I don’t think musk brought back free speech. I think he just changed who the limited free speech applies to.

"Free speech!" Meanwhile, Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

What of Musk? Could it be that he just likes strongmen and weird bigots, and it's for them he wants free speech, and everyone else can hang?

(Hint: it's this one.)

It could be that he respects the laws of different countries.

Excuse me, but Elon called himself a free speech absolutist. How meekly that principle retreats when a government just tells him, "no!"

Right. It's not "free speech absolutism" to let a dictator push you around with what speech your very principled platform puts on, is it?

Twitter used to fight those, as I mentioned. And won a lot of them. Again: what of Musk? Surely it's not just an act and he's a simp for dictators.

Fight those, so long as they were trying to take down left-wingers, right?

Unless you have information I do not, you have no idea the content of those requests. But given the list of countries that Twitter refused demands from, I am willing to guess that no, it's not all requests aimed at your ideological brethren.

Also ‘cis’ is banned for being a slur.

as it should be imho. the way lgbtq use that term is usually hateful.

Which is beautifully ridiculous. Are any real slurs banned there?

Previously people were banned for tweeting (...sorry x-ing): "men are not women". Twitter is the same anti-free-speech cesspool, just different management.

> Twitter's former management would have at least put up a fight when Erdogan wanted things taken down. And we know this because they did, regularly, with regards to requests from governments around the world.

Under Twitter’s previous ownership, the social media site complied with government takedown requests at a lower rate.

Twitter fully complied with 440, or 50 percent, of requests and partially complied with 377, or 42 percent, during the 12-month period before Musk’s takeover.

Turkey was also the biggest source of these requests at 27 percent, followed by South Korea with 20.6 percent and India with 12.8 percent.

- https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...

I personally get both sides; at least the JP branch of Twitter was messing a lot with trends and pushing weird left-wing extremisms. That stopped because JP branch stopped existing. On the other hand, he's started running ethnic cleansing on the platform, so yeah it's what you said as well.

Caricature of free speech.

What Musk has changed in the time since he acquired Twitter is the following:

* Changed the moderation policies to allow more speech that had previously been considered impermissible hate speech or violent speech.

* Increased compliance with government censorship requests (which are predominantly of the form "please make this person stop saying bad things about me," and, in many cases, isn't actually permissible under that country's constitution).

Musk brought back free speech? Has he unsuspended PlainSite? How about the Elon Jet Tracker?

In the actual sense, as in people discussing without being suspended left and right for ideological offenses. Not as in "people tracking other people's private jet flights".

He not allowing his own ass or companies to be criticized on his own platform, I can take as still an improvement free-speech-wise other the previous situation.