https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394
But I guess the rules play differently when you are a billionaire, so here we are.
But I guess the rules play differently when you are a billionaire, so here we are.
Even if it wasn't, censorship by an individual or a company is not a crime, are you confused by the first amendment which is a restriction on the government?
X or Musk are not the government.
> While certain restrictions on freedom of expression may be motivated by principles of equality and non-discrimination, “direct and public incitement to genocide” and “advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence” are strictly prohibited under international law, and are considered the “severest forms of hate speech”.
Also no one cares what the UN’s “international law” is. They just all support it or ignore it as convenient, because it means nothing.
But that was only to say, responding to who asked me the original question, that it doesn't matter what I think. I'm not a legislator. What matters is what's enforceable.
*I'm deliberately side-stepping religious law because there's no way to reasonably debate it logically. So this is meant to read "all secular law"
> So you think it's a crime to allow people speak things you don't like?
That was the original question which was clearly designed to trap me in an opinion pitfall. I was making sure I was referencing external sources when responding to that, but nobody seemed willing to take what I wrote in context.
Source: https://www.un.org/en/hate-speech/understanding-hate-speech/...
> He asked our reporter James Clayton for specific examples of hateful content.
> When he couldn't pinpoint individual messages, Mr Musk said: "You don't know what you're talking about… you just lied.
That is hilarious, thanks for the article.
And I don't see examples of crimes committed by X or Musk in there?
Links from the BBC article you appear to have missed: "Antisemitism on Twitter Before and After Elon Musk’s Acquisition"[1] "The Musk Bump: Quantifying the rise in hate speech under Elon Musk"[2]
Additional studies: "Hate Speech Spikes on Twitter After Elon Musk Acquires the Platform" [3] "Auditing Elon Musk’s Impact on Hate Speech and Bots" [4]
1. https://beamdisinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Antisemit...
2. https://counterhate.com/blog/the-musk-bump-quantifying-the-r...
3. https://www.montclair.edu/school-of-communication-and-media/...
> Several fringe characters that were banned under the previous management have been reinstated.
> They include Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, and Liz Crokin, one of the biggest propagators of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
From that same hilarious article.