Curley: Donald Trump and Taylor Swift break the internet - Boston Herald

Between the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster debacle and erstwhile President Donald J. Trump returning to Twitter— it was a large week for intelligence breakdowns connected the internet.

If you request impervious that we person a occupation with position successful our society, look nary further than the videos of Swifties sobbing into their iPhone cameras oregon the absorption from CBS News implicit Orange antheral being backmost connected Twitter.

Let’s rewind a bit.

Earlier this week, quality broke that Elon Musk gave his employees astatine Twitter an ultimatum: enactment hard oregon get out.

According to consequent reports, hundreds of employees chose to caput for the exit signs.

In their defense, Elon’s latest “hardcore” ultimatum was conscionable 1 of galore incidents successful which the billionaire near his caller employees reeling.

The NY Post reported past week that helium was besides canceling escaped lunches astatine the company’s San Francisco headquarters. Quelle horreur!

“The billionaire said helium volition scrap the escaped meals served astatine Twitter’s office successful San Francisco due to the fact that it was costing the institution astir $400 per worker,” the Post wrote.

Democrat activistic Andrew Wortman expressed his outrage astatine this shocking development. “He fired 3⁄4 of the employees. Now he’s readying to starve the remainder of them. He’s nonaccomplishment incarnate,” helium tweeted.

And who tin hide the information that since Musk took implicit the company, helium has been hellhole bent connected getting Twitter staffers backmost into the office? His banning of distant enactment for employees (with definite exceptions) was not good received by the masses.

Then connected Friday, Musk did the unthinkable. He ran a canvass asking users whether Donald Trump should beryllium reinstated connected the platform. After implicit 15 cardinal users formed their votes—and the results were successful Trump’s favor— Musk brought backmost the 1 who shall not beryllium named.

It didn’t instrumentality agelong for the left’s virtuousness signaling to begin.

On Sunday, Fortune mag released an nonfiction titled, Ex-Twitter employees are horrified by Elon Musk reinstating Donald Trump’s account: ‘Incredibly upsetting.’

Good happening they are ex-employees then, right?

By the way, were immoderate of these ex-Twitter workers “horrified” erstwhile their erstwhile institution censored the NY Post for accurately reporting connected Hunter Biden’s laptop?

I person a feeling their performative outrage is reserved for peculiar occasions.

CBS News could not hold to get successful connected the unfolding drama.

The network’s nationalist correspondent, Jonathan Vigliotti, said connected Friday evening that, “In airy of the uncertainty astir Twitter and retired of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its enactment connected the societal media tract arsenic it continues to show the platform.”

The irony of CBS’ enactment of heroism is not mislaid connected anyone who has adjacent the slightest cognition of the network’s checkered past.

After all, nary 1 astatine CBS utilized an abundance of caution successful 2004 erstwhile “journalist” Dan Rather reported connected 4 “fake but accurate” documents that contained bogus allegations astir President George W. Bush’s work successful the Texas Air National Guard.

And who tin hide erstwhile Leslie Stahl dismissed Donald Trump’s concerns implicit Hunter Biden’s laptop during an interrogation successful October of 2020?

“You know, this is ’60 Minutes,’ and we can’t enactment connected things we can’t verify,” she told the erstwhile President. Trump should person asked Leslie if Dan Rather had been made alert of this institution policy.

Of people they could person verified the laptop but that would person required existent journalism, thing that the principled geniuses astatine CBS are not acquainted with.

In lawsuit CBS’ hypocrisy wasn’t evident enough—less than 48 hours later, the quality web returned to Twitter.

I suggest that CBS, retired of an abundance of caution, uphold their extremity of the woody and enactment distant from the societal media platform. It is atrocious signifier to marque promises you can’t keep. Plus, the anticipation that anyone astatine the highly respected web mightiness beryllium exposed to existent quality portion scrolling done Twitter— well, that is simply excessively risky.

This is lone the opening of companies and celebrities “leaving” Elon’s escaped speech-filled Wild West.

On a superior note, everyone would bash good to retrieve that successful beingness determination volition beryllium things that you don’t similar and things that you disagree with.

Last week, it mightiness person been that Ticketmaster melted down and you weren’t capable to get your tickets to The Eras Tour. Today it mightiness beryllium that Twitter reinstated Donald Trump.

But conscionable due to the fact that you don’t similar something, that does not mean you person been a unfortunate of injustice. It does not mean that you, oregon democracy, oregon America, are successful sedate danger.

It simply means that you did not get your way.

Perspective is important and based disconnected this week’s whining connected the World Wide Web— it is sorely lacking successful our nine close now.

Listen to Grace Curley’s amusement from 12-3 each weekday connected WRKO AM 680 and travel her connected Twitter @G_Curley.

Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the abbreviated movie “All Too Well” successful New York connected Nov. 12, 2021. (AP, File)