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Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has very quickly shown that the word “absolutist” means something very different to him. Since purchasing the social media giant for $44 billion in October, Musk has banned people he doesn’t like, let extremists back onto the platform, and driven the value of the company into the ground.
With Musk’s company teetering on collapse, the billionaire stepped down and announced the hiring of a new CEO. Musk has since toned down his inflammatory Twitter trolling—but there seems to be more going on under the hood at Twitter. On Thursday, Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of the lower-tier right-wing media outlet Daily Wire, released a 16-tweet thread saying that Twitter was canceling free speech.
Fealty to billionaire libertarians means you are subject to the whims of billionaire libertarians. Face, meet leopard!
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