing your efforts to stay away from people for months. It seemed like a total buy-in to the whole Covid/Fauci/SocialDestruction project. It was depressing. I honestly don't know how to meaningfully search your past posts. Could you link to where you spoke out?
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