by Chirs Black
Elon Musk taking over Twitter seems genuinely legit.
The E.U. adopted new measures that require big online platforms to police hate speech and disinformation only days before Twitter entered into an agreement to sell the company to Elon Musk. t.co/niy0kya1Rk
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) April 26, 2022
(((They))) are preparing to take down the new “Free Speech” Twitter, because free speech is hate speech and after all, we live in a democracy and these are our values.
The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Are you ready for Alex Jones to get back?
Elon Musk and Twitter employee reinstate Alex Jones’s account live on Joe Rogan’s podcast: pic.twitter.com/BWR8EGJXfz
— Damon imani🔅 (@damonimani) April 26, 2022
If I had to take a guess, any new free speech protections on Twitter would be limited to unbanning Trump, anti vaxers, and maybe allow some criticism of the practice of making small children transsexuals.
Anything more substantial than Joe Rogan type stuff just can’t be allowed to be expressed in the public square because of how fragile the US system is.
Elon Musk right now is like Andy Dufresne when he played that opera music in the prison