As long as he keeps saying he's a free speech absolutist, we have to believe him.... Right?
He seems to be very much in favor of his own speech being completely free of any relation to reality.
Elon should be allowed to say whatever he wants without anyone contradicting or fact checking him. His power to be free to say whatever he wants should be absolute!
Everybody knows that you only attain free speech when you control a platform with hundreds of millions of users and can ban anyone you disagree with at any time, for any reason.
Right, and speech free from criticism obviously
There's nothing more American than bragging about freedom while your freedom is stripped away from you right in front of your eyes.
Free speech abolitionist.
I mean, he's free to say it, but we're free to call him a liar until he uses his immense resources to shut us up like he always does.
Fash support fash.
Ah, so Turkey is who gave Twitter $1bn recently.
They’re also giving us eggs. Hmm
turkey moment
Musk will always side with the fascist or the dictator.
He will always side with profit. If he doesn't do this Turkey will ban X from the country. Of course these kinds of threats only come from fascists so the correlation is indeed high.
People need to get off this stupid platform. It was bad before without Elon, now it's just the worse.
Someone needs to make an inverse-xwitter platform. You're only allowed to tweet if you prove you've been banned on X.
Call it Y
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.
Erdogan is a dictator who has the power to block X altogether.
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.
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