Swimming With Sharks

Here is a MUST READ discussion about the Twitter files from CJ Hopkins. It all boils down to this:

And, so, in light of that little quandary, here is a proposal for Elon Musk. Maybe Matt, or Bari Weiss, or one of my “high-profile” right-wing readers can pass it on to him. You don’t have to tell him where it came from. It’s pretty simple. Here it is:

Share the Covid-narrative-censorship Twitter files with journalists who want to tell that story. Let Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss keep telling the story they are telling, which, make no mistake, is of historic importance (and is ultimately a part of the larger story that the Covid-narrative censorship is also part of), but share the files with other journalists who don’t have as much to lose, or who are willing to lose it to report the story, or who have already lost it and so don’t give a shit. If you actually meant “Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” then how about a little Vox Populi, Elon?

If Elon Musk is serious about coming clean, and defending freedom of speech, and all that stuff, and not just whitewashing the company he just bought, and orchestrating an elaborate limited hangout, he can prove it by offering the Covid-narrative-censorship Twitter files to a few other journalists … journalists who want to report that story, who want to report that story right now, not two years from now, when no one cares anymore.

You can and should read the rest @

https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/13/swimming-with-sharks/

I think CJ is alluding to what happened to previous such releases (e.g., by The Intercept and others in the Assange-Snowden era). Instead of letting the public see all the raw data and decide for themselves, they seem to have cherry picked what to publish and then hid the rest away.

That is NOT what we need. We need something like Wikileaks again, an organization which publishes everything and doesn't just act as another censor of the already censored material.

But as I suggested yesterday, it appears Musk may never do that. He's been losing money fast and may care about that more than any obligation to tell the truth. And perhaps neither will his chosen helpers.

A crying shame, it is.