“I’ll concede that loving freedom of speech is a specific viewpoint”
That article asserts that “Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends.” But The Onion’s desire to purchase the account that Infowars stuffed with speech over the years is all about stifling its specific viewpoint. The Onion has its own X account, but it wants the place that Infowars built up so it can stomp out that speech — rewrite it into a parody of itself. It could do that parody on a newly created account and thus give us more speech, more debate.
So who’s more against freedom of speech here? It seems to me that X is protecting it.
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X’s Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts
