At the moment Twitter can’t be searched. It’s probably related to more stuff Space Karen wants to hide. This is the latest saga.

it looks like Twitter just suspended the @BlockTheBlue account https://t.co/FfB8bpzfIg pic.twitter.com/PpldHwjIKp

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) April 21, 2023

Free speech?

Verified users of pre-takeover Twitter, who worked for years to build up a following, received a blue checkmark. Aaron Rupar was one.

Fake verified Klay Thompson responds to real unverified Charlie Sheen. An Elon Musk masterpiece. pic.twitter.com/nrrOqQ6RTc

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2023

The number of followers—Aaron has 800,000+—was a more obvious way to know they were real. The platform’s reputation and traffic were built on the back of their and others free content.

Apartheid Clyde didn’t like the attention others got for their content. He sold $8 monthly blue checkmarks to mimic real blue checks to his fanboy, KKK nutjobs. Why? Who knows—maybe to end the system of recognising the talent that made Twitter worth about half of the $44 billion he was forced to pay for it. Maybe, to destroy intelligent conversation calling for taxing the rich AKA what the emerald mine inheritor calls the “woke mind virus”.

I mean, a lot of times you'd get this patronizing "you just have some weird personal obsession" dismissal too, but yeah, mostly it was the confusion/constipation thing. https://t.co/xRWdTruhF1

— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) April 22, 2023

the starship explosion shows the press refuses to learn. Musk's bulbous ego and a rush to launch on a dumb weed joke date resulted in him nixing flame diverters, which damaged the launch pad and engines, all portrayed by the press as a smashing success:https://t.co/0HfBWY042r

— Karl Bode (@KarlBode) April 22, 2023

As a business genius he tried to force the real talent to pay. The real talent said no. The world knows who the real talent is.

.@elonmusk Jealous? pic.twitter.com/s8un3LzAUN

— Mike Schuster (@mcs212) April 22, 2023

They have built big fanbases through their content.

now it’s elitist to NOT have one. It’s all so beautiful, the spiral

— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) April 21, 2023

Me joining you all tomorrow unverified 🥰 https://t.co/ujDlcsV8aL pic.twitter.com/1p6Q0uRuj1

— Halle Berry (@halleberry) April 20, 2023

New blue checks have no real following.

The blue check became a symbol of white supremacist hate.

i give elon a lot of shit but the one thing i hope he succeeds in is taking away the legacy bluechecks because blocking twitter blue subscribers will be so much easier, won’t even have to think about it

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) April 20, 2023

That needs to be tackled and deplatformed.

Putting these at the top of every reply thread makes it easy, lol pic.twitter.com/FjNyee2mTU

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 22, 2023

Felon Musk tried to make old verification blue checks appear as his new blue checks as if they supported him. How? By paying for them.

My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. I haven’t.
My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven’t.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) April 20, 2023

This tweet from a "verified" account is false. It's been viewed 3.4 million times.

Musk gave LeBron a free subscription to Twitter Blue, @verge reports. LeBron was not lying.

Welcome to the new Twitter. https://t.co/t25qYbnXTZ

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 20, 2023

That "If" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

— Stevie Snow (@ChilliSnowman) April 22, 2023

Maybe people are starting to see through the fraud. The tweet about power below has 410 likes out of 17M views so far. Some of the replies seriously ratio the original for likes. There’s one with 300,000 views and 16,000 likes. It went up by another 1000 likes while I was reading all the “hell no” responses.

The platform may have been purchased to promote and fund ultra right-wing hate

Yet another reason to continue blocking all ads and blue checks.

— PineappleIsTheBestPizzaTopping🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@Hack3dPotato) June 10, 2023

Elon Musk is now responding to and pinning a tweet of his in response to white nationalist Andrew Torba. This guy is so famous for antisemitism, he has his own page documenting him at the ADL.

He is mainstreaming so much dangerous antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/sPBKTGvfTD

— Alejandra Caraballo 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 (@Esqueer_) June 10, 2023

but everyone hasn’t been fooled.

Ask any woman. She’d fuck Elon in a heartbeat. Why? His sheer power, not his looks.

— chloé (@bronzeageshawty) June 7, 2023

You are dead wrong and you’re projecting. Some of us have more respect for ourselves than that and wouldn’t have sex with a White Supremacist. Clearly, you have issues.

— evie ღ 🌻 (@eviebauer727) June 11, 2023

I'm a woman. You're wrong. I find the man repulsive. I have my own power. I don't need a small-minded, self-centered narcissist in my life.

— Tink53 (@LoveyTex) June 11, 2023

pic.twitter.com/Q3FtOXLAJV

— becourageous (@marinat71335762) June 11, 2023

I think Elon is an interesting one to mention here bc I’d argue that if anything he’s more an illustration of the limitation of this principle.

— Pigeon Feathers (Alpha Male) (@PigeonFeatherz) June 7, 2023

This is a better way.

— phbehnken🇺🇦 (@phbehnken) June 11, 2023

Just to be clear, you're saying you wouldn't? 😂

— Spotty Giraffe (@starfishpotato) June 11, 2023

Rather shave my head with a potato peeler

— Shut up Franc Fella (@NaberiaSw) June 10, 2023

I would rather scrub my boobies off with a rusty SOS pad

— Danielle Ryan 🐀 (@danirat) June 10, 2023

This is perfect 💕

— Lily_Padz (@Lily_Padz_) June 11, 2023

pic.twitter.com/eWSNjZu1If

— Shaun Ponsonby (@DukeStKing) June 11, 2023

Absolutely not. Not even if he was the last man on earth and I was horny enough to shag a cactus.

— thatbimum (@thatbimum) June 11, 2023

Ratio

Not even with someone else’s pussy

— calypsodreams (@itscalypsobitch) June 10, 2023

Perhaps it’s a stretch

LOL omg pic.twitter.com/jwBAMvhLMl

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 19, 2023

But there may be reason for hope.

Noteworthy pic.twitter.com/LdyDTj445C

— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) June 21, 2023

I can’t think of too many examples of post cult of Trump but that’s how this person describes herself. The insurrectionists wanted to claim her but…

Great thread and chart of all of the breaches and door entries.https://t.co/7o97EdLrGF

— Nefarious YooperSleuth (@SleuthYooper) June 23, 2023

I’m disappointed with you @RepMTG for not allowing J6er’s like myself share at your hearings; stop blaming the government! He had a choice as I did, he broke the law! CROWD ERUPTS as Greene DEBUNKS 'January' story after witness' proof...im... https://t.co/g8G4ZgNUsy via @YouTube

— Pam Hemphill (Left the Trump Cult) (@PamHemphill79) June 16, 2023

An unrelated but helpful realisation about how misinformation can go unchecked

In which I write, in cringe-making detail, about the biggest mistake of my career: Just Another RFK Jr. Lie. I Know, Because It’s About Me. https://t.co/PtKf2Qs78T

— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) June 22, 2023

And get amplified by bad-faith actors.

⁩Joe Rogan, Elon Musk Instigate Harassment Campaign Against Vaccine Scientist.

A Twitter-wide, very intentional freakout over Dr. Peter Hotez sharing a link to a Motherboard story.

by @annamerlanhttps://t.co/t9WjgrS0BX

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 23, 2023

He has lived his entire life doing the actual work *against* the interests of Big Pharma and watching people call him a stooge for Big Pharma is more than a little galling.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 23, 2023

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic candidate for the presidency, went on the Jordan B. Peterson podcast on June 5 and told a wild and false story about me from 2005 that I want to tell you about.”

⁦@jaketapper⁩ gets personal - & brings receipts: https://t.co/ctv65Prwrf

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) June 23, 2023

pic.twitter.com/KxCyMyPF6g

— ron 🗿🗿ナナ he/him. (@PureBatman111) June 22, 2023

UNBELIEVABLE! In @elonmusk @Twitter world open death threats, complete with displayed bullets, is permissible.
And the target? A man of Science who has dedicated his life to providing #vaccines -- including the only low-cost #COVID19 vax made specifically for poor countries. https://t.co/tR6Oi1Ia8Z

— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) June 20, 2023

“A third of all complaints about online hate reported to us are now happening on Twitter,” Australia’s @eSafetyOffice commissioner said.@tweetinjules cited @CCDHate's work on toxic Twitter in her legal warning to the company.

More in @Gizmodo 👇 https://t.co/NTYQkowVQV

— Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate) June 23, 2023

Musk had moved on to a bigger concern for him.

He doesn't actually think it's a slur, none of them do. They're just playing nonsense words games and trying to make excuses for why they want to silence minorities they hate https://t.co/da6Lj3xXaN

— Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) June 21, 2023

Free speech? The good news is there seems to be more people pointing out the musky pro-Putin reality with receipts.

His military expertise only exceeded by his grasp of epidemiology. pic.twitter.com/0Ue9vP7g98

— Peter Kaufman (@inklake) June 24, 2023

Hopefully he is losing the power to influence the world along with Murdoch. Who jumped to the top of the queue to get the vaccine?

He’s a potent danger to democracies across the world. Watch our film about Rupert Murdoch pic.twitter.com/7rlAlVaBGy

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) June 21, 2023