Teslag said:
nai06 said:
mesocosm said:
PanzerAggie06 said:
Whether Elon is being hypocritical or not I have zero concern with him suspending leftists on Twitter. They delighted in Twitter suspending or permanently banning all sorts of various conservative posters. Now that the shoe is on the other foot we hearing the pigs squeal about the "threat the democracy' and the "violation of the 1st amendment".
As I was told by many liberals over the years in regards to Twitter....."don't like what Twitter is doing then start your own social media platform". Well, back at ya' libs.
That's all fine but Elon certainly can't claim to be a free speech absolutist anymore
Who actually thought he would really stick to being all about free speech?
I mean he paid 40 billion for it, he can suspend whomever he wants. People will still call him out on it. He really wants to be adored and doesn't like people making fun of him (see the recent bannings of accounts posting videos being booed.)
Being so openly hands on with Twitter probably isn't great for his investment or his own mental health. But again, he paid for it so he can do what he pleases with it.
Not surprised to see you okay with doxing
But he isn't just banning people for "doxxing." <--loose definition of doxxing, btw, considering flight logs are public record. He's banning journalists he doesn't like just for being critical of him. And he banned a bunch of people for sharing the Chappelle video too.
I know it's a private company and he can do what he wants, but he bought twitter under the guise of transforming it into a haven of free speech. It's not that, and he's behaving increasingly unhinged about it.
You can applaud it because he's banning accounts of annoying liberals like Keith Olbermann, but I think we can all put the "Elon is pro-free speech" trope to bed. He clearly is not.