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How is that unethical? X is Musk's toy to do with as he pleases. You as a user of X need to understand that he has absolutely no responsibility to you as a user.



> How is that unethical? X is Musk's toy to do with as he pleases.

I offer that that rights aren't ethics. Musk has a reasonable right to censor speech on his platform that he doesn't agree with.

However, when someone establishes themselves as a free speech absolutist, it is arguably unethical for them to remove, suppress and continually work to eliminate speech they disagree with.


Any time there are consequences to actions, the matter of ethics arises. The very act of making decisions that have consequences demands responsibility. This is the reality of being human.

Whether you or anyone else organize consequences as meaningful or not is a moral abdication. The first thing an immoral person does is justifying the consequences of their actions as inconsequential. This happens to such a degree that doing so is a signal of immorality. Immorality doesn't look like choosing evil, it looks like choosing inconsequentialism.


(Regina George voice) So you agree? There are no “user protections” on X?


Your statement is basically “might makes right”, which is antithetical to ethics.




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