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Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
(www.politico.eu)
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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I get that it's trendy to bash Elon, but he has always said that X would attempt to follow local laws:
He has pushed back on countries who attempt to push their censorship dictates on the world -- hence, why many of the account suspensions are only in effect within Turkey:
Larger question: Why is Elon/X getting more flak than the authoritarian douchebag -- Erdoğan -- and his cronies in the judiciary who are censoring and jailing political opponents?
I don't like the either/or, but I think Elon is an easier target in the Anglosphere. But the US government, of which Elon is a part, has been enabling authoritarian douchebags, and even if this act is consistent with the company's pragmatic compliance choices, it also aligns with the US administration's general tendency. And Elon has in other cases shown that his commitment to free speech is pretty weak if it's speech that he doesn't like.