And let's not pretend Elon is sticking up for "free speech." He's censoring folks who don't agree with him. That isn't free speech, unless you subscribe to fascist definitions of "free speech."
I’m going to need some citations
Musk said he was going to only ban people for violating the law. Is it not against the law to parody someone without identifying that you are a parody. Musk banning these accounts may be fine from your perspective, but not from an absolute free speech perspective.
> 2) Banning the jet tracker, while wrong, makes sense
Doesn’t make sense from the perspective of free speech absolutism. A lot of the bans pre-Musk made sense, like banning Trump for using the platform to foment insurrection. But Musk railed against those actions as examples of censorship, and promised not to operate that way. Instead, he is operating exactly that way. I don’t have a problem with that as it’s his platform, but he 100% went back on his promise as soon as he got control.
> Edit: I can’t reply to you because of dangs rate limit. Your articles are complete bullshit.
You’ve been rate limited for a reason. Please don’t try to get around the rate limit by editing your posts.
I don't understand how people don't get this?
It's like saying "Trump's bad, but what about Thomas Jefferson and slavery!"
It just leaves people scratching their heads.
Really sad fall from grace for Elon. Could've just kept working.
What Elon has done however is put the spotlight on Twitter, almost every issue people have with it is a “preexisting condition”.
Musk revealed files implicating the FBI, CIA and Pentagon but oh my God he voted Republican so he’s evil!
He's running Twitter in a very erratic manner and demonstrating very poor judgement. It's completely reasonable not to trust someone like that with your family's safety.
In general, “past, extremely dead, person was awful; this excuses the current awful person” is _not_ a great argument. It also seems to be a fairly new invention; I’ve only really seen it in the last decade.
Not even going to address the free speech thing, except to say that you must be using a very 1984 “war is peace” sort of definition there…