The continued adventures of Len Mukos, free speech champeen
This week: Len Mukos makes it clear that you can post anything you want on his social media platform. So long as you’re a noisy right wing vomit bag. He’ll even lie to cover for you.
In what seems like a bid to make the site formerly known Twitter* as unappealing to the Left as humanly possible, Elon Musk has made the decision to unban conspiracy nut Dominick McGee (AKA “Dom Lucre”) after he was kicked off the site earlier this week for sharing incredibly disturbing Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) that no normal human being should even know how to access.
That’s a point that needs emphasis. Why the fuck did McGee have that shit in the first place? I hope he gets a chance to shout about his free speech rights at some investigators in the near future.
“I’m told that this account was suspended for posting child exploitation pictures associated with the criminal conviction of an Australian man in the Philippines,” Musk tweeted initially. However, following pressure from McGee’s supporters, claiming that he was being banned for his criticism of Democrats — something one imagines could be accomplished without a picture of an infant being tortured — he reinstated the account and lied about who had seen the pictures.
“Only people on our CSE team have seen those pictures. For now, we will delete those posts and reinstate the account.”
The claim that members of the child sexual exploitation team (assuming there still is a team) were the only ones who saw the pictures is bullshit. The platform doesn’t scan each Tweet for illegal content before it is posted. At least one user had to see it and report it. In this case, considerably more than one person saw it before someone at Twit Central Station yanked the account.
And yet, screenshots show that over 3 million people saw the image.
Nearly 10,000 users also spread the images. According to Twitter’s policy on CSE (last updated in October 2020), Twitter should have at least suspended the accounts of those headasses. But that would require a functional CSE team that was allowed to operate without interference by a shambling duppy who claimed that no users saw the pictures.
McGee has shown his gratitude by calling Mukos a liar and insisting his name needs to be cleared. Time to get out the Root 4 Injuries pom-poms again.
Len isn’t just defending disgusting people’s right to free speech. He is also bravely defending disgusting people from speech that accurately represents their values values.
While Dominick McGee is free to go back to making money off of his Twitter presence despite sharing sexually explicit pictures of a child being abused, one thing was too much for Musk to take — a video ad criticizing Republicans for interfering in people’s sex lives.
The video, which we previously covered here on Wonkette, featured a couple on the verge of having sex and talking about getting a condom, only to be stopped by an elderly Republican gentleman telling them they can’t use one.
Not only has the ad been banned on the social media site, but the Progress Action Fund, which produced the ad, was put on a search and suggestion ban, meaning that you could not even look it up if you wanted to. (It now has a Twitter-supplied warning over its profile suggesting that you back away from viewing its “sensitive content.”)
Whew. At least he’s protecting the only real victims.