Good thing Elon owns it and not you. One person’s conspiracy theory is another person’s unpopular assessment that later turns out to be correct. I want to hear it all whether you want to or not. There’s a pretty long list of things that are now considered facts but were once fringe conspiracy theories. An easy and recent one is the COVID-19 lab leak theory [0][1a][1b][2] (I could easily post links for hours of all of the “dangerous conservatives” who were called every derogatory name in the book for what turns out was the correct assessment).
And terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” have completely lost their meaning after watching how they’ve been used as a tool to censor views those applying the labels don’t like…
[0]: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
[1a]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotto...
[1b]: https://cis.mit.edu/news-media/news/2020/tom-cotton-keeps-re...
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-...
The only thing that does exist is racism
What you are saying indirectly are that common people are idiots to believe those 'conspiracy theories' ? or am I misinterpreting you?
>Accusing someone of being a pedophile without evidence isn't something you just say "Well at least he's speaking his mind!" to.
No I did not quite mean that. No excuses for him to call someone names. But if you know people ( or along lines of what I understand of people), actions speak louder than words. The most evil people manage to hide their evilness though glib talk.
When this person owns one of the largest communication platforms on Earth and regularly spreads conspiracy theories, disinformation, and transphobia... yes, I would prefer they hide that. That rhetoric does real harm to people.
Accusing someone of being a pedophile without evidence isn't something you just say "Well at least he's speaking his mind!" to.
The richest man on Earth should be able to afford a therapist, or at least a PR firm. If his ego is preventing him from doing so, well, that's a fair thing to criticize.