Careercow Ben Collins / Benjamin Thomas Collins / @oneunderscore__ - Journo Scum

[Foghorns at a Funeral]

Ben is a barnacle on the asshole of life. He can no longer do backroom talks to get the people he hates banned from life. My sides will enter space if he dares do the free speech dance after all of his bullshit. They will speak of sticking to your principles, while covering their brused ego and prepping the knife they will use on you when they are done with you. So spare us the cries of fairness. I have 0 fucks to give Ben.

 

[Leave_Fargut]

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Max Tani

Newsrooms are scrambling to counter Elon Musk's bans​

Dec 16, 2022, 4:51pm UTC

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David Dee Delgado/Reuters
News organizations are scrambling to respond to Elon Musk’s suspension from Twitter of prominent journalists whose coverage he objected to.
On Thursday, Twitter suspended CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, as well as liberal commentator Keith Olbermann and reporters from Mashable and the Intercept.
News organizations are now considering a range of options to respond, people familiar with their conversations said. They range from pulling coverage from Twitter, as CBS News did briefly in November, to retaliating against Twitter’s advertising business: CNN executives have discussed whether their corporate parent, Warner Media Discovery, would stop its advertising on the platform.
News organizations have also discussed dropping out of the Amplify program, in which they post videos to twitter and share in the revenue, or simply asking their staffers to stop contributing to the service.
NBC News, meanwhile, has responded by suspending one of its journalists who has reported on Twitter and been harshly critical of Musk. NBC News temporarily suspended tech reporter Ben Collins from NBC and MSNBC airwaves. According to two sources, the network told Collins that his criticism of Musk, which included mocking Musk’s ignorance about the company’s general counsel, was not editorially appropriate. Collins continued to tweet his reporting about Twitter last night about the social network’s ban of journalists.
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The New York Times released a statement Thursday evening calling the move “questionable and unfortunate,” and called for the tech company to offer an explanation about the suspension. Privately on Friday, the paper’s leadership asked staff not to fight with Musk on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the news organizations aren’t sure whom to call to mediate the conflict. A CNN staffer told Semafor that network executives scrambled last night to reach Twitter after O’Sullivan was suspended, but almost all of the network’s previous contacts at the company had been fired or resigned.
Musk said that some received a 7-day suspension for "doxxing" him by sharing publicly available information about his private plane, though many of those suspended had simply covered the story about his ban on an account that followed the jet.

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Newsroom leaders have long had an ambivalent relationship with Twitter, even as it was embraced by working journalists. Now some journalists feel they have a professional responsibility to get the news out on the platform, even as their higher-ups look for ways to shift the relationship.

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Imagine being such a spaz that even your NBC/MSNBC adult daycare is too embarrassed to be associated with you. lmao.

Ah, when journalists get people's addresses and locations using publicly available information its just that, "using publicly available information". When we do the same thing it's "tapping into the nazi hacker darkweb to acquire illegal personal details". Fucking hate journos so much

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

They all deserved to be banned and suspended because it's obvious for anyone with half a brain that the things they're "reporting" is not real reporting at all: it's all meanness and spite caused by their dislike of Elon Musk.

Journos are dumb, entitled people who believe rules don't apply to them (but rules definitely do apply to you, bigot )

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

Actually, they can supposedly stop funding to his website through "activist groups." Did he ever name those groups, actually? I'm wondering.


That's fair and definitely right, I've seen far too many stories of random journos trying to ruin peoples' lives, often for little to no reason (any remember Scott Alexander and NYT?)

For Elon's case specifically, though, the flight data is public and can be viewed by anyone on OpenSky. You could argue that it's giving away his location when he lands and that places him in real harm, but he's a billionaire and he'd be stupid not to have security detail, especially in public places like airports.

Their "activist groups" are their discord buddies that made a statement in not paying for the checkmark and got s few reactions to it.....that's it.

 

[Corbax]

Fucking amazing. I'd love to reach back in time to October when everyone was doompilled and miserable and tell them what's coming.

This year has been quite the rollercoaster. Thank god for Null's sheer sneedacity for getting us through the rough patches.

 

[Oscar Winner]

Fucking amazing. I'd love to reach back in time to October when everyone was doompilled and miserable and tell them what's coming.

To be fair, we know there's a fine line. Depending on “who's who”, KF will be on the “wrong” side of it.
The sad truth is this site is a privilege, not a right. It should be the other way around, but it's not.
Sometimes concerns are valid.

 

[Quintus]

You reap what you sow Ben. You fucking lying faggot.

 

[Molag Bal]

First off, I want to express my approval of this development. Ben Collins is a piece of shit yellow journalist and no amount of misfortune is too much for him. He deserves to die in a ditch, along with all of his family.

Then

A CNN staffer told Semafor that network executives scrambled last night to reach Twitter after O’Sullivan was suspended, but almost all of the network’s previous contacts at the company had been fired or resigned.

So let me get this straight. Twitter had people from those news companies in its staff and the moment Musk removed them, suddenly journalists are getting banned left and right? If so, great. I hope it happens more. In the same vein, the second thing: I want to remind you that the most effective way of showing a censorious person the value of free speech, is to censor them. Ban them for what they say, scrub opinions they agree with from public platforms, and just watch how quickly they will flip to arguing that people should be allowed to say what they think. The whole reason why they defend censorship is because they are convinced that it can never happen to them. Once it actually does happen to them, their tune changes drastically. Censorious people SHOULD be censored. You may not like it, but you know it is true.

I also want to caution people to not think that this means that NBC disapproves of what Ben Collins said, they 100% back everything he says and does. This move is entirely rooted in pragmatism. They don't want their journos getting repeat suspended or worse yet, perma-suspended so they decide to reel in a few of the more unhinged ones before they go and do something crazy enough to get their entire agency booted off social media.

No single person whose sources are "some cunt on Twitter" should be allowed to call themself a journalist, end of. It's crazy how deep that profession has tanked its reputation in the last decade. In my country it used to be in the top 3 of hardest degrees to get, now even previously renowned papers and institutions are reporting on the same level as the National Enquirer. Beyond ridiculous.

They have always been callous and dishonest, the only difference is now that people scrutinize them by cross-referencing information via the internet.

 

[Abraham Ortelius]

Ben has been temporarily suspended from NBC/MSNBC for inaccurate/biased reporting.

https://archive.ph/SW4Zi

I don't care about Elon at all but I'm glad to see someone actually show people like him that you can't just fire off these angry tweets and expect to be taken seriously as a journalist.

well deserved.

 

[Wesley Willis]

Don’t boast about your cowtipping, particularly on a thread like this dude

I said many pages back that I would remind Ben of his payment to Keffals, and not a single soul had an issue with it.

 

[wagglyplacebo]

All our opps get bopped.

 

[ObservingTheMadness]

Well, looks like karma made him pay up!

 

[PointOfNoReturnPoint]

That would be the alleged troon one.

Really now....

 

[Thumb Butler]

10 bucks says he was outed a pedophile.

If only he were British, he would be promoted.

 

[Shroom King]

10 bucks says he was outed a pedophile.

Just a cursory search of this guy reveals the following:

Simps for insane trannies.
Hates white people who own guns (proof: https://archive.ph/HvzQ8)
Tardrages when twitter will no longer deep-throat putrid globohomo cock.
Can't sit down without looking like a massive fruitbag.

Even if he isn't a nonce, do you really want him near anyone's kids?

 

[Evilronald]

Spoiler: Article Copypaste

Max Tani

Newsrooms are scrambling to counter Elon Musk's bans​

Dec 16, 2022, 4:51pm UTC

View attachment 4088499THE SCOOP
David Dee Delgado/Reuters
News organizations are scrambling to respond to Elon Musk’s suspension from Twitter of prominent journalists whose coverage he objected to.
On Thursday, Twitter suspended CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the New York Times’ Ryan Mac, and the Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, as well as liberal commentator Keith Olbermann and reporters from Mashable and the Intercept.
News organizations are now considering a range of options to respond, people familiar with their conversations said. They range from pulling coverage from Twitter, as CBS News did briefly in November, to retaliating against Twitter’s advertising business: CNN executives have discussed whether their corporate parent, Warner Media Discovery, would stop its advertising on the platform.
News organizations have also discussed dropping out of the Amplify program, in which they post videos to twitter and share in the revenue, or simply asking their staffers to stop contributing to the service.
NBC News, meanwhile, has responded by suspending one of its journalists who has reported on Twitter and been harshly critical of Musk. NBC News temporarily suspended tech reporter Ben Collins from NBC and MSNBC airwaves. According to two sources, the network told Collins that his criticism of Musk, which included mocking Musk’s ignorance about the company’s general counsel, was not editorially appropriate. Collins continued to tweet his reporting about Twitter last night about the social network’s ban of journalists.
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The New York Times released a statement Thursday evening calling the move “questionable and unfortunate,” and called for the tech company to offer an explanation about the suspension. Privately on Friday, the paper’s leadership asked staff not to fight with Musk on Twitter.
Meanwhile, the news organizations aren’t sure whom to call to mediate the conflict. A CNN staffer told Semafor that network executives scrambled last night to reach Twitter after O’Sullivan was suspended, but almost all of the network’s previous contacts at the company had been fired or resigned.
Musk said that some received a 7-day suspension for "doxxing" him by sharing publicly available information about his private plane, though many of those suspended had simply covered the story about his ban on an account that followed the jet.

View attachment 4088505MAX'S VIEW
Newsroom leaders have long had an ambivalent relationship with Twitter, even as it was embraced by working journalists. Now some journalists feel they have a professional responsibility to get the news out on the platform, even as their higher-ups look for ways to shift the relationship.

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Imagine being such a spaz that even your NBC/MSNBC adult daycare is too embarrassed to be associated with you. lmao.

It’s just a suspension, they’ll put him in paid time-out until the heat dies down and their CIA paymasters designate a new target.

 

[Falcon Sebben]

Honestly, I think a lot of folks who continue to criticize Elon for not being a "Free Speech" Absolutist really need to keep this in mind.

The fact that Twatter wasn't a bastion of free speech before hand shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. But then back then it was "their" speech that tended not to be silenced. And even then it was only the really hateful and radical stuff on the far-right that was silenced like COVID misinformation or people planning on taking down the government. You know, minor stuff.

Now because it's liberal voices that are being silenced the whole dynamic has been turned on it's head and strangely enough the people who crowed the loudest are now complaining the loudest. It's almost as if these people have always been miserable assholes and were only happy when they weren't the ones being silenced.

 

[Yaks]

I find it funny that everyone lost their mind over a short temporary suspension.

Welcome to social media jail, home of the mouth breathers and lowbrow offensive meme posters.

 

[Netizennameless]

I am a bit late to this but this is a hypocritical take. Cow threads compile personal information on people they don't like all the time and I would say a good majority of them aren't committing any crimes, unless you count being dumb on the internet as a crime. Granted, there is a difference between compiling that information and using that information to harass them, but the ElonJet guy wasn't showing up to Elon's private plane personally, he was just making public information from the FAA more accessible.

It's also notable because Mr. Free Speech Absolutist seems to only like free speech when it says nice things about him, but I am sure that has been talked about to death on this website.

Anyways, on Ben Collins; I am happy with his suspension. MSM journalists for a while now seem to have gotten the idea that they can use their clout to bully and push around people they don't like. Nice to see them knocked down a peg, for once--even if it's only because his employer wants to cover their asses.

Fair enough - and I'm on the side of public information being fair game. Elon is being a petty bitch. It's just allowing us some amusement by being (mostly) aimed at losers who would absolutely string others up for the same "crime" of "doxing".

I disagree. Elon Musk has enemies that want him dead. Both Russians and Ukranians are pissed at him over starlink in Ukraine. The liberal media is publicly baying for his blood, calling him a far-right white supremacist and likening him to Trump. This is not some hysterical shut-in freaking out about things that have no chance of happening. There is a greater than 0 chance that he could be assassinated, and when it's easy to find where he is going to be more people are going to consider acting on their desires.

On that note, PnB Rock is a textbook example of exactly what Elon Musk is concerned about.

Instagram post of rapper PnB Rock at Roscoe's may have led to killing, LAPD chief says

The Philadelphia hip-hop artist, 30, was targeted for his jewelry while he was eating at the South L.A. restaurant, police said.

www.latimes.com

Instagram post of PnB Rock may have led to killing, LAPD says - Los A…

archived 16 Sep 2022 12:58:34 UTC

archive.vn

TL;DR he was murdered in a restaurant in Los Angeles (where did Elon's kid get accosted again?) and robbed of his jewelry, and the killers found him because his location was tagged in a post on instagram.

“Musk said that some received a 7-day suspension for "doxxing" him by sharing publicly available information about his private plane,”
So posting publicly available information isn’t dox now? Now that it’s convenient? It’s so tiresome.

The ban on doxxing has existed at twitter for years before musk bought the company. Having some crazy accost your children will shake most people, and it made elon re-evaluate his priorities. It's not being a petty bitch to enforce the rules evenly for everyone. but when you have special treatment, equality is going to feel like a step down.

Oh no, I agree as regards to getting the laffs over Ben. He’s rightfully getting his just desserts and it’s great. But when Musk leverages TOS that evolves on how catty he’s feeling that day, that’s not only hypocritical, but damages his reputation among a crowd that actually likes or admires him. There’s a lot of Elon fans in the aviation community (a big free speech camp, may I add) that are definitely disillusioned with him now.

Never trust anyone is the lesson here.

I think that people have lost touch with reality. Elon Musk's twitter shenanigans have nothing to do with his abilities as an aviator, a rocketeer or a carmaker. Separate people's politics from their work.

this is giving me the same vibe as parents who only just started to discipline their kid's bullying in school after columbine happened

better late than never

No single person whose sources are "some cunt on Twitter" should be allowed to call themself a journalist, end of. It's crazy how deep that profession has tanked its reputation in the last decade. In my country it used to be in the top 3 of hardest degrees to get, now even previously renowned papers and institutions are reporting on the same level as the National Enquirer. Beyond ridiculous.

Journalism has always been trash. We just make the mistake of collating the few journalistic names we remember from history and forgetting all the trash that was lost to history. It reminds me of this:

The Famously Mistaken Headline: Dewey Defeats Truman

This is the story behind the wrong newspaper headline about the 1948 U.S. Presidential election, including Harry Truman's presidency and his campaign.

www.thoughtco.com

 

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How professional. Anyways instead of making an announcement about it like most normal people do, he decides to pull this? You can tell how badly he's taking the news.