Arman · 12 answers · 1y

Elon Musk tweeted that Trump's account will be reinstated. Thoughts?

Did Elon Musk Tweet that his head looks like those thumb guys from Spy Kids? Because then he'd finally shock me by doing something I didn't already know he was going to do, and by saying something that is deeply true.

Fine - he's not in power anymore, so people really don't need to give his words any authority.

He's right to reinstate Trump's account. Trump never should have been banned in the first place. However, Elon Musk is showing his true colors and what a fraud he is about free speech by refusing to reinstate Alex Jones who also should have never been banned. People who oppose free speech don't deserve rights. They're enemies of humanity.

I don't care, Twitter deserves whatever it gets...Trump is Frankenstein's monster, he was created, he's a symptom of a larger rot, but everybody leaned into it because it suited their immediate needs - and yes that includes liberals, who have been running on 'but Trump!' for at least six years and counting, Clinton's people wanted him to win the nomination in 2016, so for liberals to hand-wring about him now is nauseating

On one hand I wish Twitter would continue to ban dangerous violence-inciting speech and misinformation, not only for its own sake but also because it hinders the Republicans; but, on the other hand, I'm sympathetic to the idea of total/more free speech because censorship can easily be for stupid reasons and/or become authoritarian, so I'm not too mad. But I am scared at the leverage that allowing hate speech and misinformation will give to the Republicans, so, overall, I wish they wouldn't.

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