Of course the irony is that on the flipside, now Elon's using X to censor liberal, progressive, and leftist voices. For example the whole "cisgender" debacle. Or how he had an account banned that was tweeting out the whereabouts of his private plane -- a practice which was being conducted based on publicly available data, for the record.
And that's alright, that's his prerogative as the owner of Twitter. He can run the platform how he wishes. It's just very odd behaviour for a self-described "free speech absolutist" although that is a claim he did backpedal on, once it turned out to be bollocks.
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And now for a slightly spicier take. Is it actually bad that conservative voices were being censored? We can all see what happens with this kind of stuff running amok. Like, I'm from Northern Europe and between looking at the rising of the alt-right and pseudo-fascists -- if not even actual fascists in some cases -- all around the EU with support from Musk and the US regime members, the POTUS threatening Greenland and thus not only Denmark but also all of the US' allies here in Europe, him also invading a sovereign nation to kidnap its head of state (Maduro deserved to go, but not like this, not with a blatant violation of international law), and the murders, the disappearances, the disregard for peoples' rights (even the "illegals" have the right to due process, after all), the intimidation of the free press and courts, and similar acts happening in the US on a daily basis, we can clearly see that the current conservative ideology is a threat to peoples' liberty and freedom.
And all of us have studied history. We know where this goes, as we've seen this before. It's a clear subversion of the democratic order that has held its ground for the last 80 years, however imperfectly. And we can clearly see that even in the tech sector the so-called "politically neutral" technology gets subverted to support these ends. And one can of course deal out a bunch of whataboutism regarding the USSR, East Germany, Venezuela, China, etc. but as we can currently see, it's currently not the commies causing these problems. It's the brownshirts. And if that situation ever changes, the focused ire of the democratic majority can be redirected, but today's not that day.
And that's alright, that's his prerogative as the owner of Twitter. He can run the platform how he wishes. It's just very odd behaviour for a self-described "free speech absolutist" although that is a claim he did backpedal on, once it turned out to be bollocks.
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And now for a slightly spicier take. Is it actually bad that conservative voices were being censored? We can all see what happens with this kind of stuff running amok. Like, I'm from Northern Europe and between looking at the rising of the alt-right and pseudo-fascists -- if not even actual fascists in some cases -- all around the EU with support from Musk and the US regime members, the POTUS threatening Greenland and thus not only Denmark but also all of the US' allies here in Europe, him also invading a sovereign nation to kidnap its head of state (Maduro deserved to go, but not like this, not with a blatant violation of international law), and the murders, the disappearances, the disregard for peoples' rights (even the "illegals" have the right to due process, after all), the intimidation of the free press and courts, and similar acts happening in the US on a daily basis, we can clearly see that the current conservative ideology is a threat to peoples' liberty and freedom.
And all of us have studied history. We know where this goes, as we've seen this before. It's a clear subversion of the democratic order that has held its ground for the last 80 years, however imperfectly. And we can clearly see that even in the tech sector the so-called "politically neutral" technology gets subverted to support these ends. And one can of course deal out a bunch of whataboutism regarding the USSR, East Germany, Venezuela, China, etc. but as we can currently see, it's currently not the commies causing these problems. It's the brownshirts. And if that situation ever changes, the focused ire of the democratic majority can be redirected, but today's not that day.