Ironically, digging up out-of-context history to disparage someone sounds like a “cancel culture” tactic.

I thought cancel culture was a positive thing.

What you and I think are not really important in this conversation. Elon believes that the Woke Mind Virus is an existential threat to mankind. Perhaps he has been infected.

Maybe he's infected. But he's certainly not entirely wrong on that claim. There's people academically smarter than him that share the same belief.

Is he not entirely wrong in warning “Cancel culture is bad” or not entirely wrong in Canceling someone?

Whatever you said he believes in on your previous comment.

What's out of context?

Don’t you see the irony here, though?

When a very powerful man with a large following “just posts a screenshot”, he is supposed to be unaccountable for the actions his followers take, even if his additional context dog-whistles to his fans that the guy is a pedo.

When a relative nobody “just posts already-public information about a physical object”, suddenly that’s not just worthy of a ban, but of a nuisance lawsuit.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/dy79wm/elon-musk-yoel-ro...

No one is accountable for the actions of others if they where not explicitly directed.

And yet Musk is suing the @elonjet guy because someone attacked his car.

See what I mean by the irony?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944?s=20...

He also misrepresented what the thesis was saying in the same tweet, deliberately playing into homophobic tropes associating gay people with pedophilia.

> Uh no. He simply posted a screenshot from the guy’s thesis.

That is BS. Musk posted it with this false comment, which he knew would enrage his followers (and it did, I saw tons of "all pedophiles deserve to die" about Roth after this):

> Looks like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult Internet services in his PhD thesis.

Which is, unsurprisingly, the exact opposite of what Roth was arguing for. Here is what the DailyMail (not exactly a liberal rag) said about Roth's thesis:

> Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth

In other words, he specifically wanted to separate kids from an app that was intended for adults.

Now, people can definitely debate in good faith whether Roth's argument is a good idea or not - I think it's most definitely not. But it's not because of the absolutely false trope that Roth wants to make kids available to adults, which is basically what Musk has deliberately whipped up his followers into a frenzy about.