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You can't criticize Elon on X...

Lol, is this statement serious ? People are openly calling out for his assassination on X, calling him any number of insults, etc.

Elon literally said:

"Criticizing me all day long is totally fine"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

Another lie in the long list of lies from his mouth.

Have you been on Twitter recently? 50% of it loves Musk, the other 50% openly hate him and abuse him. If what people on here are saying was true, those accounts publicly insulting him would be blocked by now.

Except that... They are? Of course not all of them, but those with enough reach or power to truly harm his reputation - such as journalists investigating him. He's not disappearing "Mark0394893838444" for saying "Musk is a dummy lol" but what does that proves?

Meanwhile Musk has already banned the accounts of journalists for the crime of being too critical of him (on top of frivolous lawsuits clearly aimed at draining their money). The proof is not "how many people he hasn't banned" but "how many he has".

> but what does that proves?

That proves that its ok to criticise Musk on Twitter/X, which is what the OP was denying.

All the people he banned for criticizing him say otherwise.

People keep saying this yet there are countless people on X critisizing Musk freely, so it must be fine to criticise Musk on X. I can provide examples and already have done. Can you?

If I pretend to be fine with people criticizing me, that claims fails as soon as I block/ban/throttle one (1) person for doing that.

As long as criticism was 100% the reason for the ban and can be proved it wasnt related to anything else at all.

An impossibly high bar. So we just take people at their word then?

How does the justice system work in figuring out these things?

A nice dodge, given that Twitter is completely non-transparent as for the reasons of a ban - not to say anything about throttling/shadowbanning.

You are using Musk as a source to defend Musk. Do you realize why that's not a good source?

No not in this case. Im using a quote from Musk to defend something someone made up about him. Theres no conflict of truth because theirs was an opinion, mine is a fact.

Heres a random post from X wishing he could shoot Musk and his kid

https://x.com/cerpin415/status/1889763808874258448

What part of this is not allowed on X?

Not only can you criticize him, but he gets hit with community notes just like everybody else

You don't use X much do you?

Of course, since I was banned for criticizing Elon Musk.

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