> think of Musk buying Twitter and calling himself a "free speech absolutist" .....

cruzcampo · 2025-05-01T09:37:19 1746092239

That is my understanding as well. However, the move was widely taken at face value and lauded around here. So why are self-proclaimed free speech champions censoring speech?

rsynnott · 2025-05-01T11:06:35 1746097595

> However, the move was widely taken at face value and lauded around here.

That is because this website contains a lot of credulous idiots. It was by no means _universally_ lauded here, though.