Is Everything "Literally Hitler" Again?
As the left takes on censorship issues from a formerly beloved, pRiVaTe cOmPaNy, will we see a change in the attitudes of the privileged mob spurring cancel culture?
Today in social media, I was confronted with multiple posts on the Twitter service suspension of leftist comic, Kathy Griffin.
Ironically, Griffin found a loophole to her suspension, not by creating a sock account like normal people, but by using her deceased mother’s account in order to fight back at “Evil Elon” by calling him an “asshole” and a “hack.” This is the first time Griffin used her mother’s account since her mother passed away, to bicker and call names. What a tribute!
To me, this seems the perfect metaphor for the political left as of late, having spent the past year or two propping up Weekend at Biden’s to speak ill of and even threaten anyone who disagrees with the angry, privileged, cancel collective.
However, the group once immune to community standards violations which seemed squarely directed at anyone right of Drag Queen Story Hour are now facing their own possible suspensions on Twitter. That’s kind of a big deal.
To add insult to injury, the popular social media network is now charging a price for their identity verification service, which gives the impression that Twitter intends to operate as a private company, with an air of objectivity toward paying customers of any political affiliation or celebrity status.
This has the entirety of the political left in an uproar for some reason. I suspect it has something to do with having an elite, advantaged club that they were happy to keep the serfs out of. I don’t, though, see anyone I know paying for the service of verification as most of us prefer operating our semi-anonymous, sock accounts on the major platforms who have long since deactivated our initial primary accounts at whim or leisure based upon loose interpretations of alleged violation against outrageously lopsided, community standards guidelines.
What I do wonder is how objectivity in the leveling of community standard guidelines might start to feel to those who have long been the benefactors of an unfair advantage with regard to suspensions and deactivation across the board on all major platforms.