Summary
Elon Musk is accused of censoring right-wing accounts on X after at least 14 conservative users who criticised his immigration stance said their blue verification ticks were revoked, restricting their ability to monetize.
Musk, who called anti-immigration Republicans “hateful racists,” has long supported skilled immigration.
Critics allege this violates his “freedom of speech” policy, accusing him of “shadowbanning” dissenters.
The controversy arises amid heated US immigration debates, partly sparked by Donald Trump’s appointment of Indian-born Sriram Krishnan as an AI adviser, a move Musk supported.
“Free SpEeCh”… lol.
For President Musk, speech is free as long it agrees with him.
It’s simple really. If it doesn’t agree with him, that’s not speech, that’s just a barbarian’s gibberish. So the free speech is clearly preserved. Clearly.
What’s amusing is that I’ve seen Nazis on the 'net openly state that there will be “peace” if everyone bows to white supremacy and lets fascism rule, that is. They say the same thing about “free speech” - they demand free speech for all, mostly themselves, until they seize power. Then all speech must agree with their views…or else.
They openly admit this when they can hide behind nyms and so on. Very interesting how Elon’s behavior on “free speech” more or less maps right onto this. Whines about “free speech” on Xitter before he owns it, then takes ownership, and exercises all kinds of censorship on those he disagrees with.
The only speech Musk believes should be free is his own. That is a remarkably consistent stance with nearly all other conservatives.
Imagine for a fucking moment that you declared yourself in favor of free speech while also dictating how others should identify themselves. Trans identification brought this to an absurdist level but conservatives have always been in favor of extremely stringent limits on self-expression.
Musk means a bit of each, but the ability to exploit others for his own gain takes priority.
TIL there are still people on twitter.
Xitter. Its poppin’!
Obligatory “FREE SPEECH HUH???” comment
Free speech absolutist, huh? I think Elon got the words “absolutist” and “abolitionist” mixed up.
“Accused of,” something everyone can see with their own eyes.
Well journalists can get sued and have to defend their wording, so this is a kind of wording that they cant get sued for.
The perpetual failing of the right is they all want to be authoritarians.
accused of censoring
When you post on x you make a gift to elon. It’s no longer yours and he can do whatever he wants with it.
Yes, let them descend into chaos of infighting.
But MAH FREEZED PEACH!
TOWN SQUARE!
Something something argle bargle BIG TECH IS TOO WOKE and that’s why Elon The Magnificent bought it!
Why does anyone have to accuse him of anything? He’s not hiding what he’s doing.
It’s like a new age church. Tons of fragments all following a modern prophet.
Cult, or…Qult.
Musk is a modern profit.
they still use xitter, that’s the problem!
