06-01-2023, 09:46 PM
(06-01-2023, 05:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I've heard this accusation before, but I've not been witness to it. I did a google search and found some stories in this regard. However, they don't come off as very definitive. And you'll please excuse me if I don't take the word of publications like The Atlantic and Vice that have been railing against Musk since the takeover. Left wing media has an obvious bias against him now that he's dared to espouse non-leftist points of view. While you may disagree, and that would be fine, I don't trust their reporting on him or Twitter unless corroborated by less biased sources.
Recent stories are about his caving to censorship demands of authoritarian governments, which when you click on the Google search you will see also reported on by Business Insider and Reason. Now, I could be in either camp of that debate because I can see both sides of that argument. Back in December, Musk suspended several journalists for reporting on an account that shared public data about Elon's private jet. Now, to be fair, they were reinstated but this was quite the controversy for a while as the journalists suspended were those that generally wrote about Musk and had been critical of him.
Now, after he took over and he had this first incident, he calmed down with this. But Musk has always displayed a desire to silence his critics in a way that was very contrary to the "free speech absolutist" cape he likes to wear. Even before he took over Twitter there were things he had said and done that really highlighted that to me.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
