And it's fine to make an argument against moderation in general. But that's not what this article is doing.
That sort of gaslighting?
Or maybe the implication that Twitter will henceforth not allow government or govt affiliated entities to request content moderation (they will) or that they won’t give such requests preference (they will) or that they shouldn’t give such requests preference (a matter of opinion, but not crazy to believe they should).
Geopolitical hat on.
Elon Musk is getting close to the Saudis (Twitter), China (Gigafactory Shanghai), and Russians (necessary industrial inputs). In the past few months he's casually suggested a handover of Ukraine and Taiwan. Now he's turning on the Democrats and the FBI, or at least certain members of those organizations.
My mind wonders if the DoD will sour on his role at SpaceX. We've recently seen lawmakers impact the valuation of Tesla vis a vis tax incentives.
Perhaps he or the company he keeps have enough friends within the DoD chain of command that there won't be any issues. But I am half expecting to see sparks fly.
(I'm 100% reading between the lines here, and I don't have any evidence for any of this. Feel free to dismiss outright, though I would appreciate additional commentary if anyone has anything interesting to add.)
4 hours later he tried to backpedal, which is perhaps the only move more pathetic than having boosted the propaganda in the first place.
The much more reasonable explanation for Musk's behavior with respect to the Democrats and FBI is that he does not like the censorship going on with the gradual fusing of the US security sector and US Tech companies.
No, it wasn't. It was Bidens presidential campaign asking to remove revenge porn.
Secondly, this kind of moderation is counterproductive. It gives all the conspiracy theorists a true conspiracy to point to -- they really are being suppressed by "the man" or "the Feds" or whatever. Also, no matter how much stuff gets moderated, the left will never be happy.
End result: everyone is mad at Twitter, nobody trusts anything, conspiracy theorists get to make true claims about suppression, and more people are attracted to misinformation because it was suppressed -- e.g. "the government doesn't want you to know this!" or "see what the government is trying to hide from you!"