But his views on ethics and politics are clearly work in progress. At SpaceX and Tesla, he has proven himself a brilliant engineer. This isn’t rocket science – which is a shame because Mr Musk is a rocket scientist. In both cases, pointing to the first amendment gets you nowhere. But in Saudi Arabia and China, on the other hand, following the letter of the free-speech laws will turn the platform into a barren wasteland. In the US, for instance, it most likely means opening the door to look-at-me provocateurs and the far right. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.” Sounds reasonable, but in practice it is unworkable. Take one of the billionaire’s tweets from this week, which reads in part: “By ‘free speech’, I simply mean that which matches the law. The very views that have helped make Mr Musk such a popular user of Twitter (86 million followers and rising) will be useless to him as its owner. It dismayed users and repelled advertisers. Painfully slowly, the platform had finally learned that its policy of letting people say pretty much whatever they liked created an environment that millions didn’t like. It took until December 2017 for the platform to boot off the American Nazi party and other white supremacists, months after the lethal Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. From MPs to female actors in Ghostbusters, the hate brigaders had many targets and met pitifully few obstructions. That was an era in which protesters in the Arab spring tweeted against their authoritarian rulers and when wannabes gained notoriety for directing vile racist and sexist abuse against others often more famous.
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A decade ago, Twitter executives described it as “ the free speech wing of the free speech party”. Put into practice, the website might find itself going back to the future. His position deserves serious examination. In the meantime, can anyone help me figure out the point of Clan Vv3’s little “prank”? They can’t think they’re doing anything to actually hurt the band and/or enlist other bigots to their cause - Mastodon fans will immediately realize something is amiss (no one is going to accuse the band of actually being racist), and impressionable young admirers won’t think, “Oh, Mastodon hate the blacks and the Jews and the gays, I should hate the blacks and the Jews and gays, too.” Clan Vv3’s actions might be the very definition of “pointless trolling.A nnouncing his £35bn ($44bn) acquisition of Twitter this week, Elon Musk made a typically sweeping claim: “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.” The self-described “free speech absolutist” now owns a platform where those views will probably shape the experience of its 400 million users and possibly wider society.
I’m not entirely clear why, if they still have some access to the account, Mastodon has yet to delete these tweets. In the case of MetalSucks, our Facebook and Twitter accounts are linked, so whatever we post on FB also shows up on Twitter I thought this might be what’s going on with Mastodon, too, but a quick glance at their Facebook page shows this isn’t the case.ĪNYWAY, presumably this will all be cleared up soon.
“High Road” is featured on the “Today’s Heavy Rock” playlist on Listen here: Somewhat oddly, it would also seem that Mastodon - or whomever it is that runs Mastodon’s Twitter account - is/are still sending out legitimate messages as well: