Erik Uden 🚩Sep 1, 2023

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

Elon Musk Silent on Man Sentenced to Death for His Tweets

The incident is the latest test of the limits of Elon Musk's support for free speech.

Newsweek
Show threadYeekasooseSep 1, 2023

@ErikUden

Anyone who believes Musk bought Twitter to promote free speech is downright delusional. The opposite is true.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩Sep 1, 2023

@Yeekasoose I find this situation so funny because people like us precisely predicted what was gonna happen, all alt-right trolls and frozen peaches thought Musk would save the world or some shit, then precisely what we predicted happened, and somehow we're still the delusional ones.

So, yeah, you can't help Musk fans. To a degree I'm extremely thankful for Musk to exist, because it's just another easy filter for whose opinion to ignore. It's such an instant idiot indicator that it makes conversing with people a lot easier. You think Musk is awesome? How about we never talk again? Heh

Show threadYeekasoose

@ErikUden

Never ceases to amaze me how many of the fanboys copied his pivot to the far right without as much as a second thought.

Sep 1, 2023 at 2:23pmWeb