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It's about the fact that Elon Musk quickly (eagerly?) submitted to Erdogan's request to censor opposition tweets, whereas Wikipedia fought it all the way to Tur
by mcv 3y ago
It's about the fact that Elon Musk quickly (eagerly?) submitted to Erdogan's request to censor opposition tweets, whereas Wikipedia fought it all the way to Turkey's supreme court.
Elon Musk loves to claim that he's a "free speech" absolutist, but he quite clearly isn't. He supports the "free speech" of autocrats and of the extreme right, but he has no problem obeying censorship requests when they come from right-wing governments, and he proactively censors people and content he simply disagrees with.
The reason he's not fighting Erdogan's censorship request is because he agrees with it. He would fight it if it came from a more progressive government.