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I was fine with Twitter pre-Musk banning whomever they liked and I am fine with Twitter post-Musk banning whomever they like. Twitter is not the public square in my opinion and it can control what people can say and who can say it as much as it likes. It can take sides and it can be as transparent or not as it wants. If Musk wants to ban everyone to the left of the secret love child of Thatcher and Reagan that is entirely his prerogative.
Having said that I have derived some little dark amusement at Elon's public free speech absolutist attitude colliding with the reality of a social network, like Wil E. Coyote running into a painted on tunnel. Censorship is a tool and like every tool whether it is good or bad depends on context. I am glad he is learning that censorship is at times a positive thing, because this is an attitude I hold myself. I think a man as smart as Musk should have already learned this lesson a long time ago, but I will take what I can get when people get closer towards my own belief set. He may choose to censor different things than I would in his position but it means in some ways our values are now more closely aligned than before.
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