Censorship: Twitter Takeover Totally Panics Political Regime of LeftLibDemSocMediaTechPol

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue May 17 22:42:39 PDT 2022


"Twitter Does Not Believe In Free Speech": Senior Engineer On Hidden
Cam Says Company Is "Commie As Fuck"

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-talks-elon-musk-takeover-in-new-undercover-video/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/twitter_does_not_believe_in_free_speech.html

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/

A senior Twitter engineer caught on hidden camera in another Project
Veritas operation confirmed that the whole company is "commie as
fuck," and "does not believe in free speech."

Siru Murugesan also told the undercover journalist that Elon Musk's
intended purchase of the company has caused employees to start
"stress-eating" and become "worried for our jobs."

"Our jobs are at stake; he's a capitalist and we weren't really
operating as capitalists, more like very socialist," he said, adding
"we're all like commie as fuck."

As the American Thinker's Andrea Widburg notes:

    Murugesan is an interesting man because he concedes two important
things: (1) working at Twitter has turned him into a leftist because
that’s the mindset of the entire company and (2) he’s beginning to
think Elon Musk is making sense when he says that free speech is
important. Murugesan’s open-mindedness may flow from the fact that
he’s been experiencing some cognitive dissonance.

    According to Murugesan, it’s unquestionable that “Twitter does not
believe in free speech.” However, he hasn’t quite grasped that this
hostility to free speech is about power and control. Instead,
Murugesan attributes it to Twitter’s (and Facebook’s and Instagram’s)
unwillingness to allow “bullying and harassment” on the site. As he
understands it, free speech is all about preventing “bullying and
harassment.”

According to Murugesan, Twitter employees did all they could to
"revolt against" Musk's takeover.

"We did all we could to like revolt against it. A lot of employees
were revolting against it, but at the end of the day, the board of
directors have the say," he said, adding that he thought the board "…
acted on their best interests ‘cause they didn't want to get sued….
they’re always looking out for themselves at the end of the day."

Watch:

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More via American Thinker:

Murugesan goes on to note that he realizes that something is wrong here:

    Ideologically, it does not make sense like, because we’re actually
censoring the right and not the left. So, everyone on the right wing
will be like, “Bro, it’s okay to say it; just gotta tolerate it.” The
left will be like, “No, I’m not gonna tolerate it. I need it censored
or else I’m not gonna be on the platform.” So, it does that on [to]
the right. It’s true. There is bias. It is what it is today.

In other words, conservatives are willing to engage in the give and
take of an open society with free speech. Leftists, however, hate that
and will shut it down for everyone.

Another interesting insight Murugesan offers into the Twitter
environment is that it’s not run in a businesslike fashion. He’s been
working four hours a week for some time and is bestirring himself to
work more only because a promotion will net him a big salary increase,
a necessary thing because inflation is affecting him. Murugesan notes
that other colleagues have absented themselves for months because they
needed mental health breaks.

Murugesan describes this disinterest in the bottom line as part of
Twitter’s socialist, even communist, ethos. This disinterest in the
bottom line may also lend credence to a theory that Sundance, at The
Conservative Treehouse, has raised in the past: Twitter’s model is not
set up to make a profit, leading him to believe that it’s actually
being sponsored by the United States government.

Again, the Project Veritas video doesn’t tell us anything we haven’t
already figured out on our own. Nevertheless, it’s still enormously
satisfying to have our suspicions and conclusions confirmed. And it
certainly makes me hope that Elon Musk has only paused his takeover,
rather than abandoning it. Twitter, and America, need more free
speech; not less.


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