Elon Musk makes addressing Twitter’s child pornography problem his top priority
Musk, who has made sweeping changes within his newly purchased $44 billion company, responded to a report shared by Twitter user EvaFoxU, which features a human trafficking survivor about how the company “has begun addressing the issue of posting child sexual exploitation content on Twitter after years of the platform’s inactivity on the subject under past management.”
“Priority #1,” Musk said in response to the EvaFoxU tweet.
It wasn’t that past management was 100% inactive on the problem, but it apparently wasn’t all that effective, in part because the exploitators are good at somewhat veiled messages. At any rate, Musk has already done a lot more than his predecessors to make it difficult for those pushing child pornography to find a haven on Twitter.
I’ve said many times that I don’t use Twitter and don’t read there much. Every now and then, though, I post someone’s tweet here in order to make some point or other. But Twitter is big news because it helps to shape opinions for a lot of people. Obviously, the banning of certain ideas and certain people has had a huge effect on election results, and Musk’s commitment to more freedom of speech in that regard on the platform is laudable.
Child pornography and other types of sexual exploitation of children are different – very different – from political freedom of speech, or criticism of certain official medical recommendations on COVID. Child pornography and sexual trafficking are crimes, and rightly so. They need to be stopped on Twitter, and apparently prior to Musk’s acquisition those running Twitter were doing a poor job. He’s determined to do a better one.
As an example of what Musk is doing that the previous Twitter authorities weren’t doing, see this. Some of it involves getting rid of certain hashtags and some involves making it easier and more effective to report instances of child exploitation. New hashtags will spring up, of course. But now that more attention is being paid, the hope is that it will become far more difficult to use the platform for such ends.
Leftists and “queer activists” are attempting, in vicious and vile fashion, to place the blame for the recent shooting in CO on Tucker, Matt Walsh, and others such as Gays Against Groomers (whose accounts were shut down by PalPal and Venmo) and LibsofTikTok who have had the courage to speak forth clearly and rationally against the insanity of “trans activism” and “radical gender ideology”. The recent ad from Balenciaga was particularly distasteful, as is the complicity of librarians with numerous recent events (inappropriate for children) featuring “drag queens”. Musk is certainly to be commended for his part in the battle against the sexualization and exploitation of society’s most vulnerable.
I’m glad Musk is starting to clean up the mess of Twitter.
On a bit lighter note, in case you haven’t seen this wonderful video from the Babylon Bee on a fired Twitter employee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-voQsFY6SE
Rest assured that Musk will get no credit whatsoever for reducing / eliminating those tweets advertising child porn.
Given his political persuasion, whatever “good ” he does will be ignored or classified as meaningless.
The question that should be asked is why didn’t Jack Dorsey do something about child porn links on Twitter and why was he not condemned for his inaction.
Oh, that’s right; he worked with the DOJ, etc., to support demokrat positions and candidates.
Good for Musk.
Yes, Ben Collins with NBC and others have tried to tie Matt Walsh, Libs of TikTok, etc., to the Colorado Springs shooting because of their “criticism of drag queens.” The only problem with this theory is that the conservative sites have criticized drag queen shows for children, not gay performances for adults in adult settings.
Nor am I yet seeing any solid reporting about the Colorado Springs shooter and what his motivations may have been. Did he go there because it’s a gay club? Did he go there because it was nearby and he just wanted to kill someone? No answers yet.
Still no news about the shooter’s motive, Kate. Draw your own conclusions.
Good for Musk. But even more damning for Dorsey who was more interested in suppressing honest dissent than child porn.
WRT trafficking; There’s no wholesale without retail. I wonder if leaving Twitter open to such scum might allow the authorities, should any be interested, to track down the ultimate consumers.
In some progressive liberal sects, children and adults are politically congruent (“=”). #NoJudgment #NoLabels #LoveWins #AbortSequesterTheBurdenOfEvidenceInDarkness
I’m becoming a fan of Elon Musk. I’ve been asking why some conservative billionaire didn’t get into the media business and give Fox and the Murdochs some competition. Well, he’s not exactly a conservative – I would guess more of a libertarian with ethics.
I heard that Twitter has 300 million users. Wow! What TV network wouldn’t like to have that many viewers? I don’t understand those users who say they can’t live without Twitter, but that’s a powerful media footprint. If Musk can clean it up, it might become an ethical free speech forum. I probably still won’t use it, but I can see how it could become a force for good. Go, Elon!
@ Kate > “Nor am I yet seeing any solid reporting about the Colorado Springs shooter and what his motivations may have been.”
That’s because the Left has run into a speed-bump in their race to run over Republicans.
You might say that they are behind the Times.
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2022/11/22/attorney-suspected-colorado-mass-shooter-identifies-as-non-binary-n663047
@ physicsguy > “in case you haven’t seen this wonderful video from the Babylon Bee on a fired Twitter employee:”
As with most of the Bee’s short films, that one is brilliant.
I wish their writers and actors were getting credited somewhere, but they may still be undercover in Hollywood etc. and want to keep their day jobs.
Saw that, AesopFan. When I had previously seen the shooter’s photo, I had thought that he didn’t look particularly masculine; not a Rambo shoot ’em up type. Now it appears he’s had emotional troubles for quite some time. But with all that, and his having live-streamed his bomb threats last year, there’s still no public explanation for why charges weren’t filed at that time. He was an adult, not a juvenile.
Now that Musk has child pornography in his sights, the vindictive Left—led by the loathsome Garland—may well decide that this is the time to actively promote it.
(To be sure the “Biden”-promoted policy of sexualization of children in the schools, together with the glorification of child mutilation, physical and emotional by the gender transitioning cult, has already taken off, with the full encouragement of “Biden”‘s benighted regime.)
File under: “It’s the ideology, stupid.”
https://www.city-journal.org/when-ideology-trumps-empathy
H/T Powerline blog.
I expect the shooter to be memory holed…
Father his estranged, ex con, mma fighter, and porn star.
And abused the shooters mom
And…
NY Post
Colorado Springs shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich is nonbinary: lawyers
https://nypost.com/2022/11/23/colorado-shooting-suspect-anderson-aldrich-is-nonbinary-lawyers/
Now the shooting will be disappeared by the MFM post haste. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if some try to claim the right “made him do it”. Or Trump, yeah that’s the ticket.
@ FOAF > “Now the shooting will be disappeared by the MFM post haste. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if some try to claim the right “made him do it”. Or Trump, yeah that’s the ticket.”
It’s already started.
The Left, being experts at turning on a dime, now claim that the non-binary shooter was the victim of bullying by (presumably straight) kids as a teen so that’s why he decided to kill — transgender & gay people — ??
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/11/23/insane-narrative-shift-occurs-after-bombshell-revelation-q-club-shooter-is-non-binary-n663097
AesopSpouse suggested that he might, indeed, have a motivation for choosing this particular venue for vengeance, IF he was also being rejected by his new chosen “group”.
After all, the loud, leftist narrative for years has been that people who suddenly discover they are transgender inevitably receive the accolades and affection denied them when they were straight oppressors.
If that’s not forth-coming (for any reason, but a strong contender is that physical attractiveness is a component of admiration in any identity group), then a lot of anger could build up.