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Twisted Sister rocker flips out after Alex Jones gets re-platformed, threatens to quit X, sell his Tesla

December 16, 2023 | | Print Article

The frontman of the heavy metal rock outfit Twisted Sister wasn’t down with the long-awaited return of Infowars bad boy Alex Jones to the X platform, formerly known as Twitter.

In a meltdown that brings to mind the 1980s hair band’s iconic classic hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” lead singer Dee Snider expressed his displeasure with Elon Musk by threatening to leave X and for good measure, sell his Tesla.

Last week, the bombastic internet personality made his triumphant return to social media after a user poll by X owner Musk overwhelmingly approved the restoration of his account five years after he was silenced. “The people have spoken and so it shall be,” said Musk after voters overwhelmingly approved the return of Jones.

“So @elonmusk has let @AlexJonesReborn back on the platform & sat in on a forum with AJ & a group of other false prophets?” Snider wrote on X this week. “This isn’t free speech. These are awful people knowingly spreading falsehoods with malevolent intent. It may be time to leave X & sell my Tesla. Standby.”

The 68-year-old Snider is just the latest rocker to shed his anti-establishment ways with his tantrum over Jones’ free speech, joining the likes of cranky old Neil Young who threw a temper tantrum by demanding that Spotify dump podcasting king Joe Rogan over his stance on the COVID jabs.

The reaction from X users was brutal as they torched the rock and roller and radio personality over this siding with the censorship industrial complex.

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Snider’s stance is particularly ironic considering that it was Twisted Sister who nearly four decades ago faced an assault on the band’s free speech when a group of left-wing political wives led by Tipper Gore – the spouse of former veep and global warming gasbag Al Gore – sought to censor his band along with others over what they claimed were explicit lyrics.

In 1985, a much younger Snider appeared at a Senate hearing where he more than held his own, defending free speech against the busybodies who would shut it down. But times have changed in an America rife with authoritarianism that would have been inconceivable during the Reagan era when his testimony took place.

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