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I guess I think censorship by the government to control the narrative is always bad, so I side with Elon on this.
I think it’s often bad, but something like (for example) calling for racial violence shouldn’t be protected. Those doing that have broken the social contract and their actions/speech don’t require tolerance.
I disagree with you but the rationale for your position is pretty clear and I respect such a concern to prevent that violence.
But yeah, that is largely irrelevant to the Brazil question.
He should follow the laws, like he said he would when asked directly about doing so.
So he should assist an undemocratic censorship regime in Brazil? Sounds unprincipled & lame.
At what point can we consider musk a nation state doing his own censorship?
I do respect the concern becuase his censorship on behalf of Israel was very irksome to me.
It totally reinforces some very terrible norms.
Nonetheless... I can't bring myself to cheer anything like this on.
X censors anything that hurts elon's feelings. He just doesn't like it when he's not the one doing the censoring.
I do not like that elon has done some of that stuff in the past, but I support whatever upsets the Brazilian censorship regime.