Why is Elon Musk lecturing Ireland on ‘free speech’ given he was fine with censoring Turkish voices on Twitter?
by Randommanwithadog1
Why is Elon Musk lecturing Ireland on ‘free speech’ given he was fine with censoring Turkish voices on Twitter?
by Randommanwithadog1
12 comments
Because he’s a prick.
who gives a fuck
I don’t agree with the proposed laws being brought in in Ireland, but, the answer is, Elon is a lying childish knob head
While I don’t like Elon Musk, as owner of X he can do precisely what he likes with it. The matter of a government enacting laws about speech is entirely different.
I wish people would all just collectively ignore this absolutely scrotum of a human being.
Anyone who wants free speech should be happy to have Musk raising awareness of it. Why are people bitching about it?
You should know that he is under all sorts of pressure from governments and organisations around the world to censor speech.
He’s a fucking dose
As pointed out [by another poster](https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/19dtsem/ceann_comhairle_must_explain_extreme_left_comment/kj8m77a/), Ireland have adapted a definition of anti-semitism which makes criticism of Israel (particularly as a Zionist state) anti-semitic – and adding to that, this means the Hate Speech laws will broadly make criticism of Israel illegal.
This is already happening across the EU (formally, as government policy), and all of us have seen peoples lives (even in Ireland) destroyed for criticism of Israel since Oct 7th.
We’re watching a genocide unfold in Palestine, and the government is granting itself powers which enable them to criminalize criticism of it (regardless of whether or not they _use_ that power, they’re granting themselves that power).
Nobody has any excuse for failing to see this – nor do they have any excuse for failing to fight it – both politically, and in terms of not letting Authoritarians control the narrative in public discussion – Hate Speech laws must be opposed.
Election silence………
I personally like Musk but he will only stay relevant the more people continue to lose their minds every time his name is mentioned. Is this now 3 different posts since that gript thing earlier? Who cares like.
Because Ireland is a functioning democracy so (contrary to his promises) it’s not like he’ll ever have to put his money where his mouth is. Also, Ireland doesn’t have anything he wants so he really does not care.
[https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/turkish-president-erdogan-asks-musk-build-tesla-factory-turkey-2023-09-17/](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/turkish-president-erdogan-asks-musk-build-tesla-factory-turkey-2023-09-17/)
He had to follow the Turkish law, or the Turkish people would lose access to X/Twitter. So he followed the lawful requests, but he made the requests public and tweeted it out clearly, because he wanted the Turkish people (and everyone else i suppose) to understand what and why it was happening.
Whether you like or hate the man, thats the reason. People love to jump on the hate bandwagon.