And what if China requests a tweet removed or user banned and puts a Tesla factory or those sweet tax cuts on the line?
I mean, that's no different from Twitter and other platforms currently operate in terms of how they define hate speech or who they cancel.
I think the point is that while right now, 'unfair' things might happen, perhaps they will become even more uneven in the future, as he exerts more personal sway into what's ok and what's not, rather than attempting to stick to some guidelines.
Exactly -- and I think that's the source of most folks' pre-schadenfreude. A lot of us have been around long enough to have seen "free speech" platforms come and go and this feels no different, so far.
Sure they can. "You take down tweets we don't like, or Tesla loses China as a market, we arrest all the employees currently in China, and take your factories and other assets there".
Can he say "fine"? Sure, technically.