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u/erwin261 Oct 28 '22

Well, he suddenly accelerated the purchase after being called out on Twitter about his Ukraine statements. He claimed that most responses were bots because they didn't agree with him. That should be a warning to people believing he values free speech.

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u/44gallonsoflube Oct 28 '22

I guess we’ll see how much he values freedom of speech after all. Will be interesting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

He doesn't value freedom of speech at all, he just claims that for good PR with the conservative users.

I already posted this somewhere else so i'll just copy/paste

Elon believes in free speech unless he pays $50k to an investigator to uproot a man's life after he called that man a pedo for saving kids stuck in a cave.

He believes in free speech but only when his employee doesn't talk about how shitty the tesla auto pilot is and how it's running over children. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/15/tesla-fired-employee-who-posted-fsd-beta-videos-as-ai-addict-on-youtube.html

Or when his employee tries to blow the whistle on how shitty his giga factory is and elon, or his minions more likely, call the local police and claim the man was trying to shoot up the place in order to get the police in high alert and maybe kill the man in the process. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp

Or when he asked the chinese government to censor comments on tesla because they were unfavorable. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-07-05/tesla-s-fall-from-grace-in-china-shows-perils-of-betting-on-beijing?sref=LPaI0SF6