So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

https://lemmy.world/post/14380797

So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post - Lemmy.World

This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it. They want to silence online discussions of climate change and other left wing topics.

Combined with Reddit being owned by Tencent, Facebook being eternally evil, and TikTok being unconducive to any form of coherent dialogue, there are not many places for left wing discourse on the internet anymore.

This seems like further confirmation of that theory that I saw posted on here that the Saudi oil barons funded Elon’s purchase of Twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it.

Then why does it still exist? Musk took Twitter private, they could’ve just pulled the plug if they wanted to.

That terse action would have made mastodon flourish. It had to be gradual.