Help counter Elon Musk's fascist censorship machine
Update 2: I have deleted the original post as it was brigaded by fascist far right Musk fanboys so the censorship note kept being added to it. But I will re-post it again at a later point, and keep doing so until it’s there without a censorship note, because fuck them.
Update: It appears the note has disappeared for now, but if it does pop back up please do rate it as unhelpful to make sure it’s gone again. Thank you!
I go into more detail on the case below, but just want to add here at the beginning the request to please go to the post of mine that was censored by a Musk bro cretin repeating police lies and rate it as unhelpful to get it removed.
I’ve written in some detail about how the Community Notes feature Elon Musk proudly announced is the most odious censorship mechanism ever created on any social media platform. Under the guise of impartiality, objectivity, and “community control”, Musk has enabled any group of partisans on any issue, and typically it’s right-wing cretins of various stripes, to censor whatever post they don’t like by slapping a huge “correction” to it. They have used it against sitting members of Congress who dare criticize the genocidal Israeli apartheid regime, as detailed here, as well as Lula over his move to end the hostile relationship with Venezuela as I discussed here. Here I go over why the defense of it as being “impartial” is incoherent and absurd, and always redounds to reaffirming the mainstream, status quo position.
And now that has been proven with one of my own posts. Yesterday I posted a headline about an 11-year old boy who was arrested for refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance. Here again is the post.
As noted later in the thread, the boy who was arrested is black, and the teacher, per her own statement, berated him in a racist manner, telling him to go back to where he came from and talking about how she’s from Cuba (of course it’s a gusano) and if she didn’t feel welcome where she was she would move.
Now the crucial part of her statement is that after this racist berating of the 11-year old boy for refusing to stand for the pledge of allegiance, the teacher then reported him to the administration because she didn’t want to deal with him anymore, and then the police got involved and arrested the 11-year old.
Now the police then defended their actions by saying that they had to arrest the 11-year old boy because he was “disruptive” and “refused to comply”. I repeat: according to the police they had to arrest an 11-year old boy for being “disruptive” after being reported by a teacher who berated him with racist garbage over not standing for the pledge of allegiance. I keep repeating that it’s an 11-year old just to show how absurd the situation is.
Now of course the boy and the mother, backed up by the ACLU and their lawyer, contest the police claims about what happened, which incidentally and crucially also contradicts the statement of the teacher, who did not mention anything about the 11-year old being disruptive, but did talk about how she berated him with racist diatribes for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. Incidentally, this was also against the school’s own policy, which allows students not to stand for the pledge of allegiance, as they are required to by law since the Supreme Court ruled this way in 1943.
So if anyone should have been arrested for breaking the law, it was the gusano teacher, not the 11-year old boy.
The contestation of the police claim is included in the article whose headline I posted as well as in a New York Times piece on the subject. Moreover, the police has a long history of lying to cover up its depraved, racist actions, and as noted in the NYT piece the prosecutor quietly closed the case.
But the cretin who added the Community Note censorship to my post, who of course is a fan of Elon Musk and Trump and goes around adding these censorship notes to any posts that are mean to his daddies, simply repeats the police line about the boy’s arrest being justified given his “disruptive behavior”. Whenever the police, the FBI, the State Department, the CIA, whatever bullshit fake NGO group funded by the CIA via its NED cutout say something, that’s fact. Simply repeating it is like repeating a fact. If you disagree with it or contest it, you’re the conspiracy theorist crank liar, because of course the police and FBI and CIA never lie.
That’s how these fascists operate, and Elon Musk has just handed him the most odious, expansive censorship mechanism that has ever been created on any social media platform.
I will keep calling attention to this, and I have been compiling all the censorship “Notes” that I come across for that purpose. But for now if you can go to my post and rate the note as unhelpful to get it removed that would be greatly appreciated.