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Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
(www.politico.eu)
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No matter how much I dislike Musk, I don't think he's giving that much choice. Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether. A real free speech advocate would not succcumb to the pressure of a repressive government, but the article does imply Musk is not the initiator of these bans: "Musk himself said that "the choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets." He said X would publicly post the Turkish government's requests."
Not saying we shouldn't put Tesla's on fire tho.
But when it came to following the orders of the Brazilian Supreme Court to provide information about far-right criminals, he defied the country and had X banned for a few weeks on the whole country.
There is a clear bias when it comes to who X bans, which always favors governments with authoritarian tendencies.
Yeah so the solution there is to not just bow down to a dictator. If they want to block Twitter altogether, let them. Let's not pretend that Musk isn't willingly going along with that.
He only cares about laws when he wants to. He literally controls the internet over their head with Starlink. He could have uncensored Twitter on there and FYIWDWYTM. He isn't powerless. He is, once again, selectively deciding who gets free speech.
Does it really make a difference whether it's Erdogan or Musk who silences these people?
For the people on the streets it doesn't change anything, but it's weird how little blame Erdogan is getting here.
Because he is getting blamed all the time, no one is defending that piece of shit. He has been a thorn in everybodys side for very long.
Musk, on the other hand, is still seen as a genious hero by some people.
Just because most everyone agrees doesn’t mean you should stop. The vast majority of Lemme seems to agree that Musk is a piece of shit, but I’m going to keep point it out anyway.