The US State Department just gave UATX prof Michael Shellenberger —who falsely claimed the FBI paid twitter to censor, falsely claimed 20 million tweets were censored by SIO, and falsely said that OCCRP was behind the Trump impeachment (and never issued corrections) —an exclusive. Regime mouthpiece. - ThreadSky

noupside.bsky.social • 5 days ago

The US State Department just gave UATX prof Michael Shellenberger —who falsely claimed the FBI paid twitter to censor, falsely claimed 20 million tweets were censored by SIO, and falsely said that OCCRP was behind the Trump impeachment (and never issued corrections) —an exclusive. Regime mouthpiece.

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nparikh.org•5 days ago

Who is he even referring to here? People like the Modi admin official who went after Twitter? Just seems strange. This is about visas for *officials*?

quispme.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s my interpretation - that it’s targeted at government officials.

nparikh.org•5 days ago

I mean this must be like a couple dozen people total, they could just deal with that one on one if it even made sense

cheers464646.bsky.social•5 days ago

So they will be denying Saudis Turkish and other diplomats entry?

calamityjim.bsky.social•5 days ago

We have to face it that being honest and correct has NO VALUE in our government.

None. It's hard to get your brain to process that, but it's the central fact of our time.

dachte.bsky.social•5 days ago

Disturbing how many of the worst people in our society are being elevated by Trump's administration.

Hoggrim.tiggi.es.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

@noupside.bsky.social I'm sure they feel bad they don't have to come jump into the dumpster fire

leupp.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s all about elon

bkelsey91.bsky.social•5 days ago

Deny visas for "immediate family of censorship officials".

And Michael is cool with that?

sigmanerd.bsky.social•5 days ago

I only knew Shellenberger for having braindead takes on climate change that were just factually wrong, I didn't realize his grift extended to so many subject areas.

btswanfury.bsky.social•5 days ago

Didn't Little Marco try deporting a bunch of people who were exercising their freedom of speech? Deplorable.

jpdink.bsky.social•5 days ago

Makes me wonder if anyone has gone back in time and vetted the topics on his college essays and thesis.

hypoautonomic.bsky.social•5 days ago

Recent Decoding the Gurus episode featured Shellenberger and JP and boy, howdy, are they MAGA boys.

jos1463.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s a perfect little propagandist so eminently qualified for the role

noupside.bsky.social•5 days ago

Holy shit look at the kicker. This is how the University of Austin CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech describes Trump’s EO targeting Chris Krebs - who was targeted not for “”demanding censorship”” but bc he “falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen”

notimeforbs.bsky.social•5 days ago

Musk has complied with, iirc, 88% of censorship requests from governments deemed non-democratic. Never ending hypocrisy.

jpmcjefferson.bsky.social•5 days ago

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