For $6 Million a year, fuck yeah I'd consider it myself. You don't even look bad if you fuck it up because the world's richest fuckwit outshines every possible fuck up every step of the way.

Let’s be real, you’re at X because you’re on a visa and can’t leave without being kicked out of the country.

Yep, it's like it's her generously compensating job compels her or something.

Who'd have thunk it?

(For real though, what did people expect her to say?)

honestly I'd do it.

Don’t pretend you wouldn’t for that paycheque

They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

... with a bonus of a few billion.

He owns a major social network and his remarks are regularly repeated in the press. Who or what is harming his free speech? The constitutional right to free speech is protection from the government punishing someone. The advertisers are exercising their right to be associated or not with what happens on “X”.

Elon is not free speech, he regularly bans, fires or bullies anyone that disagrees with or makes fun of him.

Elon is free to say or agree with whatever wild point of view he chooses and advertisers are free to decide they don’t want their brand associated with that kind of take. That isn’t a free speech issue, it’s the free market that Elon pretends to love in action.

He doesn’t want free speech, he wants consequence free speech which has never been a thing.

If you look at musjs actions, he shuts down speech he doesn't like. He is only a proponent of free speech that benefits him.

I agree, minority voices should be able to freely say what they want. Nobody has the right to force others to listen, though.

The principle of free speech is good, but it too has limits. Musk is not a proponent of free speech and Twitter is no longer useful for activists or political organisation. Probably why the totalitarian governments invested in it. To shut down that type of use.

I am a huge proponent of free speech personally, and I exercise it regularly. However, I do not believe it is a right to be able to force your speech into places it is not wanted.

Free speech should also include other people's right to be free from your speech, if they so wish. It is not a right to force your speech onto others against their will.

In actual fact, it is only one thing, and that's the letter of the law. Congress shall make no law that infringes. It says nothing about corporations or individuals, who have the right to do as they wish. And frankly, if you want to fuck up some corporations, we'd probably be happy to help with that. Don't listen to conservatives trying to say woke is censorship. It's a lot more complicated than that, as usual.

Feel free to pm me a reply if you'd like to have your say, but rather not engage in public.

Entirely sure that lgbtqia people were actively silenced despite "free speech" laws in America and were arrested and beaten plenty for it

Fwiw, you got my up vote for contributing an honest opinion to the thread. Totally excellent in that regard.

Where I disagree is in thinking that muskrat is making decisions based on a moral compass defending free speech. He will gladly suppress speech he doesn't like, given a chance.

I would also point you towards the so called tolerance "paradox". There must be limits to what is tolerated, or the whole thing breaks down. And that's coming from someone that's pretty damn tolerant of extreme speech as a matter of principle. But the truth is that musk has free speech. He has publicly made statements, and has not received governmental interference in his ability to say dumb shit. Nor have any of the idiots spewing bigoted rhetoric.

I will also exercise my free speech and say that I will gladly put my foot up the ass of anyone that says the same shit as musk approved of in my presence. Freedom of speech does not equate freedom from consequences of speech. That includes my preference for kicking the shit out of bigots, advertisers backing away, etc.

Edit: I would also encourage anyone finding this to go and upvote the person I'm responding to. They made a comment in good faith, that was on topic and honest. That should be an opportunity to have a good conversation about it, no matter how many times it's been covered before. It's an important conversation to repeat. The boundaries of one of the core human rights (that of freedom of speech/expression) is too important to not merit repeated discussion.

Never pity a CEO. Ever. They make a quarter of a million doing less than you with only a golden parachute.

I don't. She took the job and got that shit sandwich all to herself.

Nobody put a gun to her head to take this gig, she knew or should have known what she was getting into.