Leftists on Twitter expressed anger at Elon Musk and accused him of “amplifying harmful far right voices” after the new owner promised to take action to better protect children on the platform against sexual predators.
Yes, really.
Cracking down on pedos is apparently a bad thing.
Musk made the comment after the French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted, in English, that “We need to better protect our children on social networks and the Internet!”
Macron followed up the initial tweet with a second more detailed post:
To protect our children on the Internet, we need to better verify user age, better detect and stop sexual predators, and better identify and address bullying. We need to be more efficient in taking down content.
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 10, 2022
Macron then noted that other social media and tech platforms have signed up to a French led scheme titled the Children Online Protection Lab.
The French premier then directly tagged Elon Musk to ask him if Twitter will “protect our children”:
Alongside our partners, today we are launching the Children Online Protection Lab.
France, Estonia, New Zealand, Amazon, Dailymotion, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Snap, TikTok and Qwant have signed up. All those who are willing should join us!
— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 10, 2022
Absolument
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022
Journalist Ian Miles Cheong then chimed in to suggest that Twitter should expand its Child sexual exploitation unit, and Musk vowed to “take action”
If there's one part of Twitter's moderation team that could be expanded, it's the CSE unit. Actions taken must be decisive and have the immediate involvement of federal law enforcement. Some other platforms (particularly Instagram) have been really poor in this regard.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 11, 2022
Some leftists were appalled that Musk would even respond to Miles Cheong, because they disagree with some of his political opinions.
Lol imagine discussing the future of your $44bn platform with Ian Miles Cheong 😂
— Jules✌️ (@redmenace000) November 11, 2022
Of course, this makes him and Musk by extension ‘far right’:
Who knew that opposing child grooming and stopping sexual predation was a far right position? https://t.co/sJKr0qf1pb
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 11, 2022
Very sus, could be hiding the fact that he’s a pedo
— WeirdNerd (@xIronman777) November 11, 2022
I have been working on right wing child protection for 30 years. Way before I knew it was “right wing”. Grooming isn’t a new term or new to predator behavior, it’s how they desensitize a child to remain silent before & during abuse.
— Debbie (@oldyfab) November 11, 2022
We have previously covered the disturbing movement on the left to tolerate pedophilia and categorise it as some sort of sexual identity along with the likes of ‘queer,’ ‘pansexual’ and ‘intersex’.
Before Musk was in charge of Twitter, the platform’s moderation team seemed intent on locking the accounts of those who suggested pedophilia is bad.
As we highlighted earlier this week, Musk has received vitriol on Twitter from leftists who are angry that fact checks are now being applied to the likes of Joe Biden and The White House’s accounts.
Musk has also triggered many on the left for introducing a subscription fee for verification, and vowing to more strictly enforce existing rules on impersonation and intent to deceive on the platform.
**By Steve Watson
**Source