Responses to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter

Trolls are descending upon Twitter en masse even though the platform’s new boss has not yet changed its content moderation policies.

Last week, the world’s richest man, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, finalised his deal to take over Twitter.

He immediately fired the CEO and CFO and there are also rumours of mass lay offs planned for the near future.

Musk has been calling for greater rights to free speech on the social media app and there are fears that former president Donald Trump will be allowed back onto the platform, as well as trolls.

Now Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth, has revealed that within hours of the leadership change, trolls have tried to take advantage of the situation.

“Over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen a small number of accounts post a ton of Tweets that include slurs and other derogatory terms,” Roth tweeted. “To give you a sense of scale: More than 50,000 Tweets repeatedly using a particular slur came from just 300 accounts.”

Roth warned that most of the accounts were “inauthentic” — likely bots or fake accounts — and those accounts had subsequently been banned.

“We’ve taken action to ban the users involved in this trolling campaign – and are going to continue working to address this in the days to come to make Twitter safe and welcoming for everyone,” he wrote.

In a tweet on Friday, Musk addressed fevered speculation of mass reinstatements of banned accounts and revealed a decision had not yet been made.

“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” he wrote. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”

In a message to advertisers on Thursday, Musk insisted the platform “cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences” and that Twitter must be “warm and welcoming to all”.

However, Musk is a self-confessed “free speech absolutist” and several people have already made the decision to quit the platform.

After the takeover, Musk made a post that simply said “the bird is freed”.  This caused many to worry that the company’s moderation policies would be thrown out the window.

Musk completed the on-again, off-again, USS44 billion takeover deal late Thursday.

Musk signalled the deal was on track this week by changing his Twitter profile to “Chief Twit” and posting a video of himself walking into the company’s California headquarters carrying a sink. “Let that sink in!” he quipped.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/huge-twitter-change-within-hours-of-elon-musks-takeover/news-story/66ded47d7643e42180921a0d18fb860e

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Free speech under attack at Berkeley law school

What is happening now at Berkeley ought to shame especially those who believe in free speech and oppose discrimination.

Nine law student groups at the law school have managed to amend the university's bylaws to ban any speakers who support Israel or Zionism.

These are not groups that "represent only a small percentage of the student population," according to the Jewish Journal. They include Women of Berkeley Law, Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and North African Law Students Association, Law Students of African Descent and the Queer Caucus.
 
Berkeley Law's dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, a progressive Zionist, has observed that he would be banned under this standard, as would 90% of his Jewish students
 
Despite his statement that he would be silenced under the change in bylaws, Dean Chemerinsky responded to Marcus, claiming that not all student groups have banned pro-Israel and Zionist speakers.

This prompted Marcus to counter: "Would it be okay for only 5% or 10% of the campus to be segregated? What percentage of the Berkeley campus should be open to all? Shouldn't it be 100%?"
 
Marcus further rebuts Chemerinsky's assertion of a campus that does not discriminate: "Chemerinsky misses the point when he insists that all clubs admit Jewish students as members. No one denies this. Nevertheless, an unmistakable signal is sent to those same students when they are told that they would be barred from appearing as invited speakers. This sends a clear signal: Jews are not welcome, unless they deny their support for Israel which, for many, is an integral element of Jewish identity."
 
What do students have to fear from hearing arguments on all sides of an issue? If a university does not protect free speech, it becomes an agent of censorship, even propaganda.

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Has speech on Twitter become freer?

Billionaire Elon Musk has shared a cryptic tweet after he is understood to have sealed a $US44bn ($A68bn) deal to takeover Twitter.

“The bird is freed,” Mr Musk tweeted on Friday afternoon, sparking a lot of debate about what that could mean for the social media platform.

Twitter users responded by suggesting this might mean previously suspended accounts, such as the one belonging to former US President Donald Trump, could be reinstated.

Mr Musk’s tweet generated at least 19,000 replies and more than 170,000 likes within minutes of being posted.

Mr Musk sealed a $US44bn deal to buy out Twitter on Friday, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Twitter’s chief executive, Parag Agrawal, and chief financial officer Ned Segal are no longer with the company, unnamed sources said, as the Tesla founder takes the reins.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/online/elon-musk-nears-twitter-deal-finish-line-says-its-important-for-the-future-of-civilization/news-story/fdcb45aa1d8272c0a5666f59d7d8c859

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The Fascist Left blocks free speech at UC Davis

A conservative speaker event at the University of California, Davis was canceled after a fight between about 100 protesters and counter-protesters, including Antifa and the Proud Boys, broke out near the venue, university officials said.

It said that according to reports, some of those who took part in the melee wore apparel labeled 'Proud Boys' and that witnesses reported people with Antifa, a contraction for so-called anti-fascists, were also involved.

The event Tuesday evening was put together by a student organization affiliated with Turning Point USA, a group that organizes young people on college campuses to engage in conservative activism, UC Davis officials said in a statement Wednesday.

The university said the brawl began before a speech by Stephen Davis, who is known as 'MAGA Hulk.'

At UC Davis, the groups fought among themselves, used pepper spray, knocked over barricades and removed traffic cones, UC Davis said. The university didn't report any injuries.

'Some in the crowd used barricades to beat on the glass of the (off-campus) UC Davis Conference Center, where about 30 people were inside waiting for the event to begin,' it said.

Conservatives, including reporter Andy Ngo, shared video of a woman who said she'd been maced by members of Antifa during the brawl.

Student Affairs staff who were on site determined there was grave danger should the event continue and the student organization agreed to cancel the event out of concern for people´s safety, it said.

'It is unfortunate that the event could not proceed as planned,' UC Davis said. 'As a public institution, UC Davis values and supports freedom of expression as rights guaranteed to every citizen.'

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Canadian pastor jailed for holding church during COVID welcomes pardon, blasts Trudeau

A clergyman from Alberta, Canada, who was repeatedly imprisoned after not closing his church praised a plan from the province's new premier to pardon and compensate those arrested and fined over COVID-19 protocols.

"It's a step in the right direction, but I would like to see it being done," Pastor Artur Pawlowski told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.

Pawlowski, who is now running for political office after becoming leader of the Alberta Independence Party in September, has endured multiple dramatic arrests during the pandemic, including once in the middle of a busy Calgary highway on his way home from church and again on the tarmac of the Calgary International Airport after a speaking tour in the U.S.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who was sworn in on Oct. 11, is the first Canadian leader to apologize for discrimination against the unvaccinated in Canada, which has seen some of the strictest COVID-19 mandates in the world.

Earlier this year, Pawlowski spent 51 days in jail after being arrested following a speech to truckers who were blocking the U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alberta, in protest of Canada's vaccine mandate. The pastor told Fox News Digital after he was released that he was abused and humiliated by prison authorities, and that some guards tried to convince other inmates to hurt him, but that they refused.

Many of the charges against Pawlowski were dropped in June upon his appeal, but he still has outstanding fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars for keeping his church open and feeding the homeless in defiance of the government.

Pawlowski, who worries that Canadians have become complacent about what he says is growing tyranny in the country, said he never would have come to Canada after growing up under communism in Poland if he had known what he would have been facing.

"You're not allowed to question governments, you're not allowed to question the mainstream media, just like during my childhood when I was growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Poland under the boots of the Soviets," he said

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"Political Correctness Watch" censored

If you try to access PCWatch via Google, you get some lurid and quite false warnings about it.  Enough to put most people off accessing the blog. If you just access it directly using the usual link in the list of blogs below, you will still get straight through.

Anyway, I always create a backup whenever I post something so that should enable continued access to the blog.  I normally upload backups only once a month but from now on I will upload them daily. So see http://jonjayray.com/pcoct22.html for that

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Official Australian weather forecaster wants people to stop referring to it as the BOM

It's an abbreviation of "Bureau of Meteorology" but maybe it sounds a bit explosive

Not content with changing historical data to protect the image of Climate Change (sorry ‘homogenising weather data and closing stations with the hottest temperatures’), the Bureau of Meteorology decided to ditch its nickname ‘the BOM’.

Originally, the BOM wanted to be known simply as ‘the Bureau’ – which sounds like the perfect name for the weather arm of a dystopian dictatorship.

The BOM promptly started behaving like a pack of totalitarians by leaning on Twitter to ‘rectify’ the situation where ordinary users took up their ‘preferred Twitter handles’ @TheBureau_NSW and @TheBureau_AU. Twitter suspended or ‘freed’ those accounts.

The BOM’s narcissism ended in a backflip, with ‘The Bureau’ saying that people can refer to them in ‘any way they wish’.

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Olympic swimming star Sharron Davies suspended from her job after showing an interest in transgender issues

Poisonous bureaucrat Aedan Wolton alleged she was transphobic. But Social Work England looks pretty bad too

Wolton

Olympic swimming star Sharron Davies last night joined free speech and women's rights campaigners calling for the sporting quango's diversity chief, Aedan Wolton, to be fired or resign.

Mr Wolton, whose taxpayer-funded job is to 'tackle inequalities' in sport, had accused a former colleague, Rachel Meade, of making 'transphobic' posts on her private Facebook page.

She had shared links to news articles, including from The Mail on Sunday, about transgender issues, also to blogs and petitions surrounding the national debate over whether people should be allowed to self-identify their gender.

Mr Wolton's single complaint to the regulator Social Work England led to the mother-of-two being suspended from her job at Westminster City Council for a year.

In a humiliating climbdown, last week, Social Work England dropped its case against the 54-year-old, who said the 'last two years have been nothing short of an Orwellian nightmare for me and my family'.

Toby Young, from the Free Speech Union, said: 'It's ridiculous that she was put through two years of hell on the strength of a single complaint

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A free speech controversy in Australia

The current consideration by the Australian Human Rights Commission of a complaint by Green Senator Mehreen Faruqi against fellow Senator Pauline Hanson is a reminder that Section 18C remains a source of contention in the debate in Australia over freedom of speech.

The complaint arose out of an exchange where Senator Faruqi described Queen Elizabeth II as ‘the leader of a racist empire’ and Senator Hanson responded that Senator Faruqi should ‘piss off back to Pakistan’.

The Human Rights Commission will treat the complaint as based, at least in part, on Section 18C which makes it unlawful to do an act that is reasonably likely to, amongst other things, offend or insult another person or group of persons because of their race, colour or national or ethnic origin. There are certain exemptions but these are subject to the qualifications that the conduct must be reasonable and in good faith, questions the answers to which are obviously subjective and might only be determined after lengthy legal proceedings. Apart from the time involved in this kind of litigation, the cost may well be substantial for a person against whom a complaint has been brought, whether or not the complaint is finally made out, reflecting Voltaire’s truism that he had only been ruined twice in his life, once when he lost a lawsuit and on the other occasion when he was successful in a legal action.

The real objection to Section 18C has always been that it is sometimes impossible to have a robust public debate without offending or insulting persons or groups, some of whom may have a very high level of sensitivity. As Justice Harlan of the US Supreme Court said in a 1968 judgment, ‘the state has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish amongst us’.

It is said by the defenders of Section 18C that it is necessary to protect individuals and groups against ‘hate speech’. The term ‘hate speech’ is now used by many people to mean no more than expressions of opinion with which they do not agree. Genuine hate speech has, of course, always been subject to the criminal law which makes it an offence to incite violence against individuals or groups or the destruction of their property on any grounds, including race and nationality.

One of the most contentious aspects of Section 18C is that it can be – and has been – used to suppress expressions of political opinion. There is a crucial difference here from the law of defamation where it is a complete defence to prove the truth of the statements that are the subject of complaint. But Section 18C is not concerned with truth or falsity. If a statement is offensive or insulting, it does not matter whether it is true or not. Take as an example the statement that in and around 1915 up to 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey died, particularly through forced deportation to desert areas, because of the policies of the then Turkish government. There is certainly historical evidence for this assertion but it has been fiercely disputed by Turkish regimes ever since. Many Turks would be offended and insulted by claims of an Armenian genocide but the truth or otherwise of the allegation would be irrelevant to any complaint made by them under Section 18C.

In 2017 the Turnbull government tried to amend Section 18C to deal with some of these problems but the proposed changes were rejected by the Senate where the government did not have the numbers. It might be noted that not a word in support of the amendment attempt was heard from the bevy of legal academics and bureaucrats who are vociferous in their proposals for a national bill of rights. This is because their bill of rights, although it would presumably provide for a right to freedom of speech, would not override provisions such as Section 18C. The solution to Section 18C is not a bill of rights but simply not to enact that kind of legislation in the first place.

The justification for limiting freedom of speech should be a difficult test to meet. As another American jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, said in a 1919 judgment of the US Supreme Court: ‘I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expressions of opinions that we loath… unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country’.

What about the Nazi salute used by some of the spectators at a recent first-grade soccer match? Certainly offensive to many people but does this justify a lifetime ban on their attendance at future matches? Holmes would probably say this was not required to save the country. The same might be said about those who deny the existence of the Holocaust – an utterly absurd contention in the face of an avalanche of historical evidence to the contrary and obviously offensive to the Jewish community but arguably not a reason to make the expression of such a view unlawful as Section 18C would do.

Senator Faruqi is, of course, perfectly entitled to make a complaint to the Human Rights Commission and that body will consider the complaint on the basis of the existing law, including Section 18C. That does not alter the fact that Section 18C is a bad law and should be repealed. The right response to speech that one finds offensive is one’s own speech. Freedom of speech lies at the heart of a political system based on parliamentary democracy but it is easily eroded by provisions like Section 18C and, once weakened, difficult to restore to its true value.

https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/australian-notes-323/

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Legal group puts 12 universities on notice about free speech violations

Universities have established ‘a police state on campus,’ legal group says

A nonprofit dedicated to free speech and civil liberties sent letters to twelve universities which demanded that they change their free speech policies to protect student voices.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation informed twelve universities recently that their policies “operate to deter conservative and libertarian students from sharing their views on campus.”

Specifically, campus “[b]ias reporting systems and bias response teams stifle free expression by establishing a police state on campus, where students who cannot bear to hear views they disagree with report their conservative and libertarian classmates to campus administrators.” Bias systems and teams allow individuals to anonymously report complaints about other individuals.

The letters ask for the policies to be abandoned or revised to ensure that students have the ability to speak their minds in their college setting.

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Furious dad LOSES IT as Australian workplaces are told to stop using the words FATHER and MOTHER: 'Stop spending our money on this crap'

An angry dad has unleashed at workplace advice to stop using the word 'father' and 'mother' in a bid to be more inclusive.

Sydney-based queer health organisation ACON, which is primarily funded by the NSW Government and also receives money from the ABC, advised workplaces to abandon the terms to promote LGBTQ inclusion.  

The lobby group has suggested the words 'mother' and 'father' be replaced with 'primary caregiver' and 'secondary caregiver'.

In a training video, HR staff were told to avoid using gendered terms when writing office policies to make sure gender norms are not reinforced.

'When we continue to use terms that buy into that, such as 'maternity leave', 'paternity leave', 'mother', 'dads', all of these terms, that's reinforcing those gender norms,' the video states.

'So using terms like 'primary caregivers', 'secondary caregiver', making sure we're not referring to partners using gender terms like 'mother', like 'dad', is really important.'

Radio 2GB host Ben Fordham, who is also a father, slammed the initiative as a 'crack pot idea' being pushed by an organisation with an 'official relationship with the ABC'.

'This is a group that doesn't want anyone saying 'mothers' or 'fathers'. If you're taking advice from this mob, you need a check up,' Fordham wrote on Facebook.

ACON, which stands for AIDS Council of NSW, receives $13million in government funding every year and $4million from organisations who sign up as members.

'Pay them out of your own pocket. Because we don't consent to our money being spent on this crap.'

Listeners were quick to share their opinions in the comments.

'I am a Mother, a Grandmother and I will be dammed if I will be identified as anything other than that. I am a woman and proud of it,' one woman wrote.  

'It's diminishing my much treasured role as a mother and I will not bow to this insanity,' a second agreed.

'It's time to ban lobby groups and the funding to ABC - they do not represent all Australians so all Australians should not be paying for them,' a third commented.

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Private all-boys school has encouraged teachers to use gender neutral language instead of the terms 'boy' or 'young man'

Principal Deborah Frizza of St Bede's College in Menton, in Melbourne's southeast, said in a letter to staff this week that the school was looking to change the language it uses following updated Victoria Child Safe Standards.

'Can I ask that we start to use gender neutral language in our communications where possible?' the letter read, reports The Herald Sun. 'I know it can be challenging when communicating with the parents of senior students and calling them 'children', so if anyone has a better gender neutral term than this, please let me know.

'The use of the term 'student' rather than 'young man' or 'boy' can easily be made. I'm yet to find an alternative for 'Beda Boy' (graduated students), and given the history of this term, we would need to think carefully on any changes here.'

Following some backlash in the media, the college confirmed that 'at no stage' were teachers instructed not to use the gender-specific terms at all.

'There are, and will continue to be, boys, young men and 'Beda Boys' within our College community,' a statement from the school on Monday read. 'At the forefront of our minds is, and will remain, the inclusion of all students at St Bede's College.'

Victoria's updated Child Safety Standards say schools must: 'Pay particular attention to the needs of children and young people with disability, children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those who are unable to live at home, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children and young people'.

School campuses across the country are increasingly sparking debate as they make changes to become more inclusive.

Northlakes High School on the NSW Central Coast was recently accused of 'going woke' when they installed 'He/They' and 'She/They' signage of their toilet block.

In South Australia schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom they feel comfortable with or provide them a private bathroom.

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Elon Musk ‘wants free speech to reign on the internet’: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Elon Musk would likely push for more free speech on Twitter should the Tesla CEO purchase Twitter, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said.

Musk has been locked in an ongoing legal battle with Twitter after backing out of a deal to purchase the social media platform. The judge overseeing the case paused proceedings Thursday after Musk proposed to move forward with the original agreement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion.

"He appears to be a guy that wants free speech to reign on the Internet," Paxton told Fox News. "I welcome somebody getting into the marketplace that will just allow people to speak freely and not try to limit them based on what their political positions are or their religious positions."

"Those are sacred rights and sacred ideas that our founders built this country on," Paxton added.

The attorney general has been fighting his own legal battles against social media giants. A federal appeals court on Sept. 16 ruled in Paxton's favor and lifted a block on a Texas law that prohibits social media companies from banning users' posts based on their political leanings.

NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include Facebook, Twitter and Google, had sued Texas after the legislation was passed. The plaintiffs argued that the law was unconstitutional and that it violated their First Amendment rights to curate the content that appeared on their platforms.

But Paxton believes tech companies censoring posts is the violation. "We're talking about people being able to express their opinions," he told Fox News. "If we do not stop this, we are going to lose the ability to have practically free speech in this country … which means that there's huge advantages for people that have more liberal views than there are for those that have more conservative views."

"So, now the Fifth Circuit said, 'hey, wait a minute, you don't have the ability to, or discretion to edit out comments that you don't like or that you don't agree with as a company,'" Paxton said.

The case centered on themes related to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The 1996 statute shields internet companies from lawsuits related to content posted to their websites by third parties.

In other words, Facebook, for instance, would be protected if a user published defamatory or libelous content.

"Originally that was set up to allow them to be sort of like a billboard or like a place you could post information," Paxton told Fox News. "They were not considered a publisher, so they were not responsible for what people put on those sites, and therefore, they couldn't be sued for defamation or libel."

But now, social media companies are acting as a publisher by censoring content — particular conservative-leaning content — while still benefiting from the legal protection, Paxton said.

"If they can basically squelch free speech and viewpoints — conservative, Republican views — they can give Democrats a huge advantage across the country in all races, from local to presidential," he told Fox News.

"They're arguing, one, that they're not a publisher, they can't be sued, but then they're acting in the role of publisher," Paxton continued. "And so, when these states come in and try to regulate that, they argue both sides."

"Our argument is, if you're going to avail yourself of the protections of Section 230, and claim that you are not a publisher, then you can't act like publisher and discriminate against viewpoints," Paxton said. "You shouldn't then be allowed to protect yourself from defamation or libel because other publishers can't do that."

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/elon-musk-wants-free-speech-reign-internet-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton

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The Left’s ESG Movement Is Coming After All Americans

Americans were just issued a dire warning after “Dilbert,” a comic beloved by many over the years, was dropped from 77 publications after over three decades.

Created by cartoonist Scott Adams, “Dilbert” uses satire to poke fun at traditional office life on a number of issues, which recently included “ESG.”

As this particular comic strip explained, the ESG movement seeks to use a new set of criteria—environmental, social, and governance—to evaluate businesses and consumers based on how well they align with the progressives’ woke priorities, including climate radicalism, gender ideology, gun control, and even abortion on demand.

Probably not by coincidence, “Dilbert” was dropped from many major publications after pointing out the lunacy of such policies. There’s no doubt its culture-shaping commentary will be missed by many that enjoyed the subtle humor. What is not so subtle, however, is the ESG movement, which has used the Left’s fear-driven, systemic cancel culture to trigger major workplace policy changes and squeeze the syndication outlets for popular cultural figures like Dilbert.

But why should you care about what happens to successful cartoonists or in corporate boardrooms?

Because it’s not stopping there—the ESG movement is set on taking over culture and business to control working Americans through its radical and at times bizarre scoring system, which punishes or rewards people based on their race, sexual orientation, carbon footprint, or wokeness.

Small-business owners, investors, and consumers are the real targets of this rage against our culture and normal business practices. The ESG scorekeepers are looking closely at everything we do to identify “victims” and “oppressors.”

Think of it as an alternative accounting system using social media and corporate governance to punish those citizens and businesses that don’t fit into the Left’s woke ideological vision for the future.

If you don’t comply, they can work to drive away your customers, dry up your capital, and publicly shame you.

Need a fresh example?

In a House Financial Services Committee hearing in late September, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., asked CEOs of major banks whether they would go along with her ESG agenda and commit to stop funding fossil fuels. Unsurprisingly, they all declined and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon even admitted that her plan “would be the road to Hell for America.”

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, followed up and asked the CEOs whether they believed their banks had done enough to “atone” for their part in slavery.

Earlier in September, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for credit card companies to start categorizing purchases consumers make at gun stores. Soon after, companies like Visa, Mastercard, and American Express announced that they would fall in line and start tracking purchases.

This could essentially result in the creation of a de facto gun registry, maintained by private companies, that progressives could use to target law-abiding gun owners.

On Sept. 19, the corporate communications company Twilio announced that it would be laying off 11% of its workforce. Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson of course clarified that these layoffs would be made through an “Anti-Racist” lens. Under ESG policies, companies like Twilio will be rewarded for considering race, not merit, when making personnel decisions.

While this is just one of the early examples of woke governance policies, there will be plenty of other examples in businesses and companies of all sizes.

Dilbert was right; this is absurd, just not funny. So what can be done?

Over a dozen states—including Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee—have already fought back by protecting their states’ pensions, investments, and contracts, but more needs to be done to counter the ESG movement.

The federal government must also be kept in check with progressives like Tlaib hellbent on turning this into federal policy and President Joe Biden’s bureaucracy trying to use the Securities and Exchange Commission to do just that.

Whether you are Adams or an average American looking to make an honest living, ESG hurts everyone. Citizens and CEOs alike need to call out ESG when they see it, and unite to reject its implementation from the boardroom down to the factory floor.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/06/the-lefts-esg-movement-is-coming-after-all-americans-heres-how-it-can-be-stopped

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Brazilian teacher is fired from Catholic school after she was filmed doing Hitler salute while teaching a writing class

No word on what she intended by it

An 11th grade teacher was fired Tuesday from a Catholic school in Brazil after she made a Nazi salute.

Josete Biral was standing behind her desk in the classroom Saturday when she extended her right arm forward, as seen in a video recorded by one of the students at the Holy Family School in the southern municipality of Ponta Grossa.

Biral was wearing a t-shirt of the Brazilian national soccer team, a flag and buttons that supported President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection.

A male student was at her desk and then walks to the back of the classroom when she makes the anti-Semitic gesture that salutes Adolf Hitler.

Biral's firing was confirmed to Brazilian news outlet G1 by the school and her attorney, Alexandre Jorge.

Jorge said the video was taken out of context and was recorded by students who shared opposing political views.

He added that Biral was playing the Brazilian national anthem when she held her arm out and that she does not condone Nazism.

'Some students who [support] the candidate [Luiz Inacio] Lula started wanting to induce this side that she was making the symbol of Nazism.'

Holy Family School director Sister Edites Bet told the outlet first learned of the incident on Monday after the video had gone viral.

'It was certainly an act of imprudence on the part of the teacher and the school has already taken the first internal measures with her according to what our regiment says,' she said.

The gesture is known as the Hitler salute or Sieg Heil Salute and was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany.

Use of the salute is considered a crime in Brazil and is punishable with a prison sentence.

The Ponta Grossa Civil Police had not opened an investigation as of Tuesday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11304511/Brazilian-teacher-fired-Catholic-school-filmed-doing-Hitler-salute.html

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More censorship in Australia

Big Tech companies are not at all hesitant about being openly biased in how they operate as publishers of online content.

This month the Institute of Public Affairs attempted to promote a research video featuring Senators James McGrath and Jacinta Price and leading intellectual Dr Anthony Dillon, explaining why establishing a voice in the constitution would permanently divide Australia by race.

When the IPA attempted to pay a fee to Facebook to promote this research to a wider audience it was rejected on the basis that it would breach Facebook’s policies about social issues, elections or politics.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, asserts that ‘any advertiser running ads about social issues, elections or politics’ must include a ‘paid for by’ disclaimer on these ‘ads’. How the research video discussing racial equality violated Facebook’s policies was never mentioned. The farce was at least acknowledged by Facebook when it removed its ban – only to reimpose it a few hours later.

Attempting to cover its tracks, Facebook leaked their version of events to the Guardian, which defended the censorship: ‘The IPA warriors might have saved their outrage for another day if they had just read the fine print. It was not the content of their ad that was the problem. Facebook’s rules require ads which have political content to carry a “disclaimer, disclosure, and ad labelling”’, they wrote. Except, three days later in a story published in the Australian Facebook again changed their version of events.

Facebook finally came clean and admitted they were wrong to have removed the ban on the promotion of the IPA’s video, although they wrongly continue to maintain that the content of the IPA’s video required a disclaimer to begin with. A Facebook spokeswoman said: ‘The ad was live for a short period of time in error, but was removed as soon as we realised it was missing the disclaimer.’

Facebook’s admission of error is significant, because if even Facebook cannot figure out how their vague rules work, how can they be trusted to control what people say in the digital public square? It also reinforces the perception of millions of Australians that Big Tech companies are putting their fingers on the scales on the likely forthcoming Voice referendum, which raises questions about the integrity of that referendum.

Behaviour like this from Facebook has been encouraged by governments. In recent years a consensus has emerged among political leaders that Big Tech companies should be given more power and responsibility to undermine freedom of speech online. Former Liberal federal minister for communications Paul Fletcher’s misinformation and disinformation laws, announced just before the May federal election, would have given regulators extraordinary new powers to force digital platforms to crack down on ‘harmful’ disinformation.

Similarly, the not so Conservative government in the UK is pressing ahead with its Online Safety bill, which will force digital platforms to censor ‘lawful but harmful’ content. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has even likened online speech to ‘weapons of war’. In an address to the UN General Assembly, Ardern called on parties to take the ‘collective will’ to ‘bring us back to order’. One could be forgiven for thinking the type of order Ardern has in mind is one in which mainstream voters aren’t allowed to disagree with her government.

What happened to the IPA’s research video is an exemplar of what is one of the most significant challenges to freedom in our time. At a time when Australians are being asked to permanently enshrine race in the constitution, foreign-owned Big Tech mega corporations are asserting their power to control how that debate will be held, or if there will be a debate at all.

https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/owning-science/

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PayPal Stock Plunges Despite Pulling Controversial Policy Fining Users $2,500 for ‘Misinformation’

PayPal’s stock dropped more than 6 percentage points on Monday after reports emerged that the firm may attempt to fine people $2,500 for spreading “misinformation” via the platform.

Over the weekend, the company told The Epoch Times that “PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,” adding, “An [acceptable use policy] notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information,” the statement said.

But before, the firm had expanded its policy to prohibit “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “promote misinformation” or “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.”

Individuals who violated the policy could face a fine of $2,500 taken from their PayPal account for each violation. That policy was supposed to go into effect on Nov. 3.

Users were directed to PayPal’s user agreement, which states in part that PayPal can take a number of actions if users participate in restricted activities, such as holding their money in balance indefinitely. It also says that “you will be liable to PayPal for the amount of PayPal’s damages caused by your violation of the Acceptable Use Policy” at the amount of $2,500 per violation.

That money will cover internal administrative costs for PayPal to monitor and track violations and damage to PayPal’s brand, among other costs, according to the agreement.

Former high-level executives at PayPal sharply criticized the policy.

“A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity,” former PayPal President David Marcus wrote on Twitter.

Elon Musk, the head of Telsa who co-founded PayPal decades ago, said that he “agreed” with Marcus’s Twitter post.

Over the weekend, users on Twitter called for a boycott of PayPal and users indicated that they stopped using the payment company’s services. After PayPal’s mea culpa, critics of the firm did not appear convinced that the policy was issued in error.

Dan Held, the former chief of growth marketing for cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, wrote that users should delete accounts with the payment services provider.

“PayPal freezing funds for thought crimes is despicable,” he wrote over the weekend.

As of Monday morning trading, the San Jose, California-based firm’s stock slumped 5.5 percent. It’s down more than 50 percent in 2022.

Several weeks ago, PayPal banned a group named “Gays Against Groomers” that some LGBT activists claimed to be a “hate group.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/paypal-stock-plunges-despite-pulling-controversial-policy-fining-users-2500-for-misinformation_4786280.html

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Twitter Blocks FL Surgeon General Post Warning of 'Increased Risk of Cardiac-Related Death' from Vaccine, Then Makes a Huge Reversal

On Friday Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joe Ladapo tweeted about cardiac risks related to the COVID vaccine. Twitter blocked the post, but then later allowed it, which has prompted many to once again criticize Twitter for censorship practices.

Ladapo tweeted information about risks associated with the vaccine, particularly for young men, Politico reported.

“Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth,” he tweeted along with a link to a press release and a guide from the state’s health department with more information.

The information that Ladapo provided outlined how the Florida Health Department had run its own case series to look into the risks and safety of the vaccine.

“This studied mortality risk following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination,” the release from the health department reported. “This analysis found there is an 84 percent increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination.

Individuals with preexisting cardiac conditions, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, should take particular caution when considering vaccination and discuss with their health care provider.”

But after blocking Ladapo’s tweet with this information and the surgeon general’s warning about the vaccine, Twitter restored the post on Sunday, Politico reported.

“Our current misleading information policies cover: synthetic and manipulated media, COVID-19, and civic integrity. If we determine a Tweet contains misleading or disputed information per our policies that could lead to harm, we may add a label to the content to provide context and additional information,” Twitter’s post outlined, Politico reported.

Despite a lack of explanation on Twitter’s part about the decision to block and then unblock Ladapo’s tweet, it seems to be a pretty clear case of hysterical censorship from the social media platform.

Though it has its “misleading information policies,” the fact that Twitter blocked Ladapo’s tweet showed that it might indeed have a tendency to just block anything it may disagree with because Ladapo’s warning about the vaccine was not hysteria. There have been multiple studies linking cardiac problems to the vaccine.

Ladapo and the Florida Health Department were not going out on a limb when they decided to run a study on the vaccine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also warned about cardiac issues related to the vaccine.

The CDC’s studies did not show as drastic a risk as the Florida study, but nonetheless, it has been acknowledged for months that the vaccine has cardiac risks, particularly for young men, like myocarditis, which is an inflammation in the heart muscles.

“Myocarditis and pericarditis have rarely been reported. When reported, the cases have especially been in adolescents and young adult males within several days after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna),” the CDC reported.

The American Heart Association also warned of this risk.

“Across all ages, the risk of developing vaccine-related myocarditis was nine times higher for men than women. Males ages 16-19 faced the highest risk, with young men ages 20-24 having the second-highest risk,” the AHA reported. “The risk of developing myocarditis among males ages 16-19 after a third dose was about 1 in 15,000.”

Even BMJ, a British medical journal that is published by the British Medical Association, has warned of cardiac risks with the vaccine.

https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/twitter-blocks-fl-surgeon-general-post-warning-increased-risk-cardiac-related-death-vaccine-makes-huge-reversal

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Australian radio jock blasts newspaper for trying to 'ruin' him by pressuring advertisers to pull out of his radio show for saying 'spaz'

Kyle Sandilands has blasted a Sydney newspaper for 'manufacturing' a story about advertisers threatening to pull out of his radio show.

The Daily Telegraph has been pushing an anti-Kyle agenda in recent days, claiming there has been widespread outrage over his use of the word 'spaz' last week.

In reality, most listeners of The Kyle and Jackie O Show weren't offended by the term - which the publication called an 'ableist' slur - and only a handful of disability activists on Twitter have complained about it.

He said he was genuinely sorry if any regular listeners were offended by his words, but made it clear the story was a beat-up intended to 'ruin' him, adding that the station's advertisers only spoke out under pressure from The Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Telegraph had sought comment from blue-chip advertisers Bunnings and Vodafone distancing themselves from Sandilands' remarks, which were made during an on-air rant about KIIS FM's publicity team last Thursday.

The majority of Kyle and Jackie O's major advertisers, including McDonald's, Coles, Telstra, Uber, Jetstar and Chemist Warehouse, have ignored the story.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11289421/KIIS-FM-Kyle-Sandilands-slams-newspaper-urging-advertiser-boycott.html

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Nine Line Apparel ‘Florida Strong’ T-shirt ad rejected by Facebook

A retired US Army captain says he’s hit a firewall trying to advertise efforts to raise money for Floridians devastated by Hurricane Ian — and it’s called Facebook.

Tyler Merritt, CEO of Savannah-based Nine Line Apparel told “Fox & Friends” this week that his patriotic clothing company’s push to bring in cash for hurricane victims by selling a “Florida Strong” T-shirt have been rejected by Facebook.

He said he believes there’s a “trend” of anything appearing to be “conservative” getting flagged by the social media giant, adding he finds it “horrible — especially now [when] we’re trying to come together and saying, ‘Hey, let’s go help our friends in Florida.’”

“There is an algorithm out there that is targeting organizations like ours, in my opinion — and there’s no individual that we can reach out to” to complain to,” he fumed.

Merritt said his company has run similar altruistic initiatives to aid victims of natural disasters and is no stranger to Facebook’s suspect policies.

“They have you reach out to them and say, ‘Hey, would you please allow this advertising to go forward?’” he said. “It doesn’t actually make mention of any political individual initiative, but most of the time it falls on deaf ears, or we do not get responses.”

He said that he and his team have reached out to Facebook and its parent company Meta to get a clearer answer of their policies – to no avail.

“It seems that there is a trend that anything that is deemed conservative gets flagged, gets hindered and gets stopped,” said Merritt.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/08/nine-line-apparel-florida-strong-t-shirt-ad-rejected-on-facebook-tyler-merritt/

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