by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:
The far-left Guardian has published three articles since August 12 calling for the arrest of X owner Elon Musk because he permits free speech on the social media platform.
The most prominent anti-free speech leftist to appear was former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich.
Another piece linked Musk to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was arrested in Paris on charges that the platform permits users to trade child pornography.
And ex-Twitter executive Bruce Daisley called for the arrest of Musk because he permits content that violates British law.
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
Reich is such a sweety https://t.co/qZPwP5RYr5
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 1, 2024
Reich Unhinged
Reich’s 1,100-word rant appeared Saturday, and hysterically warned that Musk is “out of control.” Musk, he wrote, “is rapidly transforming his enormous wealth … into a huge source of unaccountable political power that’s now backing Trump and other authoritarians around the world.”
Reich fumed that Musk endorsed former President Donald Trump for president, helped form a Super PAC, and permitted the GOP presidential nominee’s return to the platform. The leftists who ran Twitter before Musk purchased it removed Trump because of the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. They complained that Trump’s posts would incite violence.
Reich also fretted that Musk is soliciting votes for Trump and even hired a Republican to help.
To falsely claim that the two would be “governing together if Trump wins a second term,” Reich observed that Musk told Trump he would “help out on [a government efficiency] commission.”
Something called the Center for Countering Digital Hate accuses Musk of posting 50 false election claims on X this year.
“Musk is supporting rightwing causes around the world,” he wrote, and is to blame for the “far-right thugs” who “burned, looted and terrorized minority communities” in England because “misinformation” spread on X about the stabbing of three school girls in June. “Musk not only allowed instigators of this hate to spread these lies, but he retweeted and supported them,” Reich wrote.
The former Clinton hireling is particularly exercised that Musk has rightly “prophesied a future civil war related to immigration. When anti-immigration street riots occurred across Britain, he wrote: ‘civil war is inevitable.’”
And so on and so forth.
Thus does Reich expect consumers and advertisers to boycott X and Tesla. But that’s not enough.
“Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X,” while the Federal Trade Commission should police Musk and sue him if he doesn’t “take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals.”
“Musk’s free-speech rights under the first amendment don’t take precedence over the public interest,” Reich wrote.
“Elon-alike” Arrested
The following day, The Guardian zeroed Musk again. A scribette called Carole Cadwalladr is tickled that French cops collared Durov, and clearly said that Musk should be next.
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