A Simple Question From Elon Exposes the Hypocrisy of Twitter: ‘Why… A Platform Cannot Be Inclusive or Fair If It’s Bias’

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David Rufful
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The wildly popular social media account called “Libs of Tiktok” shares simple videos and other content that exposes left-wing radicals in the U.S.

As expected, this has infuriated liberals and led to a significant amount of threats and harassment targeting the woman behind the account — Taylor Lorenz.”

Despite Twitter’s community rules banning such behavior of threats and harassment, the platform apparently only protection based on its political preference. If you’re conservative, like Lorenz, it’s possible that you receive little to no protection.

Lorenz explained, “I have now received about a dozen death threats after radical leftists accused me of being a domestic terrorist extremist. Twitter has not removed any of the accounts of those who sent the threats.”

Musk responded by asking Twitter: “Why?”

“A platform cannot be considered inclusive or fair if it is biased against half the country,” Musk added. Take a look:

More on this story via RedState:

The woman who runs the account has now moved to another location after all the death threats. She complained to Twitter about the threats multiple times, but according to her, they hadn’t taken any action against any of the accounts. Not only hadn’t they addressed her concerns, as we reported, they allegedly were also talking about whether not to ban Libs of TikTok on their private channel…

How true that is, but that’s why the left doesn’t want Elon to take over Twitter because they know that he won’t stand for this and that would change their ability to use the platform to control the narrative.

But even though Elon hasn’t taken over yet, his comments appear to have affected Twitter’s response to Libs of TikTok. Suddenly, accounts about which she had complained suddenly were suspended after his remarks.

This is why he needs to take over Twitter, to change this not just for a big account that he can see, but for the whole platform.

Naturally, that caused the professional crank, the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz — who recently doxxed Libs of TikTok herself — to have a meltdown because Musk intervened.