It's fucking abysmal. Dumbest Elon moment since he called that navy diver a pedophile.
I bet he saw symbol, assumed it was /pol/ shitpost material (which, let's face it, that's what it first looks like to an uninitiated westerner), and had Kanye yeeted.
Then he learns LATER what the symbol is, and rather than admit his prior ignorance about the nature of the symbol, he doubles down his mistakes and pathetically fumbles around for some other justification and ends up unwittingly bumbling straight into the standard shitlib position of 'poster's intention doesn't matter, the feelings of the offended matter'.
Claiming the reason he kept AJ banned was because "My child died and anyone who exploits children for personal gain deserves no mercy." was dumber than this. Completely emotional tripe with no logic.
One could also argue the pedo comment wasn't even that dumb. It was a naked power play and entirely successful. Yeah he got some shade over it but the final message was clear - Don't fuck with me or I'll defame and destroy you by any means necessary.
It's the symbol a frenchmen said was on an alien space ship that took him to meet Jesus, Moses, Mohammed and Buddha. He founded a religion based on this on this claim that has a small but global following.
It's precisely the sort of new-age hippy shit you'd expect from a boomer.
They get accused of anti-semitism for the symbol, despite it being rather obvious (to me at least) that the guy chose to combine those two symbols because he wanted to unify literally everyone, even nazis and jews, under one idea.
It's unironically a pozzed globohomo-adjacent cult, but dipshits see a swastika and freak out. lol.
Congratulations for digging up this weird bit of history. It's like an inevitable development after the secular trashing of Christianity. No God? Venerate UFOs.
Yet people on the patriots site were praising him for buying twitter, saying it'd spark huge change. If a guy makes all of his money shilling out things solely used by lefties, gains a ton of power from a belief being shilled by the lefties ("climate change means we need more electric vehicles/solar power"), and whose only contribution to the other side is allowing the unbanning of someone who never wanted to use his platform again, that doesn't make him for the right. At best that makes him a fence-sitter a la tim poole and jordan peterson.
Musk lied when he called himself a free-speech "absolutist."
The term is unnecessary anyway--you either have free speech or you don't; there are no gradations. Pretty obviously, free speech is being restricted here in the US almost everywhere it makes any difference, despite the best efforts of a renegade here and there, and Musk ain't one of 'em..
I honestly don't believe any of his justifications. Probably did it as another means to stay perpetually in the headlines and this is a convenient explanation.
Elon Musk has become the king of Twitter. He gets to decide who on Twitter is banned based on his personal whims.
I think arbitrary standards are awful but what can we really do about it?
Kanye purposely said as many incendiary comments as he possibly could during the Alex Jones interview. He achieved the feat of making Alex Jones uncomfortable in an interview.
Kanye has singlehandedly done more to hurt the cause of freedom of speech than anyone else in the last month.
I think Musk banned him over the interview not that stupid image.
Having Kanye on a social platform is clearly a liability for any owner.
Freedom of speech is already under attack from all sides and Kanye like the retard he is decides to purposely stir the pot.
My point is that Kanye has become a lightning rod for every anti-free speech group in the world.
Kanye unnecessarily said provokingly offensive comments which does makes it that much harder to promote free speech.
There is no value in Kanye's obscene comments about the mustached man.
Musk knows keeping Kanye's account active only makes his life harder when it comes to avoiding payment processors and banks canceling Twitter or some agency regulation of Twitter.
It is tough to be a free speech absolutist these days when you have complete retards like Kanye stirring shit.
There is no value in Kanye's obscene comments about the mustached man.
Kanye is insane. That is the problem and that is why he says stuff like that.
Musk knows keeping Kanye's account active only makes his life harder when it comes to avoiding payment processors and banks canceling Twitter or some agency regulation of Twitter.
I quite doubt that. Payment processors aren't going to cancel a company as large as Twitter. I think he just got offended by the comments. Musk is a loose cannon, after all.
Like Sallust said: most people do not want to be free, they just want fair masters. We're at the point where 'being free' is not even on the menu, so Musk as a vastly fairer master than before is definitely something to be happy about.
It is tough to be a free speech absolutist these days when you have complete retards like Kanye stirring shit.
I disagree. So what if he does say he likes Hitler? That this should be allowed would not even have been controversial in 2014 GG, but they have moved the goalposts so far that even our view has been skewed.
Kanye has singlehandedly done more to hurt the cause of freedom of speech than anyone else in the last month.
Back in reality, normies are starting to talk about imbalances in speech and treatment regarding certain groups of people, about Jews and blacks more generally, both negative and positive, and they're realizing that even expressions about actual unconditional love are taboo under the current climate.
Because of Ye.
So, freedom of speech was damaged not by Kanye, but by all the bullshit that came before him, and everyone knows it. Throw in the revelations from Twitter about censorship, and Ye just tore down the cardboard curtains they hung on the windows.
'I got buttmad so it shouldn't be on twitter.'
Dude is no different to the shitlibs. He's committed to free speech until he gets offended, just like everyone he fired.
Bet he didn't even know what the fucking symbol was before he nuked it. I'm almost certain, in fact.
Yep. This is the best hero the sane side have at the moment.
Jesus wept.
It's fucking abysmal. Dumbest Elon moment since he called that navy diver a pedophile.
I bet he saw symbol, assumed it was /pol/ shitpost material (which, let's face it, that's what it first looks like to an uninitiated westerner), and had Kanye yeeted.
Then he learns LATER what the symbol is, and rather than admit his prior ignorance about the nature of the symbol, he doubles down his mistakes and pathetically fumbles around for some other justification and ends up unwittingly bumbling straight into the standard shitlib position of 'poster's intention doesn't matter, the feelings of the offended matter'.
This guy is the BEST we've fucking got.
Jesus wept, indeed. We're fucking screwed.
Claiming the reason he kept AJ banned was because "My child died and anyone who exploits children for personal gain deserves no mercy." was dumber than this. Completely emotional tripe with no logic.
One could also argue the pedo comment wasn't even that dumb. It was a naked power play and entirely successful. Yeah he got some shade over it but the final message was clear - Don't fuck with me or I'll defame and destroy you by any means necessary.
Wait- what was the significance of that symbol?
It's an older symbol for Raëlism, a generally harmless, if kooky, UFO cult/religion that popped up in the 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism
It's the symbol a frenchmen said was on an alien space ship that took him to meet Jesus, Moses, Mohammed and Buddha. He founded a religion based on this on this claim that has a small but global following.
It's precisely the sort of new-age hippy shit you'd expect from a boomer.
They get accused of anti-semitism for the symbol, despite it being rather obvious (to me at least) that the guy chose to combine those two symbols because he wanted to unify literally everyone, even nazis and jews, under one idea.
It's unironically a pozzed globohomo-adjacent cult, but dipshits see a swastika and freak out. lol.
Think about how much better it is now that he's in charge.
Jesus is bawling his eyes out over that one.
From the bottom of one slope, to the top of the next one. Skiing season is open!
The only ones on the sane side are going to be loose cannons who don't care about what other people think.
That's a good thing as well as a bad thing.
and a necessary thing.
of course he knew
raelism undermines the structure of worldly control these demon elites worship, which is a fallen EL
Raelism proposes that the true ELs are going to return and kick their asses
Ye got out of the matrix and is trying to redpill everyone in the process
Congratulations for digging up this weird bit of history. It's like an inevitable development after the secular trashing of Christianity. No God? Venerate UFOs.
Elon is quite reddit-tier in his understanding of morality, human nature, and politics.
He's a physics and math guy I guess. He maybe didn't bother to read any philosophy, religious texts, or much ancient history.
or he's covering for getting a phone call and being told what to do.
Yet people on the patriots site were praising him for buying twitter, saying it'd spark huge change. If a guy makes all of his money shilling out things solely used by lefties, gains a ton of power from a belief being shilled by the lefties ("climate change means we need more electric vehicles/solar power"), and whose only contribution to the other side is allowing the unbanning of someone who never wanted to use his platform again, that doesn't make him for the right. At best that makes him a fence-sitter a la tim poole and jordan peterson.
So posting "Love Everyone" is violent, but posting about punching people is fine, got it.
Pathological Masonic Reality Inversion Disorder is the real pandemic.
"Your symbols are violence, my desire for violence is free speech."
Makes you wonder why the swastika is always banned and never the hammer and sickle.
If that's all it takes for him to lose his tiny mind then he needs to take a step back from making day to day decisions on twatter.
So a different flavor of buttmad trigger-happy censor is in charge. Pathetic.
Musk lied when he called himself a free-speech "absolutist."
The term is unnecessary anyway--you either have free speech or you don't; there are no gradations. Pretty obviously, free speech is being restricted here in the US almost everywhere it makes any difference, despite the best efforts of a renegade here and there, and Musk ain't one of 'em..
I honestly don't believe any of his justifications. Probably did it as another means to stay perpetually in the headlines and this is a convenient explanation.
Wait, I saw this before. It's a classic!
Elon Musk has become the king of Twitter. He gets to decide who on Twitter is banned based on his personal whims.
I think arbitrary standards are awful but what can we really do about it?
Kanye purposely said as many incendiary comments as he possibly could during the Alex Jones interview. He achieved the feat of making Alex Jones uncomfortable in an interview.
Kanye has singlehandedly done more to hurt the cause of freedom of speech than anyone else in the last month.
I think Musk banned him over the interview not that stupid image.
Having Kanye on a social platform is clearly a liability for any owner.
Freedom of speech is already under attack from all sides and Kanye like the retard he is decides to purposely stir the pot.
This was a shitshow.
No, that would be the ADL or Johnathan Greenblatt if I had to narrow it down.
Why? Is something bad going to get done to the platform because of the things Kanye is saying?
My point is that Kanye has become a lightning rod for every anti-free speech group in the world.
Kanye unnecessarily said provokingly offensive comments which does makes it that much harder to promote free speech.
There is no value in Kanye's obscene comments about the mustached man.
Musk knows keeping Kanye's account active only makes his life harder when it comes to avoiding payment processors and banks canceling Twitter or some agency regulation of Twitter.
It is tough to be a free speech absolutist these days when you have complete retards like Kanye stirring shit.
It seems like the problem is the censors, not the censored speech, no?
Kanye is insane. That is the problem and that is why he says stuff like that.
I quite doubt that. Payment processors aren't going to cancel a company as large as Twitter. I think he just got offended by the comments. Musk is a loose cannon, after all.
Like Sallust said: most people do not want to be free, they just want fair masters. We're at the point where 'being free' is not even on the menu, so Musk as a vastly fairer master than before is definitely something to be happy about.
I disagree. So what if he does say he likes Hitler? That this should be allowed would not even have been controversial in 2014 GG, but they have moved the goalposts so far that even our view has been skewed.
That's it. If you think somebody is talking shit, point out in a clear, rational way why they are wrong to think the way they do.
Unlikely. This will all be buried and forgotten soon.
This is only true because those in control of censorship will use this as a pretext for more of it.
Back in reality, normies are starting to talk about imbalances in speech and treatment regarding certain groups of people, about Jews and blacks more generally, both negative and positive, and they're realizing that even expressions about actual unconditional love are taboo under the current climate.
Because of Ye.
So, freedom of speech was damaged not by Kanye, but by all the bullshit that came before him, and everyone knows it. Throw in the revelations from Twitter about censorship, and Ye just tore down the cardboard curtains they hung on the windows.
Lot of libertarian retards looking for something to get mad about here today.