Do you have a screenshot of the tweet he agreed with? People keep talking about it and saying that it was bigoted against jewish folks, but no one has actually said what was said or shown it.
I just follow cat and dog accounts on twitter and almost never post anything.
I know this is just a meme, but mini rant time here.
"Free speech" literally just means the government can't arrest, censor, or penalize you for just for the things you express. Of course, there are exceptions for public safety, fraud, etc..
If Musk loses advertising revenue, that is the advertisers exercising their free speech in a free market, and deciding who they associate with.
These crybabies like Musk are upset at having consequences, and throwing a tantrum about their freedom of speech is an intentional red herring and attempt to recontextualize reality so they end up being the victim of some ephemeral bully.
The richest and most powerful people on the planet are not being persecuted.
They are just not used to being called out on their bullshit and are too weak and immature to accept being told they are wrong sometimes.
They don't want free speech they want to force your eyes and ears open, strap you to the chair and shout all the things they wanna say to you 24/7 also you're not allowed to do anything but agree.
«Me plugging my ears as I walk by crazy right wing protestors»
"Ahhh! You're not listening to me! You're not respecting my freedom of speech! And if you tell your friends that I'm an asshole and to avoid my ramblings, then you hate free speech!"
Allowing someone to post mean tweets isn't like that.
You don't have to click on their profile. So the metaphor of you having to physically walk past them doesn't apply. You can choose to not see them if they have a platform online.
What every social media platform is doing is censorship. Anything they don't agree with, even if it turns out to be right a few years down the line gets removed with no due-process and no oversight, by people that are accountable to no one, that no one knows the names of.
This isn't about that though. This is advertiser's going "we don't want to advertise on X because Elon promotes content we don't agree with" and then Elon freaking out because much free speech. Even though no one is blocking or removing what he says, they just no longer want to be associated with it.
What's currently happening is that advertisers are pulling their ads from X/Twitter because Elon replied "This is the full truth" to a neonazi posting the Jewish question. I think if this is censorship, it's a form I agree with. What advertiser wants to be associated with nazis?
You're right; he didn't specifically say that. He called a Twitter post that said Jewish people hate white people was "so right." And that's a big Neonazi thing.
So... he didn't say Hitler was right, just that a major Nazi tenet is.
If I remember correctly, the Gizmodo story on this thing had a link directly to Musk’s tweet, and from there you can see the conversation he was responding to.
I honestly dont understand why anyone cares about or how twitter would lose funding. It feels so masturbatory to say you just want elons stuff to fail just because dont like him as a person which is also weird to me 🤷
This is a really lame perspective you have. If Musk was a country he'd be the 50th wealthiest country in the world.
Wanting to see someone with that much power lose as much as of that power as possible is socially responsible imo. Trying to minimize the opinion of people who are pissed at him using his power to signal boost hate speech as "just because they don't like him" is a really fucking empty headed dumb fuck analysis.
On one hand I agree schadenfreude is a dangerous thing that one should be careful about how they engage in
On the other hand he wields a LOT of power over our discussions as a society because he owns a successful platform. If twitter fails it takes away some of his power to be a shithead and to shape our discussions in a way that sucks (ie, inviting everyone to be bigots and to be cruel to their fellow humans on a scale that's frankly kinda horrifying)
Nah free speech means the government won't stop you. It doesn't mean we gotta listen to you or give you a platform for the hate whether it's irl or online. Gotta read that first ammendment a bit more throughly my dude
Why does a foreign country have the absolute say on a principle/ ideology/ human right whatever you want to call it?
It doesn't make sense. Are you telling me the ideology of freedom of speech only existed and only continues to exist because it is on a bit of paper written in a far away land?
See? You just totally abdicated any responsibility to allow others to speak. Why would you be so concerned with making sure it’s only government which has that responsibility, if you didn’t hate free speech?
A lot of people are very much against humans being free to speak their mind. They would like People to be incapable of that or they would like to be protected from it.