There are some still holding out hope that Elon Musk will implement freedom of speech on Twitter. However, I am not among them. To me, his first few days have shown that he is going to back down completely, and at this point, it’s possible Donald Trump won’t even be allowed back on.
The fact is, if he was going to do freedom of speech, he would have come in like a whirlwind and just done it. He could have very easily fired every employee at Twitter and brought in his own people. Twitter is not a complicated website. A team of skilled programmers could take over from the old staff and no one would really notice. Instead, like Donald Trump when he became president, Musk has decided to keep much of the staff.
The troubles started immediately after he took over, when he tweeted that he is going to form a council of “widely diverse viewpoints” (i.e., Jewish Sanhedrin) to decide what speech is allowed.
That pretty much proved that we were not getting anything close to what was promised.
Just to be clear – we were promised that all speech allowed by the law would be allowed. That was explicitly promised when Musk described “what I mean by free speech.”
He has also openly described himself as a “free speech absolutist.”
We were promised that. That was the discussion.
When he took over, people started spamming “nigger.” I and many others told people not to do this, but it doesn’t matter – there was a 100% chance that was going to happen, and Musk could not possibly have been surprised by that.
The bitchy faggot house nigger LeBron James complained that his feelings were being very badly hurt by people saying this mean word.
Elon then responded to that house nigger LeBron by retweeting a Jew who is working on “trust and safety” saying that they are deleting all the n-word accounts.
Some people are saying “oh well, it’s okay if we can’t say nigger.” Those people do not grasp the gravity of what has happened here. This is not about saying nigger. It is about Musk openly bowing to a grievance group – LeBron James – and implementing censorship.
He had already stated that the policies on speech had not changed. If the staff was deleting nigger spam accounts, he could easily have just said nothing at all. Instead, he went directly to the whining feelings nigger and said “sorry, master – we shut down those words that hurt your feelings.”
Musk knows that the whole world is watching him right now. He took over and instead of saying “okay, we’re doing free speech now,” he announced a censorship council, and then started directly catering to political correctness whiners.
I would not necessarily be opposed to a policy on saying nigger. Despite popular perception, I don’t personally think an environment where everyone is just doing nigger spam is conducive to productive discussion (necessarily). However, I think the solution is to simply downrank posts that use this word or other slurs, to make it so only people seeking those kinds of posts see them. Right now, Twitter is filled with porn, but you only really see it if you’re looking for it. I have used Twitter a lot and rarely run across porn.
Everyone needs to remember: you could do nigger spam on Twitter as recently as 2017. That is not that long ago. The world was different then, but it is not that long ago. The idea that the whole world is dependent on people not saying the word nigger is inconceivable to me.
That said, it may be possible to have a policy of “no racial slurs” without going onto the slippery slope of censorship. That is not ideal, but maybe it is possible. What is not possible is to cater to the worst kind of whining people – with LeBron James being second only to Jonathan Greenblatt – and vow to make sure their feelings are not hurt. Preventing hurt feelings is the slippery slope, because absolutely anything can hurt LeBron James’ feelings. He’s an extremely emotional person.
If you’re devoted to protecting LeBron’s feelings, how can you not be devoted to protecting the feelings of Jonathan Greenblatt or sobbing blue-haired feminists?
Elon Musk was tested and he failed, and this can only go in the wrong direction.
He should have brought a new staff in immediately, said there will be some hiccups in the first few days, and just done whatever it was he was planning to do. If he would have come in strong with “okay, you can say what you want but you’ll get a week ban for the n-word,” that would have been acceptable to me. It’s not ideal, because I think there is room for a slippery slope there, but saying “you just can’t say this one word” is a lot better than what we have now.
Instead, he waffled, and then he pandered to the worst whiner.
Meanwhile, the media is gloating about how he’s going to keep banning people the ADL wants him to ban. The ADL issued an official list of people they want to ensure are not allowed back on, including Nick Fuentes.
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