This is the view not just of Ellen Pao, but of many more among the Leftist intelligentsia.
“Former Reddit CEO Tries to Make ‘Free-Speechers’ Label an Insult,” by Elizabeth Stauffer, Western Journal, April 7, 2022:
Whether or not you think Elon Musk’s 9.2 percent stake in Twitter will stop or at least reduce the company’s undisguised efforts to censor conservative content on its platform, this news has certainly catapulted the issue of free speech into the national conversation.
Simultaneous admissions from major media outlets that the Hunter Biden laptop stories they dismissed and Big Tech suppressed ahead of the November 2020 election are real make the issue even more relevant.
If the social media giants are able to sway a U.S. presidential election via active censorship of true stories, they have too much power and it needs to be reckoned with.
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has just provided us with the first clue as to how the left will fight back against calls for free speech in America — ridicule and insults.
Supporters of free speech are — you guessed it — racists, Pao told her Twitter followers on Tuesday.
“At the end of the day, the free-speechers really just want to be able to use racist slurs,” she said, sharing a racist email.
“They really don’t care about sharing new ideas or encouraging freedom other than the freedom to harass other people off the platform,” Pao said.
Pao’s second comment could have been written by a conservative to accurately describe liberals….
Doomer says
That is true,it is even worse, youtube now has said if somebody contests the OFFICIAL story ( that the Bucha massacre was done by RUSSIA),
then the account would be eliminated.
Just like if you make a video contesting the official version of the coronavirus treatment.Eliminated.
Even war the antiwar Leftists have a pathological hatred of Israel, they are LIBERTARIAN MARXISTS ( true believers in Freedom of Speech).
gravenimage says
Certainly, one has the right to say that Russia is not killing Ukrainians in their invasion of Ukraine and that it is actually Ukrainians slaughtering their own people in order to make Russia look bad.
Sane people also have the right to counter this bizarre and ugly tosh.
Wellington says
+1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington.
Doomer says
But there is evidence the Zelensky regime did it as a FALSE FLAG:
one is that the MAYOR of Bucha made a video 2 days after the Russians left,
he was very happy, said they were gone,made NO mention of any massacre.
1. Another is the article by Leo Goldstein (in American Thinker) 2 days ago:”Was there really a massacre at Bucha?”
He was born and bred in KIEV, and he is a serious writer. In that article he also says the MASS GRAVE in Bucha has bodies of people who died for several reasons,not due to a massacre.
Leo Goldstein gives almost all the evidence that proves it is a Flase Flag. He has written the following articles for AMerican Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/author/leo_goldstein/
Was there really a massacre at Bucha?
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gravenimage says
Actually, just implying that the morgue being full in Bucha and their having to resort to burying people in mass graves being *normal* is truly bizarre.
And then claiming that since Leo Goldstein was born in Kiev that he is ergo privy to all the details of the Russian invasion from a distance now is very odd.
I usually quite respect The American Thinker, but this makes no sense at all.
Also, you have gone from claiming that all of these Ukrainians were killed by their own people to citing an article that simultaneously claims that this was all staged and that mass graves are perfectly normal is quite bizarre.
But this does not surprise; there were many similar conflicting claims over 9/11, where apologists both claimed that it never happened and was all special effects and that it was actually done by Mossad and George Bush or the developer of the World Trade complex.
gravenimage says
And describing those who support the brutal, unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine as “antiwar’ is positively Orwellian.
gravenimage says
Former Reddit chief uses ‘free-speechers’ as a pejorative term
……………….
The idea that free speech is “racism” is just grotesque–but who can be surprised by this calumny?
Jon Sobieski says
Does she not know about the block button?
gravenimage says
That would only block her from seeing certain posters.
What she wants, of course, it to cut them off entirely.
libertyORdeath says
Seems like it would be much easier to just ignore posts or emails you don’t like…but that’s not really the point now is it?
gravenimage says
Nope.
Wellington says
Leftism is not only a mental disorder, it is also inimical to liberty. And as long as one remains a Leftist, they will not recognize this, rather as long as one remains a Muslim they will not recognize so many “malfunctions” that exist within the Islamic theological blueprint.
Get the ideological blueprint wrong of any belief system, secular or religious, though believing all along there is no error in the blueprint, then all else that will be concluded per guided by such blueprint will itself be wrong more or less—usually more. And often with catastrophic results for mankind. With Marxism and Nazism, a “mere” matter of decades or a century. With Islam, we’re dealing with error of a massive kind well over an entire millennium.
1) Freedom, 2) capitalism, 3) a decent and fair legal system and 4) a proper moral code. This is all it takes for any polity to not only survive but to thrive. Look at all of the past and, anyone, tell me when all four of these factors have been in place there has not been success all around?
Every, let me repeat, EVERY failure of mankind, virtually without exception, has been due to one or more of the four “ingredients” I listed above absent in the human record. My God, the recipe is so simple. But the implementation of the recipe is the key. So far, way too far, the “implementation” has not occurred time and time and time and time again. What a waste since the answer is staring mankind right in the face. Yes, what a waste, and as now best exhibited by Russia’s useless, destructive and horrible invasion of Ukraine, which only points to how deficient Putin and his minions are and how far away they are from the four “ingredients.”
Mankind seemingly never learns. “Bout” time it did. Way overdue. But I fear mankind never will.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“1) Freedom, 2) capitalism, 3) a decent and fair legal system and 4) a proper moral code. This is all it takes for any polity to not only survive but to thrive.”
Yes, and we are currently losing.
In today’s United States, we have partially lost all four – and here are a couple of examples:
1. Freedom. Big tech in synergy with MSM / Deep State is silencing discussions that go against the leftist agenda. And the current fraudulent administration also wants to take guns away from average law-abiding citizens due to “gun violence”.
2. Capitalism. Shutting down US energy companies’ ability to produce more domestic oil and gas. Overall increased dependence upon government.
3. The legal system in the United States has become increasingly corrupt. Partisan prosecution is now becoming the norm. Very frightening.
4. Proper moral code. Family breakdown, sexual deviation, etc.
gravenimage says
Re #3, putting the appalling Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court is certainly exhibit number one.
James Lincoln says
+1
somehistory says
If she is so against freedom of speech, why is she using hers so “freely”? “fools rush in where wise men never go” she is a fool and has no idea how stupid are her statements.
OT:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/head-of-russia-s-orthodox-church-calls-on-people-to-rally-around-authorities/ar-
“(Reuters) – The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church called on people on Sunday to rally around the authorities as Moscow pursues its military intervention in Ukraine.
Patriarch Kirill has previously made statements defending Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and views the war as a bulwark against a Western liberal culture that he considers decadent.
“Let the Lord help us unite during this difficult time for our Fatherland, including around the authorities,” the Interfax news agency quoted Kirill, 75, as saying at a sermon in Moscow.
“May the authorities to be filled with responsibility for their people, humility and the readiness to serve them even if it costs them their life,” added the patriarch, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin.”
He’s a fool too, this guy with a big title, krill. He could learn something from another who made the news this week.
The last living prosecutor of the Nuremburg Trials has, just this week made statements against the war, saying that mankind has not learned the lessons. He is 102 years old, and lives in Fl, just received a medal from Gov De Santis.
gravenimage says
Patriarch Kirill is appalling. He has also lauded *Islam* as a bulwark against the freedoms of the West.
Andrew Blackadder says
She said free speech is just a way for racists to use racist words to appear…
Im offended and want her cancelled, fired,be gone,no more, she will not be allowed to speak another word about anything every again because her words offended me…. Let her feed on THAT for a while…