Musk's "Free Speech"
To anyone buying into Musk's propaganda on "free speech", don't be fooled.
He claims to be equally banning far-right and far-left Twitter users, leaving on the platform that sweet 80% of centrists open to rational dialogue. This is what he claims.
What he is actually doing is banning anti-fascist or even moderately left-wing activists and reinstating far-right extremists, neo-fascists and neo-nazis in an attempt to cater to the Republican Party, whose leaders are very happy to have him at their side.
He is using Twitter as his own personal plaything, single handedly deciding who is allowed to speak, who is not, and how much weight is given to any single opinion. This is the exact opposite of free speech.
If speech being regulated by a single company is bad enough (Twitter as it was), how bad is it when a single person owns the public forum (Twitter as it is)?
If you are seriously in favor of free speech, you shouldn't be supporting Musk. You should be supporting ongoing efforts to create a decentralized, publicly owned social media where open and rational debate can actually take place without top-down control by a board of directors or a single dictator.
Freedom of speech, by definition, cannot be in the hands of a single person. Let's get rid of this dangerous fantasy and understand that real freedom only comes in equality and cooperation.
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