'Free speech opportunist' Elon Musk caved to government pressure to censor tweets ahead of the Turkish election. Critics argue SpaceX dealings with the country's right-wing leader may have caused the reversal.

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[–]passionflounder 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't buy into the premise that Musk was particularly concerned with free speech even as I viewed his takeover of Twitter as useful. Regrettably the platform seems to have been returned to the radical left. This likely means the suppression of all speech that doesn't conform to whatever is being pushed at the moment.

[–]brimshae 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So in effect nothing was lost in the long run, except for Elon spending $44 million for us to freely shitpost for a few weeks.

I'd mostly stopped using twitter and I can go back to not using twitter again. Hell, I found out about turbo-shitposters on Fedi because of it, so I consider it a win at least.