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>opposed to censorship

He's not or rather he's in favor of being able to say anything he wants and shutting up anyone who says what he doesn't like (such as his jet's location or anything he views as woke).




He's opposed to censorship by others, but in favour of censorship by him.

Actually, he's also fine with government censorship as long as they're not censoring him or people he likes. Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over.


Do you have a source for "Twitter obeying government censorship requests have gone way up since he took over"?


Two specific cases I've heard of:

Twitter honoring censorship requests from the Indian government has gone up from 20% to 90%:

* https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...

Musk defended censorship of the Turkish opposition saying he "had no choice". Jimmy Wales disagreed:

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-ena...




It's the GOP mantra: "rules for thee, not for me" - makes complete sense since he's been "unshackled".




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