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Is this the part where — in order to avoid being downloaded or flagged — everyone continues to pretend that Musk really is a "free speech absolutist", instead of acknowledging a clear and distinct pattern of what he enforces, and against whom?



Well ... go on, don't keep it to yourself.


He'll censor anything on behalf of Saudi Arabia or India, but complains loudly when it's Brazil.

Why the double standard? He wants a pliable, aligned government in Brazil so he's using his megaphone to try to achieve that.


>don't keep it to yourself

It's not exactly a secret. See, for example, censorship in Turkey and India. In general, he's overwhelmingly approved censorship requests from authoritarian governments. So much for "free speech absolutism".

In general, Musk himself regularly shouts his biases at the top of his lungs, and has applied selective enforcement of Twitter's own TOS. His selectivity can be easily aligned with his biases.


Oh dear, is your web browser broken? It should be trivial to search for detailed critiques, with terms like "Musk free speech hypocrisy", ex:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/16/free-speech-experts-real...


Does this make what is happening in Brazil less wrong?


He does it to individuals and says as such in interviews. You have free speech, but not free reach.

Twitter will limit the number of eyeballs that see your content if Twitter doesn't like what you have to say.




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