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This may just be a quirk of how this sentence was written, but wouldn't ensuring agreeable views that were once removed not count towards enlarging the marketplace of ideas? It may never be totally free, but he doesn't seem to be contracting what can be in the marketplace.
> It's because he's enlarging exactly one segment, his own political views.
We'll see, but I think that a lot of people narcissisticly project beliefs on Musk that are exactly the opposite of things that they would like to see (and did see) censored (and a lot of fanboys who do the opposite.) Neither Trump, Musk or Putin are symbols meant to equally and oppositely oppose all that you support; you actually have to look up their opinions on things to have an accurate view of the world, rather than simply assume that they designed their opinions to be the opposite of yours. They don't know you.
"Always accuse your enemy of exactly what you are doing"
Everyone gets to complain, it's just that "The first amendment!!!" is a bad argument.
E: Phone keyboard moment
They were banned for undeniable, crystal-clear breaches of their terms of service.
Is Musk going to allow child porn, inciteful content, doxxing ? This is an unwindable situation.
Making fun of a public figure should unquestionably be allowed.
Those who were most banned were their political opposition. This isn't even questionable. Undercover video proves it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TexDrY6AlAw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64gTjdUrDFQ
Is he banning left wing accounts? Is there any evidence of what you say?
I'm willing to bet these things stay banned. Because despite self describing as a free speech absolutist, he's really not comfortable being absolute about this belief.
He's not a free speech absolutist, he's just making room for his personal ideology. He doesn't need to ban leftists to achieve his goal of pushing them off the platform.
The only reason its framed this way is since the comment I originally replied to disagrees with Musk. If he was coming in and doubling down on Twitter's choices it would suddenly stop being ideology.
Elon rolling in and being like, "Unban these people even though they've broken the rules" is clearly a different mode.
Presumably is doing some heavily lifting here. But either way, my point stands why isn't it "group ideology". Simply because it was made by committee doesn't change the connotation used.
If someone opposed to Musk's views later takes control of twitter and restores everything to the current status quo, will that also be done using "personaly ideology"?
If Elon sells to, I dunno, Zizek, and sudden changes occur, of course I'd say the new leftist leaders were enforcing their personal ideology.
Is it so hard to believe that someone can be a leftist and not also critical of the left? A dictator is a dictator, and it's bad, no matter their ideology.
Musk is a dictator now? Why does everybody have to be the next Hitler?
My friends, engineers at Twitter, are saying they received demands they work overnight to deliver features and changes last night.
He's absolutely a dictator within Twitter.
Pretty extreme example but pretty sure aiding terrorists runs afoul of some US laws...
> He doesn't need to ban leftists to achieve his goal of pushing them off the platform.
Seems like they're the ones who don't believe in free speech. They can stay, no?
Explaining how to make a sniper from a commercial rifle and how to find 5.56 AP from military surplus got a friend banned from FB. It was either that or the following post about a chemical company CEO car plates and usual tour. Luckily he lives deep into the woods, so according to him (through his friends), FBI agents waited for three days near his postal box before just leaving a mail asking him for an audition. Didn't get charged, but lost his FB account. It made organizing my trip to the US hell, as Messenger was at the tine the best way to reach him.
I'm still bummed to have learned that despite the lower killing potential, the NRA still don't fight for sniper rifles and commercial true AP rounds (you can still get AP for rifle with a lead core, which will go through bodyarmor btw, but nothing to go through a Limo :/). It feels like it goes against the second amendment.
Leaving twitter would just mean FOMO on all the stuff that people were getting away with saying.
I'll bite.
What makes Musk "right wing"?
I get that he has some publicly stated positions that are counter to the prevailing positions of the Democratic Party, but I can't think of any that I would consider "right wing". In fact, I can't think of any that would have been out of place for a Democrat in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
He has self-defined long ago as left-wing. Not surprising given he lived in california and started an electric car company. Though in many interviews he tried to assert his position is far less on the left-right spectrum. Which is really the global way it works, it only works this way in the usa.
But he had a post recently.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519735033950470144
You can see he self-defined himself here left of center in 2008; but in 2021 he's more right of center. His assertion isn't that he changed but rather the left-wing changed. How he ended up on the right-wing isn't very relevant to the point which identifies him as right-wing.
The context however of why the left has moved so far left has everything to do with socialism dying worldwide. The person you were responding to has a username of socialism. So what he sees from his far-left position is someone on the far right equivalent and this is why they must hate elon.
The left haven't moved anywhere, the world did, and the right was left behind, only to reinvent themselves with xenophobic populism just in time to take advantage of the many challenges we are facing.