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So originally, it was that he was a "free speech absolutist," then it was that he was in favor of free speech "within the bounds of the law," and now he's not even in favor of that.
He never was, that was just an excuse to amplify the voice of his far-right buddies.
I know. It was more about what he said.
Freedom of (my) speech.
I wish I was free from his speech, specifically.
I don't believe this because it gives Elon Musk too much credit and honestly I think he's just a big loser who will latch on to whoever likes him at the time.
A series of stupid events led to Twitter being full of stupid far right nutjobs and stupid Elon decided they're his people now because they use his stupid platform.
I'm not so sure about that. The big tell is that whenever a far-right user complained to him about getting a tweet removed or the account getting banned or something like that, he'd respond that he'll personally take care of it. Just imagine, a billionare running a platform with millions of users personally taking care of a single one. This never happened with other people.
I personally haven't heard of this, but if it's true it's probably just because he's latched on to them like I was saying. He didn't buy Twitter with some nefarious conservative intent to unblock far right accounts, he bought it because he's an idiot who got into a pissing match on social media. He even tried to get out of the sale claiming "bots" and the owners threatened to sue the shit out of him.
Edit: Lol people downvoting because I haven't heard of this? Never said it's not true, I just haven't heard of it.
Example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgKSQUrXoAABPWi.jpg
I agree with your assessment. I'm not claiming that he has a plan of any sorts, things just happen in a spur of the moment. However, that's also the appeal of the far-right. It doesn't need research or having a solid base of knowledge to base their opinions on, it's just random stuff these people read on the Internet that feels good to them.
Yet less than a month after he finished the acquisition he unblocked the orange excrescence. That's the fastest he could get to it, because the first week he was firing execs, the second week he was laying off half the workforce, and the third week he was already dicking around with Twitter Blue and charging for the checkmark.
Admittedly, the sink in the lobby was a higher priority timewise, but he got around to unblocking Donald Trump as quickly as he could, AND while janitorial staff were still available to clean the Twitter HQ bathrooms.
Coincidence? I think not.
This seems more accurate somehow
By free speech absolutist he really meant he thinks fascists should be able to say whatever they want.
"Down with fascism! No more free political speech!"
Non sequitur
No, he's a free speech absolutist!
Aka
A fuckin liar who would piss himself to death if people actually told him what they think about him.
Freedom for me but not for thee
I guess it's all about his political ambition.
Oh god, I just had a flash of a near future where he's on the US ballot somehow. It wouldn't be a huge surprise if he found a way. He could change the name of the States to X too!
X party. Yikes.
Please, I beg you, don't scare me.
For any office except president (possibly not VP either, but that would be a technical issue for constitutional scholars to debate). You have to be native-born to be president.
I am better choice would be the poop emoji.
You gotta be really stupid to believe people like him. They are all the same. It's like a mental sickness. You can feel it even just hearing him talk on TV. Sadly he seems to have the type of mental illness that America accepts and it's actually useful for greed and the American dream. Meanwhile good neurodivergent people suffer life long because society doesn't fit them.
I mean freedom of speech, not reach describes one boundary of the law in that nobody is required to give you a platform as far as i know.
However it does absolutely not fit to the free speech absolutism purported last year.
"No one can act as a moderator to remove my content" This claim does align with with the principle of freedom of speech, but we have to admit that for now, complete freedom without any control can be unsafe. It could potentially lead to spams and political issues. However, the feature of not asking for phone numbers or email addresses sounds interesting, especially considering Elon is planning to introduce government ID verification.
This is blatant advertisement. Doesn't it violate the instance rules?