Kit Knightley – Off-Guardian Aug 22, 2024
Donald Trump is back on the app formerly known as Twitter. After almost four years in the “Truth Social” wilderness he sat down with Elon Musk for a 3-hour conversation.
On our side of the pond, Musk is taking every opportunity he can to troll Keir Starmer’s government, comparing the UK to something from 1984 (accurately, it must be said).
During the Olympics, he chimed in with criticism of controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif for being a “man beating up women”.
Wherever there is controversy, Musk (or the PR intern running his X account) appears to pour fuel on the fire.
That’s not to say everything Musk says is wrong. A lot of it is right, or at least defensible and rational, but I think that itself is an integral part of the construction. Sugar among the salt, aiding in the sale of the overriding narrative:
“Elon Musk – the world’s richest man, and Free Speech Champion”.
(subtext – there are some oligarchs you can really trust)
How did it come to this? And Why?
To give you my answer to that, let’s go back in time a few years B.E. – Before Elon.
Under the ancien régime, Twitter purged the alt-news crowd, labelled provably real people as bots, and told dissenters “If you don’t like it, go and start your own platform”.
The trouble with that was…that’s exactly what they did. Newer smaller versions of Twitter began to appear – Truth Social and Gab and so on and so on.
And when you’re an all-encompassing supranational corporate-governmental monster addicted to surveillance and control…that’s kinda counterproductive, because now you can’t hear what’s being said, and you can’t steer the conversation.
What is the point of spending billions creating a massive surveillance network if you keep banning all the people you want to surveil?
What good is it spending the budget of a medium-sized country on influencers, bots and shills, and then stopping people from seeing them?
No, banning doesn’t work, it just puts people outside your system of influence and control.
Outside the system is bad, they need everyone inside. They don’t care if you’re praising or criticising, loving or hating, defending its existence or denying it – everything is acceptable, as long as you do it where they can see you.
They needed to invite those banished souls back inside, and the most efficient way of doing that was to adapt the Red/Blue fake dichotomy model of elections to the world of social media.
In short, to bring the banned people back and patch over the hole they’d made, they needed to rehabilitate Twitter.
Enter Elon Musk, and “X”.
It’s all about creating a controlled opposition.
The contrived binary between the “good” social media platforms – whose CEOs attend congressional hearings and simper about “social responsibility” vs the “bad” social media platforms – whose CEOs post rude memes.
The “safe space” vs the “free-for-all” (or at least, the pretence of a free-for-all – but we’ll get to that).
From the moment Musk acquired Twitter, the rebrand was on.
Alternate media journalists were invited to inspect Twitter’s “top secret files” and came away with some “shocking” revelations, including:
- Twitter engaged in “visibility filtering” (aka shadow banning) and algorithmic censorship of anti-establishment people and opinions!
- Twitter enabled the Pentagon to operate sock puppet accounts for running psyops!
- National governments used to ask Twitter to remove stuff, and sometimes they did!
Phew! Who knew, right?
It always amazes me how much traction they get by simply telling people an incredibly watered-down version of what we already know. I guess because we are all so pathetically grateful to hear even a small amount of semi-truth coming from ‘official sources’.
But the Twitter files were just the start, further displays of overt ‘pro-free speech’ behaviour followed. Most recently including unbanning Trump and announcing the closure of X’s Brazil office rather than complying with government censorship.
All of this has contributed to the birth of a cult of personality around Elon as the supposed “champion of free expression”, with X itself labelled the “last bastion of free speech”.
In the wake of the so-called assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the rallying cry of the Musk worshippers was “thank God for X, or we’d never have known the truth”.
So you get memes like this…
The branding is clear: Musk is the people’s billionaire, the “pick me” mogul who’s “not like the other oligarchs”.
You don’t need me to explain how useful this dynamic is in controlling mass opinion. It’s creating organised religion for the atheist generation. Tenets of faith no different in purpose and far tackier in presentation.
Importantly we should ask: Has Twitter even really improved now that it’s “X”?
No it hasn’t. The “left-wing” Musk critics are right about that.
Maybe there is an increased amount of overt racism and race-baiting, or maybe now it’s just promoted. Either way, there’s no ignoring it.
What equally can’t be ignored is the massive proliferation of ads and porn bots and the same gifs and videos clogging every discussion. Monetisation has led to an avalanche of accounts farming engagement with blatant clickbait, ragebait, cutebait….just, all the bait.
All the while, these newly unpleasant facets of X are being brandished by the pro-censorship “left”, and used to discredit the very idea of free speech in general.
“See, absolute freedom of speech just means racism and porn”, they get to say, “We need more regulation!”
Now, there’s an argument that all the bait could be considered “the acceptable price of free speech”…
…if free speech was what we actually got.
But it’s not.
For some reason, since the “Twitter files” released and in combination with Musk’s unearned reputation as a “free speech absolutist”, people have assumed that Twitter – now X – no longer allows shadowbans, psy-ops or cooperates with government-backed censorship.
But they do. They very obviously do.
Case in point: OffG. We have a Twitter/X account with almost 61,000 followers.
Back when Twitter was Still Twitter any link to our website was subject to an auto-warning that it might be potential spam. We were also intermittently shadowbanned, which had a very obvious effect on our reach, though our tweets could still get thousands of retweets and likes.
When Twitter became X the auto-warning was removed.
But our reach diminished – massively. We are now told all the time that people haven’t seen our tweets or links in years. A successful tweet of ours gets maybe 200 likes, most remain in double figures.
So, for our account at least, “uncensored” X is no kind of improvement.
CJ Hopkins (who has written about this psyop himself) was temporarily labelled a distributor of “adult content”, and hidden behind warnings, while dozens of OnlyFans girls can be found in almost any reply chain shilling their “wares”.
This is quite obvious “visibility filtering” in action, and all the truly anti-establishment thinkers are subject to it.
It’s all about “speech not reach”, ensuring all independent thought is quarantined off in its own little virtual “free speech cages”.
Instead of banning the voices they don’t want to speak, they lock them up in soundproof rooms where they can scream their lungs out, and only the FBI agents set to monitor them can hear, and only bots designed to control them will respond.
Now, clearly that’s preferable to going to prison for posting anti-immigrant memes, but should free speech really be graded on that curve?
Nevertheless, that’s the situation in which we find ourselves.
So, what we’re left with is two versions of “free speech” to choose from…neither of which is actual free speech.
The battle lines are drawn up and either you’re with the government or you’re with Elon Musk. An entirely fake a war between overt censorship and covert censorship.
They won’t allow a third way. Like everything else these days.
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Haha .. the “Musk” or Mask has “transformed” from globalist traitor, tunnel digger for human trafficking and Trump hater to Q activistic red pill truther and mil. operator in a couple of years .. what you see is that EO13818 can dispossess anyone involved with human trafficking or corruption, even abroad ..
I remember when people, on here, years ago, were complaining about those who used pseudonyms, were cowards. Yes, they really did. They posted with their own name, using their own name email address, failing to completely understand the CONTROL the authorities have over you, through your name – that is, the legal person/fiction. The minute people sign their name, on a document/contract/website, they immediately adhere to ALL the terms and conditions within.
And I wonder how many have actually read the terms and conditions of Farcebook and Twatter? Nope, you can guarantee that 99.9% haven’t. And then they wonder WHY the pigs, knock on their door, wanting to have a ‘word’, with them, about their content on social media, later to be arrested and charged with some hate crime (as we can see happening on a growing basis today)?
All social media sites are nothing more than honey traps. YouTube has now turned into a speech programmer, where people are now changing the way they normally write in order to ‘try’ and bypass YouTube’s heavy, left wing biased, censoring algorithms, that delete ‘wrong-think’ within seconds.
Every single politician, whether speaking for the people, or not is controlled.
Every single journalist, whether speaking for the people, or not is controlled.
Every single social media influencer, whether speaking for the people, or not is controlled.
The people really do not get it. They are utterly oblivious that they are nothing more than rats in a cage. It’s nothing but billions of instances of ‘The Truman Show’.
What’s new? Nico X for years has been saying Musk is a mischling techno-Communist frontman of ZWOG, playing a phony designated ‘anti-establishment’ right-wing rebel role to dupe & neutralize any resistance from the right-wing to techno-Communism.
An expensive rug & alot of plastic surgery on this Musk Commie Yid to make him into a ‘white man’ to dupe the Trumptards & Putintards with.
third way ? does not matter . I am with the
palestinians anyway !
I seriously doubt Musk is the richest man in the world. I doubt he personally wants to be known as such. Likely, he is a creation of some the richest men and women in the world most of whom just happen to be Jewish.
What Companies Does Elon Musk Own anyway? He is said to be the “a” large stakeholder in several companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Co., Neuralink, and X Corp. It may be that Warren Buffet as more ready cash than he, or Gill Gates, or even Larry Fink. He certainly does not have as much power and influence as the Rothschild dynasty whom he probably serves in one way or another. He also appears to be quite firmly under the control of the US government and what we know as the US “deep state”.
Like Bill Gates he appears busy trying to control all or our tomorrows with cutting edge technologies, and wants to corner various new markets predicted through thinktanks, and computer projections to replace the old ones. Like Gates, he is most likely a shill for powerful plutocrats families who use and control promising people to capitalize through their exclusive insider information to be good investments. Unlike the more totalitarian Bill Gates who came out of a Planned-Parenthood and a Nazi-friendly IBM mold, it appears Musk has different roots which one would hope in the final analysis are not as diabolical as those of Mr. Gates. The image of Bill Gates presents a creeping technological tyranny to many of us, while Musk with his various enterprises presents various technologies at least with a human face. I am personally impressed with his regard for children and having them, and his tendency to go against the majority plutocrat thinking that there are too many of us. There is some light in the man but I see none if Mr. Gates.
Good ol’ Kit, as usual, asks the right questions! The conclusion made is that Elon Musk took over Twitter/X precisely to get the “outsiders” back inside…which I have suspected from the beginning. Because that is what “controlled op” or bogus “alt-media” does. Same with Trump, but politically–he’s trying to get the whole MAGA nonsense going again to bring about…MIGA? (Since we all know on this site who Trump really supports! After all, didn’t some Talmudic rabbi call Trump “the non-Jewish messiah”?) Further, Musk is a transhumanist–which means I wouldn’t join X for all the “tea in China.” I’ll always be an outsider…”in the world but not of the world,” as Christ put it (just not perfect like Christ though.)
“20% more free” is not FREEDOM.
TWATTER is only marginally more accepting than it was before Elon Zion bought it.
If a nobody like me cant speak their mind on that platform, then every. single. “person” on there of note is full – of – shit.
Full stop.
Oh dear, it’s Kit with not much to say.
X is only pitched as free speech to the thicko sheeple. When I was in Twatter, my max was about 3.5k in followers. Take Piers Morgan, with his deliberately inflated following. He would berate those with low follower numbers, and oblivious to the Twatter algorithms stitching everyone up.
Before Twitter was sold to Musk, the EU and Nazi UK threatened to ban Twitter, and the reason why they didn’t, is because the various Nazi deep states in the EU and UK remained in total control.
I was never under the illusion that Twatter was free speech. I go back to 2000/1/2/3, when I was in the BBC Today forums (2), and I was censored relentlessly, even though the material I used had already been publish. They just hated the fact it have been dot joined into a narrative which destroyed the fake Nazi narratives.
This chap who’s been jailed for hate speech, he had/has over 100k followers. Believe me, if this is true, they helped him, or his data was faked. My guess is that he, along with others, was groomed by the Nazi deep state.
Shayler, Snowden, and Assange are other. There’s a big list, and many more to come.
WLM
White Liberation Movement
@time is running out
I dont register anywhere . I dont use facebook, google,
yahoo, jewtube etc but I know with all the secret sniffers
there will be always a way for them to reach + control + read
what you are typing . long live the censored + put down :
incogman, jimstone.is, jimstoneindia.com, voterig.com,
yukon jacks blogs, michaelmannheimer blog arsen murdered
by jew agents !
I put “Six million liars, maybe” on You Tube and they wanted a conversation about that and some other comments I tried when I relaxed too much. Not talking there now. SML is a good name for the holloch
I survived 10 years under the reign of Dorsey. After the street pooper Parag took over it didn’t take long until I got kicked out. I have no idea how it is under the era of the muskrat but I don’t trust him. In any case the Dorsey years was not that bad. I got a few 12 hour suspensions every now and then. Fortunately 12 hours pass quickly at my age.
The fact he had to buy twitter for way too much money shows he is an idiot first class.if he was this supposed supertechie ,he would have created his own platform with digital currency on the go.it would have made him the richest and most influential in the world.anyway,he always was an idiot fronting some big scams.tesla,spacex,starlink,all money siphoning operations,with little innovation (Tesla) to outright scams ,spacex-fakex,
So how do you explain Everything that went on for DECADES before Computers and UNSOCIAL media were invented?? Off Guardian?? You sound like a fully paid up member of the Globalist Far Left STAZI!! aka a Guardianista
Looks like a Kweir
Sounds like a Kweir
…probably a Kweir
#UNITEWHITE
-the article is 100%.
Musk is just a front freak for DARPA. Musk is a Jew. Elon is a very common first name in Israel. Musk is also a female to male, transsexual androgyne or a Tranny. So many “beautiful people” on the upper rungs of the capitalist, socio-political, entertainment dung heap are. The kosher Controllers just love rubbing perversion in our faces. They especially get a kick out of it knowing that most sheeple are clueless about what they are really seeing. By the way, many months ago, a similar commentary by me about Musk on C J Hopkin’s site got me “Banned for a hundred years” When Hopkins emailed me to tell me, I told him to tell the censor I said to go plow his pox riddled, whore mother. I doubt very much he did.
Alex Jones tries to get Trump and Musk into his own sphere, but both are too tight with Jew money, and AJ works for them in the end too, by adopting their main talking points and being full of vices
he is just a trap for goyim like Zuckerberg + many other jews .
Biden is a trap, Trump is a trap, Harris is a trap + many others .
Make Israhell Greater Again hahahahahahahahahahaahahahah
It’s more bullshit and lies. I was banned on X forever for saying the word “JEW” with regards to deceptive financial and military practices, so BOOM, so much for “FREE SPEECH.” Yes, it’s free speech so long as you never say anything negative about the Jews or IsraHell. Do that, and they cut your goddamn throat.
We will be free in the jungle. That’s where the some Paraquay Guarani tribe members escaped from Jesuit’s reductions where they professed communism. That’s why I moved to the country site as a substitute for that.
I don’t know why those guys from Africa come to Europe. To be slaves in this communist Barrack?.
Fred B, I believe you’re right Musk is by no means the richest getting around not even close. He isn’t even a foundation yet. All government money which means tax payers. He can’t even get Two astronauts home in a couple of weeks but they say he throws up thousands of equipment up there. B.S.
The first day Musk took over the bird 5 Palestinian intellectuals were banned. I don’t do X never have done same with Facebook and so on. Ok in essence I believe he is powerless.