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"Free SpEeCh".... lol.
He revoked the blue brand label from their account.
Its literally digital class system.
- Top: the biggot himself
- his chosen (gifted) ones
- the suckers who pay
- Bottom: the poor and the disgraced (social censorship)
Everyone not on the platform doesn’t exist. (Technical censorship)
Do not question your god king or you will end your days as one of the poor, or worse you’ll be vanished.
It’s digital feudalism.
He also canceled people's subscription to the targeted accounts and reduced the visibility of any account that gets blocked or muted by a number of accounts with larger follower counts.
For President Musk, speech is free as long it agrees with him.
It's simple really. If it doesn't agree with him, that's not speech, that's just a barbarian's gibberish. So the free speech is clearly preserved. Clearly.
What's amusing is that I've seen Nazis on the 'net openly state that there will be "peace" if everyone bows to white supremacy and lets fascism rule, that is. They say the same thing about "free speech" - they demand free speech for all, mostly themselves, until they seize power. Then all speech must agree with their views....or else.
They openly admit this when they can hide behind nyms and so on. Very interesting how Elon's behavior on "free speech" more or less maps right onto this. Whines about "free speech" on Xitter before he owns it, then takes ownership, and exercises all kinds of censorship on those he disagrees with.
The only speech Musk believes should be free is his own. That is a remarkably consistent stance with nearly all other conservatives.
Imagine for a fucking moment that you declared yourself in favor of free speech while also dictating how others should identify themselves. Trans identification brought this to an absurdist level but conservatives have always been in favor of extremely stringent limits on self-expression.
Musk means a bit of each, but the ability to exploit others for his own gain takes priority.
Musk is only "America first" because it's the best place for his business.
He now essentially owns the government.
He has paid a shit ton for the election. He has government contracts.
Elon Musk is America.
When (some) people realise what Elon Musk actually is, what America actually is, they are gonna be disgusted (I know that there are a lot of people that already see this).
America should be awesome.
But it has sold out
Free speech absolutist, huh? I think Elon got the words "absolutist" and "abolitionist" mixed up.
I love free speech. But sometimes it gets you punched in the face. Hopefully he gets punched.
Flatulist to the king
I'm just going to leave this here for anyone who wants to look at it.
Obligatory "FREE SPEECH HUH???" comment
Which is exactly what some conservative said when his account was diverified.
These people don't realize that the same concentric cone of fascism that they loved and voted for just targeted them.
accused of censoring
When you post on x you make a gift to elon. It's no longer yours and he can do whatever he wants with it.
TIL there are still people on twitter.
Xitter. Its poppin’!
The perpetual failing of the right is they all want to be authoritarians.
So much for the tolerant left!
“Accused of,” something everyone can see with their own eyes.
Well journalists can get sued and have to defend their wording, so this is a kind of wording that they cant get sued for.
Yes, let them descend into chaos of infighting.
But MAH FREEZED PEACH!
TOWN SQUARE!
Something something argle bargle BIG TECH IS TOO WOKE and that's why Elon The Magnificent bought it!
Why does anyone have to accuse him of anything? He's not hiding what he's doing.
they still use xitter, that's the problem!
They know they will never get those followers back on a different platform.
It’s like a new age church. Tons of fragments all following a modern prophet.
Cult, or...Qult.
Musk is a modern profit.
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