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- Tin ( @Tin@beehaw.org ) English58•1 year ago
I’m starting to think maybe Elon isn’t the ‘free speech absolutist’ he claimed to be.
- knotthatone ( @knotthatone@lemmy.one ) English27•1 year ago
You might have a point there. Maybe… just maybe… this Musk fellow is completely full of shit about most things he says.
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Unless he’s talking about rockets, I’ve stopped listening.
- Gaywallet (they/it) ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
A compulsive liar will lie about anything, stop listening entirely
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
It’s hard to lie about physics. He can lie about his schedules, or how he treats his employees, but not about thermodynamics. When he’s talking about rockets, he’s historically been fine. This is a good example: https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E?t=760
- Five ( @Five@slrpnk.net ) English7•1 year ago
I think this explanation would be more coherent if it was given by one of SpaceX’s competent and underpaid engineers. They clearly did a good job of dumbing it down to Elon’s level of comprehension, so that he could sluggishly regurgitate it to the general public and appear to understand rocket science.
- prole ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
Lol @ thinking Musk has even a basic grasp on the physics that his employees work with. I bet you think he “invented Tesla” too.
- agegamon ( @agegamon@beehaw.org ) 13•1 year ago
Oh sure, he’s an absolutist: Free speech for him and people he likes? Absolutely. Free speech for people he doesn’t like? Absolutely not.
- UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ ( @UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org ) 26•1 year ago
Fortunately, Musk walked it back(for now):
UPDATE 1/9/24: Hours after reporting out this initial story, some of the suspended X accounts returned. X has not explained what happened and the affected account owners have no idea why they were briefly suspended. The reinstatement came after notable users such as George Galloway, a former member of the British Parliament, called out Musk for banning the accounts.
Of course, anyone who’s still on there should consider leaving… he’s going to continue to pull this shit, and the more people that interact with the platform, the more legitimized it is.
- Zworf ( @Zworf@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Is it fortunate? It’d be better to press the issue and have all serious media abandon Twitter for good. Now it will keep simmering for longer. Why keep up the pretense?
- zhunk ( @zhunk@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
George Galloway was on Big Brother, so he must not really mind the surveillance and abuse.
- t3rmit3 ( @t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 22•1 year ago
Don’t worry everyone, this was absolutely an accident; they weren’t supposed to be purged, they were just supposed to be moved to a group where their tweets are de-prioritized and hidden from most people! Someone just included the wrong settings on the group object. /s
- Shhalahr ( @Shhalahr@beehaw.org ) 21•1 year ago
So this is what “free speech absolutism” looks like, eh?
- Zworf ( @Zworf@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
It’s free speech Jim, just not as we know it.
- ptsdstillinmymind ( @ptsdstillinmymind@lemmy.studio ) 18•1 year ago
Just as expected
- QuentinCallaghan ( @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz ) English15•1 year ago
Reasons to leave Twitter #9001