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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Comparing them to Nazis won’t work because they don’t care.
Oh, like not allowing schools and institutions to acknowledge that trans people exist? Or threatening funding if they adhere to anything the government deems DEI? Like that kind of censorship?
They blocked AP News from the White House because they wouldn’t call the Gulf of Mexico by a false name.
Dude, we can see your playbook..
Hey to be fair, he could be saying this as a criticism OR an endorsement
Musk has never been a free speech champion. Before he bought Twitter, he used to [cancel Tesla car orders over unfavorable blogs](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk-blogger-tesla-motors-model-x). He became an ANTI free speech Nazi when be purchased Twitter
[https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/30/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-suspends-critics-on-extwitter-asks-people-to-be-nicer/](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/30/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-suspends-critics-on-extwitter-asks-people-to-be-nicer/)
>Look, we’ve spent [the better part](https://www.techdirt.com/search/?q=elon+musk%2C+free+speech) of the last three years pointing out that Elon Musk [does not understand free speech](https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/24/stop-saying-elon-musk-supports-free-speech-he-appears-to-be-actively-against-that/) and has [often worked directly against](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/can-we-finally-stop-pretending-elon-musk-is-a-free-speech-absolutist-hes-not/) basic principles of free speech. He has [filed numerous lawsuits](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/01/why-are-so-many-free-speech-elon-musk-lawsuits-about-suppressing-speech/) that seek to suppress speech. And even if you want to claim he somehow took a more “free speech” approach to running ExTwitter than his predecessors, you’d still be wrong.
>He has [regularly banned](https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/15/thursday-night-purge-elon-musks-twitter-bans-tons-of-high-profile-journalists/) journalists [who anger him](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-temporarily-bans-journalists-as-free-speech-absolutist-bill-ackman-threatens-slapp-suit-against-journalists/) or [shut down reporting](https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/27/quick-lets-watch-everyone-flip-sides-on-twitters-handling-of-the-hunter-biden-laptop-vs-the-jd-vance-dossier/) that challenges his political allies. He has repeatedly [throttled links](https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/) to sites he [views as competitive](https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/elon-musk-is-running-scared-from-mastodon-cuts-off-the-best-tool-for-finding-your-twitter-followers-there/) and [recently admitted](https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-admits-x-is-throttling-links-effectively-limiting-people-from-reading-news/) to suppressing posts with links to news sources.
OMG. If this was a TV show I’d not believe it.
Hate this piece more and more each day
Cisgender is hate speech now?? JFC. Talk about censorship
These guys are the temu Nazis.
Elon’s praising Hitler’s actions, not speaking out against them.
Part of an administration which order everybody to strip pronouns from their email signatures.
Musk thinks he’s rich and powerful but he isn’t.
Oh, like stopping a major news outlet from covering press conferences?
Also more book bans than we have seen in decades.
Like cutting off funding to programs and missions unilaterally and not going through a process that allows those programs and missions to defend themselves or explain what the funding does?
This was not an oopsie. This was an instruction received loud and clear by the intended audience
Newfie?
Lmfao
[a cis male?](https://youtu.be/4G6UBxyE46o?feature=shared)
I love how someone calling Elon a man who is Comfortable In his own Skin, (C.I.S.) triggering to him.
He’s telling everyone who he wants to be like…. Believe him.
Free speech absolutist /s
Bruh it’s binary fuck
Because that’s what dictators do. Censor the media and all critics of the regime. He also stepped up the persecution of the Jews and communists
