Summary
Elon Musk is accused of censoring right-wing accounts on X after at least 14 conservative users who criticised his immigration stance said their blue verification ticks were revoked, restricting their ability to monetize.
Musk, who called anti-immigration Republicans “hateful racists,” has long supported skilled immigration.
Critics allege this violates his “freedom of speech” policy, accusing him of “shadowbanning” dissenters.
The controversy arises amid heated US immigration debates, partly sparked by Donald Trump’s appointment of Indian-born Sriram Krishnan as an AI adviser, a move Musk supported.
“Free SpEeCh”… lol.
He revoked the blue brand label from their account.
Its literally digital class system.
Everyone not on the platform doesn’t exist. (Technical censorship)
Do not question your god king or you will end your days as one of the poor, or worse you’ll be vanished.
It’s digital feudalism.
He also canceled people’s subscription to the targeted accounts and reduced the visibility of any account that gets blocked or muted by a number of accounts with larger follower counts.
For President Musk, speech is free as long it agrees with him.
It’s simple really. If it doesn’t agree with him, that’s not speech, that’s just a barbarian’s gibberish. So the free speech is clearly preserved. Clearly.
What’s amusing is that I’ve seen Nazis on the 'net openly state that there will be “peace” if everyone bows to white supremacy and lets fascism rule, that is. They say the same thing about “free speech” - they demand free speech for all, mostly themselves, until they seize power. Then all speech must agree with their views…or else.
They openly admit this when they can hide behind nyms and so on. Very interesting how Elon’s behavior on “free speech” more or less maps right onto this. Whines about “free speech” on Xitter before he owns it, then takes ownership, and exercises all kinds of censorship on those he disagrees with.