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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by s1artibartfast on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:22AM (#31164223)
Who ever said he is an absolutist? I have only seen that claim from critics making a no true Scott's an argument. At a minimum he said he will regulate illegal content.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by fzeroracer on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:53AM (#31164394)
He's literally referred to himself as a free speech absolutist [1]. I don't know how much more explicit it can get here. Unless you want to argue that he's a hypocrite and his words have no meaning or something, in which case that's precisely the problem a lot of people have with him and his 'free speech' stance.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499976967105433600?s=20...

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by simondotau on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:17AM (#31166062)
It could be argued that dissemination of someone else's speech isn't your speech, and thus there's no hypocrisy.
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