Judd LegumElon Musk, who claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," is censoring tweets in Turkey ahead of critical elections at the request of the autocrats currently in power
toxtethogrady@juddlegum What "in Turkey"? Because he was never about free speech even here in the US...
Kathryn@juddlegum What is his motivation? Trying not to get thrown out of the country altogether?
DohNut@juddlegum Right after SpaceX (Musk owned) signed a contract to launch a satellite for Turkey.
Yaoi Box Balloon@juddlegum That's our husky Melon!
John Breen@juddlegum The context I like to keep is that Musk gained his greatest leverage from working with Peter Thiel on Paypal. They got a huge payday from that endeavor, for reasons I don't fully understand but I suspect have to do with money laundering and a threat to the established PCI business model.
It only got worse from there.
Musk is not an engineer, innovator, nor role model to anyone with a "soul", as far as I can tell. He needs to be relegated to the trash heap of history, having contributed nothing but taken much himself.
It only got worse from there.
Musk is not an engineer, innovator, nor role model to anyone with a "soul", as far as I can tell. He needs to be relegated to the trash heap of history, having contributed nothing but taken much himself.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47@juddlegum Free speech for the right kind of speech. Sorta like this...
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@jik And when you dig deeper, you find
their bigotry was not censored. They were free to join many easily-accessible forums for racist discussions, but they want to interject themselves into non-racists discussions, and if the non-racists won't have them, they are extremely indignant. @juddlegum
their bigotry was not censored. They were free to join many easily-accessible forums for racist discussions, but they want to interject themselves into non-racists discussions, and if the non-racists won't have them, they are extremely indignant. @juddlegum
Midwest Bob@juddlegum Are you saying Ellonia is not truthful? Oh my goodness. Who would have thought? 🤮He is such a little puke.
estheria 🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🌌@juddlegum does someone have a source/link?
Chris Glass@estheria @juddlegum he literally admitted doing it in a reply to a reporter
@TheChrisGlass @juddlegum I was literally just asking for a source
@estheria @juddlegum Here is the source along with his confirmation
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657422401754259461
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657422401754259461
Andrij Nitrogenesis@juddlegum it's not Elon. it's the government. twitter, even being held by Musk, is still just a propaganda machine and a manipulative pro-left mass media.
Chris Merle@juddlegum that explains why my Twitter search for Erdogan didn’t turn up shit.
Nicole ParsonsErdogan has made Turkey a hub for laundering the proceeds of drug cartels, stolen grain from Ukraine, sanctions busting for Iran & Russia, and tax havens.
Of course Elon Musk helped out his patrons, the Saudi royals.
@Npars01 @juddlegum Erdogan is concerned he might lose the election. Remember, if he does, he already blamed Biden, so thank Biden for liberating Turkey...
Laure#Twitter appeared to limit the reach of investigative news site #Bellingcat days after #ElonMusk suggested its Texas mall shooter investigation was a 'psyop'
Tom Sabourin@juddlegum he's a sociopath, what'd you expect?
Andrew Hinton@juddlegum @Jonathanglick free to the highest bidder
TopKnotComing soon to your local bookstore:
"How to Buy Friends and Influence Authoritarians" by Elon Musk
gavinisdie 
@juddlegum free speech means the opposite of free speech
reprobate@juddlegum Musk really needs to cut his losses and bow out of the political arena. He is proving himself truly to be an idiot with more money then brains.
Samhain Night@juddlegum Edrogan, like Musk, answers to Putin.
IAG@juddlegum "Free speech absolutism" means "I will allow hate speech but ban everything that governments may disagree with"
In unsurprising news, an antidemocratic fascist acts like an antidemocratic fascist.
Predictable and predicted.
Humble Fan of Atty. WooMusk is such a dickhead.
C.Suthorn 
According to ChatGPT the probability that Elon Musk is mentioned sooner and sooner is called Godwin‘s law.
Jaakko Oikarinen-Vasankari@juddlegum So classical liberalism. Pun intended.
Shirley Eugest@juddlegum He would.
Reddog@juddlegum For fascists,free speech only applies to them.
Pino Carafa@juddlegum he's only an "absolutist" as long as he thinks there are profit making straws to clutch at.
Rpsu (326 ppm)@juddlegum Mr. Free Speech [but only to far right and my buddies]
Craig Mcgee@JohnLoader6 @juddlegum knew he was a hypocrit.
MackajHe's also squashing criticism of Trump that refers back to the insurrection. This constitutes hate speech now apparently.
Normal Guy@juddlegum Guess what Musk will do in 2024 U.S. election? 🤔
Kerri Levine@juddlegum Can we say Elon musk is like a step father to Twitter, it’s not that good kind of one.
Christopher@juddlegum As with all free speech absolutists, the only speech they care about or recognize is their own.
xs4me2He should be prosecuted for that…
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@juddlegum Censorship is of course supposed to be in the interest of free speech. 1984 playbook.
ZahmbieND@juddlegum What a true "free speech absolutist" in Musk's position would be doing right now is offering a discount for Starlink access in Turkey (even if Musk has to smuggle the terminals into the country himself), to get as much unrestricted internet access in the country as possible and effectively make it impossible for the Turkish government to block Twitter.
empiricismHe meant his freedom to speak, not others!
Sami Seppo@juddlegum Is it so that people care their egos and gathered exposure on Tweetlandia more than something so vitally essential like democracy and real responsible free speech,
...since a concept of "absolute free speech" is only possible for autocrats within their realm of power.
Only #democracy can provide real #freeSpeech.
4Grand@juddlegum until twitter is ignored he will continue his garbage