Care to share the sources that Elon fought those countries? Because the Wikipedia list of Twitter censorship shows that X complied with the majority requests from those countries.
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The European Commission offered an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
X did not.
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-- sent from the front seat of my FSD-based unmanned Robotaxi
I know 2024 was like a century ago though so its ok to have already forgotten! It's probably more notable event for Bluesky than Twitter at this point either way. But also either way: there is a clear contrast here with the OP article.
Either you are going out of your way to unban guys, or going out of your way to (effectively) ban them. I think its uncontroversial at the very least to note that he does seem to be making it incredibly hard to argue against the evidence of ideological commitment here, even if there are some 3D chess players out there who can maybe still see a "free speech" forest through the political trees.
> civil war is inevitable
as the owner of a key media platform in the world that sort of statement is indefensible.
He's also picked a side in Germany by weighing in with as much support as possible for AfD.
Don't pick this as a hill to die on, that man isn't worth it.
He tried to bribe one party to accept an extremist as a member in return for a huge bribe, and he failed.
He does not seem to have much influence on public opinion.
I do not think its accurate to say he was fighting countries either. He was trying to buy influence. Its not the same thing.
As an example: there is significant power in cultivating the default UK experience of twitter for new accounts, which he's already had significant impact on by culling Twitter's internal moderation team. I've experienced it myself and its a an absolute disaster zone of disinformation and bot accounts trying to stoke internal divisions.
What are you talking about? Are you making up strawmen?
