You must be very poor to follow the instructions of a government that will gone tomorrow
I’ll have no Twitter at all. Thank you.
Guess Elon was never given a brain if this is his response.
It’s the wrong decision:
– You restrict the opponents so only government endorsed stuff will be seen
– If you tell them off and they shut you down all together, then people will know it’s the fault of the gov’t
What a pathetic piece of shit manchild
Musk literally admitting it.
I’m really starting to think that beside having rich parents, this guy is just another lucky morron.
tfw the two worst people you know are fighting
Using VPN seems to most convenient solution for short time.
Can someone ELI5 Elon’s response? What does he mean?
Why everybody still love this piece of **** Musk?
throttle! I’m not Turkish but if they censor that effects me too!
Apparently Elon is a “free speech absolutist” only when people want to offend discriminated minorities. When authoritarian regimes want to censor him, he complies.
The choice any sane person would want, is to grow a spine and refuse to bend over to Erdogan. Guess that’s too much to ask…
Muskrat being Muskrat
Yeah we would have access to twitter with VPN. At most, you would wait for 2 days for ban to lift. I guess he didn’t want to take chances. He is incapable of understanding how this effects Turkey. They ban twitter today, internet tomorrow. Noth Korea is the limit.
As a Kılıçdaroğlu supporter this is good think for us. They banned “ekşi sözlük” for this reason.
Does anyone really still use Twitter?
A self proclaimed “free speech absolutist” enforcing censorship, nice.
‘we’ve taken action to restrict some content in turkey today’
Strange way to say ‘we’ve censored the opposition in the election my autocratic friend will be running in.’
Elon Musk is one slippery rodent.
Throttled, please.
“free speech absolutist” my ass.
Elon Musk has no balls. He acts as a bully to anyone who’ll let him but he dissolves into little puddles whenever he’s the littlest bit pressured. What a pathetic asswipe.
Elon Musk has worse communication skills than most low level management
When will this fucking guy just spontaneously combust or something please
So either censor yourself or get blocked completely? And Elon immediately complies? Interesting! If the relatively small Turkey can do it, maybe we should use some more pressure in the EU to make them pay more tax and work better against hate speech and disinformation.
Hmmmmmmm less income for elon or influence an election?
Missed opportunity to plug Starlink but I guess fascism is better for his pocket.
*Free Speech Absolutist Package Deal*
Are you an autocratic leader of a country before a historical election?
No problem! Threaten Elon with “throttling” Twitter in your country and Twitter will rush to silence your opponent just before the election!
“internet’s town square”
“Free speech”
I seem to remember Musk and his rats shouting words like those
Is literal government censorship their idea of free speech or are they spineless shit-for-brain cowards?
As a Turkish person. I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. I don’t use Twitter, but I know it’s important for people to communicate especially when media is massively in the control of the the current government. If Twitter was shut down in its entirety it would not bode well for Kılıçdaroğlu supporters during the elections.
Lol people like to boo Elon without having any context, the guy literally explains in the tweet that Turkish government was going to throttle twitter if they didn’t restrict few accounts. That would be a disaster considering the elections.
Not to mention that those accounts are anonymous gülen supporters, which is an islamic cult that were once friend of erdogan, but now opposes erdogan just bc of their interests, they are not actual opposition. [an example](https://twitter.com/who98408150)
It’s almost as if he bought Twitter and is running it into the ground because he’s being handsomely paid by some people who would rather see Twitter throttled in this way.
Funny, most Turkish citizens would know we won’t have any internet access by the time the results are getting announced. So, no need take such actions Twitter.
Standard billionaire mentality.
Previous mangement censors tweets = evil, horrible, wrong, deep state
I censor tweets = necessary, inevitable, only real option
He also did this for deboosting. When Twitter was deboosting accounts before his management, he moaned and cried about censorship. Then he went in charge and came out with this revolutionary concept of “no freedom of reach”. Which is literally just the same thing.
What’s that American joke like? “If a homeless man says he knows how to solve world hunger, he is a fool, but if a billionaire says it, he is a genius”.
musk’s response here is possibly the most disingenuous sentence I’ve ever read.
Also disrespectful in the answer. Stupid asshole
So you believe in free speech, selective free speech?
Its either no twitter at all or censored twitter.
“The choice to lose money by shutting down Twitter in Turkey or the choice to complain to a almost-dictatorial government by giving them an unfair advantage during an election”
Shithole website
An actual effort to uphold free speech is what we want you spineless rodent
Turk here, he was kinda right.
People here already polarized more than ever, no any tweet or something will change mind.
Also keeping twitter open for possible ballot fraud actions are important. This is an important communication channel. I would prefer to see 5 less personal tweet rather than losing all access to twitter.
Not that I am particularly informed about whatever is happening in Turkey, but in France, political campaigning is forbidden the day before the election day and during the election day. Twitter complying with some form of similar laws in Turkey wouldn’t be too shocking.
Obviously having it throttled in its entirety what the fuck is wrong with you Elon
Never seen a smarter child than Elon.
Musk going full Musk
Just like Russia Today is blocked in the EU. Twitter can’t just stand above the law and the choice to block all access to Twitter would be far more damaging to the election process.
Most other platforms don’t share when certain content is blocked, at least Twitter is open to an extent. The only improvement would be to share the request made by the Turkish government.
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Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657422401754259461
spoken like a true free speech absolutist
You must be very poor to follow the instructions of a government that will gone tomorrow
I’ll have no Twitter at all. Thank you.
Guess Elon was never given a brain if this is his response.
It’s the wrong decision:
– You restrict the opponents so only government endorsed stuff will be seen
– If you tell them off and they shut you down all together, then people will know it’s the fault of the gov’t
What a pathetic piece of shit manchild
Musk literally admitting it.
I’m really starting to think that beside having rich parents, this guy is just another lucky morron.
tfw the two worst people you know are fighting
Using VPN seems to most convenient solution for short time.
Can someone ELI5 Elon’s response? What does he mean?
Why everybody still love this piece of **** Musk?
throttle! I’m not Turkish but if they censor that effects me too!
Apparently Elon is a “free speech absolutist” only when people want to offend discriminated minorities. When authoritarian regimes want to censor him, he complies.
The choice any sane person would want, is to grow a spine and refuse to bend over to Erdogan. Guess that’s too much to ask…
Muskrat being Muskrat
Yeah we would have access to twitter with VPN. At most, you would wait for 2 days for ban to lift. I guess he didn’t want to take chances. He is incapable of understanding how this effects Turkey. They ban twitter today, internet tomorrow. Noth Korea is the limit.
As a Kılıçdaroğlu supporter this is good think for us. They banned “ekşi sözlük” for this reason.
Does anyone really still use Twitter?
A self proclaimed “free speech absolutist” enforcing censorship, nice.
‘we’ve taken action to restrict some content in turkey today’
Strange way to say ‘we’ve censored the opposition in the election my autocratic friend will be running in.’
Elon Musk is one slippery rodent.
Throttled, please.
“free speech absolutist” my ass.
Elon Musk has no balls. He acts as a bully to anyone who’ll let him but he dissolves into little puddles whenever he’s the littlest bit pressured. What a pathetic asswipe.
https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1657382801430200320
Elon Musk has worse communication skills than most low level management
When will this fucking guy just spontaneously combust or something please
So either censor yourself or get blocked completely? And Elon immediately complies? Interesting! If the relatively small Turkey can do it, maybe we should use some more pressure in the EU to make them pay more tax and work better against hate speech and disinformation.
Hmmmmmmm less income for elon or influence an election?
Missed opportunity to plug Starlink but I guess fascism is better for his pocket.
*Free Speech Absolutist Package Deal*
Are you an autocratic leader of a country before a historical election?
No problem! Threaten Elon with “throttling” Twitter in your country and Twitter will rush to silence your opponent just before the election!
“internet’s town square”
“Free speech”
I seem to remember Musk and his rats shouting words like those
Is literal government censorship their idea of free speech or are they spineless shit-for-brain cowards?
As a Turkish person. I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. I don’t use Twitter, but I know it’s important for people to communicate especially when media is massively in the control of the the current government. If Twitter was shut down in its entirety it would not bode well for Kılıçdaroğlu supporters during the elections.
Lol people like to boo Elon without having any context, the guy literally explains in the tweet that Turkish government was going to throttle twitter if they didn’t restrict few accounts. That would be a disaster considering the elections.
Not to mention that those accounts are anonymous gülen supporters, which is an islamic cult that were once friend of erdogan, but now opposes erdogan just bc of their interests, they are not actual opposition. [an example](https://twitter.com/who98408150)
It’s almost as if he bought Twitter and is running it into the ground because he’s being handsomely paid by some people who would rather see Twitter throttled in this way.
Funny, most Turkish citizens would know we won’t have any internet access by the time the results are getting announced. So, no need take such actions Twitter.
Standard billionaire mentality.
Previous mangement censors tweets = evil, horrible, wrong, deep state
I censor tweets = necessary, inevitable, only real option
He also did this for deboosting. When Twitter was deboosting accounts before his management, he moaned and cried about censorship. Then he went in charge and came out with this revolutionary concept of “no freedom of reach”. Which is literally just the same thing.
What’s that American joke like? “If a homeless man says he knows how to solve world hunger, he is a fool, but if a billionaire says it, he is a genius”.
musk’s response here is possibly the most disingenuous sentence I’ve ever read.
Also disrespectful in the answer. Stupid asshole
So you believe in free speech, selective free speech?
Its either no twitter at all or censored twitter.
“The choice to lose money by shutting down Twitter in Turkey or the choice to complain to a almost-dictatorial government by giving them an unfair advantage during an election”
Shithole website
An actual effort to uphold free speech is what we want you spineless rodent
Turk here, he was kinda right.
People here already polarized more than ever, no any tweet or something will change mind.
Also keeping twitter open for possible ballot fraud actions are important. This is an important communication channel. I would prefer to see 5 less personal tweet rather than losing all access to twitter.
Not that I am particularly informed about whatever is happening in Turkey, but in France, political campaigning is forbidden the day before the election day and during the election day. Twitter complying with some form of similar laws in Turkey wouldn’t be too shocking.
Obviously having it throttled in its entirety what the fuck is wrong with you Elon
Never seen a smarter child than Elon.
Musk going full Musk
Just like Russia Today is blocked in the EU. Twitter can’t just stand above the law and the choice to block all access to Twitter would be far more damaging to the election process.
Most other platforms don’t share when certain content is blocked, at least Twitter is open to an extent. The only improvement would be to share the request made by the Turkish government.