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Elon Musk's claimed commitment to free speech at Twitter follows years of stifling criticism at Tesla and SpaceX, including those trying to unionize

If Elon Musk is able to take over Twitter Inc., his biggest promise is to transform it into a platform for free speech with few restrictions …

Bloomberg

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  • @mr_james_c James Clark on x
    It's weird that people see this as some form of gotcha. Tesla is a car and electric power company and SpaceX is a rocket company. Neither of these claim to be global platforms professing to be places where people come together to exchange information. https://twitter.com/...
  • @mehdirhasan Mehdi Hasan on x
    “When the thin-skinned Musk is on the receiving end of speech he doesn't like, he uses his power as world's richest man to retaliate and try and suppress that speech.” On @MaddowBlog, I debunked the myth of Elon Musk, “free speech absolutist”. Receipts: https://twitter.com/...
  • @sandibachom Sandi Bachom on x
    Ask people who work for Tesla what they think about Musk buying Twitter you know it means he's going to bring back Trump because that's free speech. He just wants to buy it for his ego and then destroy it. after the election I was in the press pool of Trump. Musk visited
  • @jdcocchiarella Jack Cocchiarella on x
    Elon Musk claims to love free speech until the speech is about unionizing Tesla.
  • @moreperfectus @moreperfectus on x
    Elon Musk fired pro-union Tesla workers and was disciplined by the NLRB for violating workers' right to organize. He silences workers in his factory every day, but we're sure he'd be a champion for free speech if he owned Twitter.
  • @rbreich Robert Reich on x
    Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist.” He says Trump shouldn't be kicked off Twitter because tech companies shouldn't be the “arbiter of free speech.” Yet he routinely silences critics — both on Twitter and in the Tesla workplace.