Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.
  • Tin@beehaw.orgEnglish
    55·
    10 months ago

    I’m starting to think maybe Elon isn’t the ‘free speech absolutist’ he claimed to be.

    • knotthatone@lemmy.oneEnglish
      26·
      10 months ago

      You might have a point there. Maybe… just maybe… this Musk fellow is completely full of shit about most things he says.

          • Troy@lemmy.ca
            2·
            10 months ago

            It’s hard to lie about physics. He can lie about his schedules, or how he treats his employees, but not about thermodynamics. When he’s talking about rockets, he’s historically been fine. This is a good example: https://youtu.be/SA8ZBJWo73E?t=760

            • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
              7·
              10 months ago

              Lol @ thinking Musk has even a basic grasp on the physics that his employees work with. I bet you think he “invented Tesla” too.

            • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
              7·
              10 months ago

              I think this explanation would be more coherent if it was given by one of SpaceX’s competent and underpaid engineers. They clearly did a good job of dumbing it down to Elon’s level of comprehension, so that he could sluggishly regurgitate it to the general public and appear to understand rocket science.

    • agegamon@beehaw.org
      13·
      10 months ago

      Oh sure, he’s an absolutist: Free speech for him and people he likes? Absolutely. Free speech for people he doesn’t like? Absolutely not.

  • UngodlyAudrey🏳️‍⚧️@beehaw.org
    26·
    10 months ago

    Fortunately, Musk walked it back(for now):

    UPDATE 1/9/24: Hours after reporting out this initial story, some of the suspended X accounts returned. X has not explained what happened and the affected account owners have no idea why they were briefly suspended. The reinstatement came after notable users such as George Galloway, a former member of the British Parliament, called out Musk for banning the accounts.

    Of course, anyone who’s still on there should consider leaving… he’s going to continue to pull this shit, and the more people that interact with the platform, the more legitimized it is.

    • Zworf@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      Is it fortunate? It’d be better to press the issue and have all serious media abandon Twitter for good. Now it will keep simmering for longer. Why keep up the pretense?

    • zhunk@beehaw.org
      1·
      10 months ago

      George Galloway was on Big Brother, so he must not really mind the surveillance and abuse.

  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
    22·
    10 months ago

    Don’t worry everyone, this was absolutely an accident; they weren’t supposed to be purged, they were just supposed to be moved to a group where their tweets are de-prioritized and hidden from most people! Someone just included the wrong settings on the group object. /s