This guy defends literal Nazis free speech but cuts off tweets for the average Turk
So the “free speech” is entirely at one man’s discretion, this can’t possibly go wrong
Breaking News: Musk does not support free speech, in other news, the earth has water
And this right here people, is why _everyone_ should quit twitter
So, he’s a free speech absolutist till he decides he isn’t one
Twitter is beholden to the local laws of governments around the world, and Elon Musk has stated from the very start that Twitter would uphold the laws and regulations in the countries that it operates in, as it has to from a legal standpoint if it wishes to operate in those countries.
It’s a choice between limiting only 6 accounts on the order of the Turkish government or entirely taking away this platform for likely millions of voters to communicate on.
I mean, in some (most?) jurisdictions, he’s right. Twitter is not a state actor, so the owner is free to not do business with specific customers, within limits. Problem is that Musk has made a big deal about free speech, conflating legal free speech and philosophical free speech along the way (to cater to certain fringe elements), so when he inevitably backtracked (it’s always for-me-but-not-for-thee), it wasn’t a good look.
What a pathetic freedom fighter and freedom loving right wing Rupert junior wanna be. All that Tesla and sole city bs was a sideshow to his craving to control and influence media/politics apparently.
If only we knew that this brave freedom loving self – made man was neither this that nor any of what he pretended to be.
The Chad argument
It was the right decision. It was right before elections and Turkish people literally cannot afford to lose Twitter completely because it is the main source of communication for opposition.
Not removing those tweets would give Erdogan a very quick excuse to ban twitter and do what the fuckever he wants.
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Musk, the Defender of (his own) Free Speech!
~~The Man. The Myth. The Hero!~~ The Twat!
This guy defends literal Nazis free speech but cuts off tweets for the average Turk
So the “free speech” is entirely at one man’s discretion, this can’t possibly go wrong
Breaking News: Musk does not support free speech, in other news, the earth has water
And this right here people, is why _everyone_ should quit twitter
So, he’s a free speech absolutist till he decides he isn’t one
Twitter is beholden to the local laws of governments around the world, and Elon Musk has stated from the very start that Twitter would uphold the laws and regulations in the countries that it operates in, as it has to from a legal standpoint if it wishes to operate in those countries.
It’s a choice between limiting only 6 accounts on the order of the Turkish government or entirely taking away this platform for likely millions of voters to communicate on.
I mean, in some (most?) jurisdictions, he’s right. Twitter is not a state actor, so the owner is free to not do business with specific customers, within limits. Problem is that Musk has made a big deal about free speech, conflating legal free speech and philosophical free speech along the way (to cater to certain fringe elements), so when he inevitably backtracked (it’s always for-me-but-not-for-thee), it wasn’t a good look.
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wait wait, you guys done ridin his dick?
What a pathetic freedom fighter and freedom loving right wing Rupert junior wanna be. All that Tesla and sole city bs was a sideshow to his craving to control and influence media/politics apparently.
If only we knew that this brave freedom loving self – made man was neither this that nor any of what he pretended to be.
The Chad argument
It was the right decision. It was right before elections and Turkish people literally cannot afford to lose Twitter completely because it is the main source of communication for opposition.
Not removing those tweets would give Erdogan a very quick excuse to ban twitter and do what the fuckever he wants.
“I am a free speech absolutist” – Musk