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2024-12-27 10:04:05
Honestly, this is hilarious on some level. To anyone with average intelligence it was clear from the beginning that Elon is not for free speech.
# Up until today
Here is are the major impediments to free speech on X the every platform as to my knowledge:
- Banning the account that tracks Elons private jet. It is kind of understandable on a human level but this was the first sign that there is no free speech on X. There is no compromise, there isn't even a slippery slope: either there is free speech or there is not. It should also be noted that accounts that track Taylor Swifts jet ARE STILL UP! Hypocrisy.
- Banning the word "cisgender". Even if you're a rightwing "anti-woke" culture warrior I expect you to acknowledge that any compromises to free speech are destroying all free speech, including the ones one does not agree with
# Yesterday night
I do not think that freedom of speech is freedom of reach. But I do consider what happened tonight a wakeup call for everyone who is still in denial. Major impediments to reach until yesterday were afaik only on broad strokes on liberal and leftist accounts and maybe a few people personally like probably Grimes and Ron Desantis. Major impediments to reach as of today:
- Laura Loomer personally and a forceful removal of all her paid subscribers 
- "The conservative OG" had their organization badge removed, all accounts associated lost their blue check reach multiplier (they are still paying tho)
- Speculative: I suspect but do not know for sure that accounts associated with the VC or tech scene got a malus now. If it's the same malus or a softer one than liberal/leftist have is unclear. Maybe Twitter engineers have programmed a whole system for manual malus factors now.
- Individually suspended accounts:  It seems like Elon personally was angered yesterday night with a few people ratioing him personally and they got a ban personally.
# Conclusion
You do not get free speech just because it's "your guy" who's in charge. A digital town square must not centralized. It could consist of multiple plattforms (e.g. Fediverse) or one decentralized plattform (e.g. Nostr). But it cannot be one plattform.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/825944