Elon Musk Is NOT The Free Speech KING The Right Makes Him Out To Be: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon criticizes the Right for embracing Elon Musk as a way to 'own the libs.'

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[stmlax]

Imagine having a problem with Elon Musk owning Twitter, but being totally fine with Vanguard and Saudi Arabia being the owners

[willskol]

He may not be the ultimate in free speech but he cannot be any worse than Twitter is now.

[JohnTightlips]

Batya literally argued for government control of "free speech" platform and then having the majority say what is acceptable. Yikes.

[christopher]

"Et tu, Batya?" - But seriously Batya, the union and China argument does not apply to what the main concern of Free Speech on Twitter. And Batya, and Briahna, "WHO DO YOU THINK OWNS TWITTER NOW??" Billionaires. Facebook, Billionaires. Youtube, Billionaires. Please spare me.

[bropitt]

Future conversation: Elon "I'm buying Twitter to promote Student Debt "Okay I agree with you then"

[midlet]

It’s not perfect or ideal, but if he does what he says he wants to do it would definitely be better than what it currently is.

[druidathanaric]

A King no. Perhaps a better alternative to the censorship & games played with the company today...? Sure.

[jameswilson]

When every news "show" has the same diatribe. It looks like a corporation is telling them what to say.

[taylorlibby]

No one ever said Musky was a free speech "king" (what's up with leftists crowning people btw?), we just said he wasn't the absolute gaggle of vicious hypocrites about the subject that y'all are.

[JohnTightlips]

Wow this is a pathetic take on Musk. Grasping at straws. He fired people for speaking negatively about the company they work for.... yeah that happens. Was it illegal? These are pathetic arguments.

[JohnTightlips]

Batya is hysterical over some of the smallest aspects of Musk. And then uses arguments that the right have been bring up for years and then acts like they are super important now. Please spare me the crocodile tears. The freak out is hilarious though.

[oregoneyes]

He pledges to make the content algorithms public. By itself, that would be huge.

[formliy]

Sorry Briahna, Batya, and the rest of the activist left, but YOU made him the "free speech king." That side of politics embraced censorship and cancel culture so much that the possibility of someone like Elon owning it is a welcomed change for everyone else! If all he does is make the algorithms public, that would be enough to end a lot of the BS we put up with now. I hope he gets it.

As far as the argument of "we can't let one person own the town square" goes, it's a insane stance. A single person controlling twitter vs a handful of other elites controlling it isn't much of a difference. What matters is their views on free speech. Parag Agrawal has said he DOESN'T prioritize free speech where Elon Musk is for it. I'll take Elon. If the left doesn't like that, well... They should have thought about that before they became authoritarians.

[SEANMCAD]

its deflection to talk about if Elon is really a free speech adovcate or not.

The focus needs to be very simply 'which camp is wrong when it comes to adovcating more free speech on Twitter specifcally and why is it not alarming that such a question even is debated'? peroid..full stop.

[eyeballengineering]

When you get mad at Elon for paying the kid $50, 000 to not track his airplane, perhaps you should imagine someone tracking your car throughout the day. Every day. Posting it for millions to see. With this bother your sense of security? Your sense of privacy? Would you be willing to pay that person to quit if you had the money to do so? Is that standpoint anti-free speech? These absolute leaps of logic have lost you any credibility to me.

[russellsmith]

If you find yourself standing on the side opposite the first amendment, then we're standing opposed.

[Hannahsunshine-]

Is it really that crazy to want to silence someone who is basically stalking you and posting your location everywhere you go? Lol i can understand the union busting argument but trying to pay someone who is posting publicly about your every move for a little bit of privacy isn't that big of a deal.

[JP-xqfo]

I say we just get rid of Twitter entirely

[eyeballengineering]

"he's been the most compliant billionaire" wow. Really? No bias in that.. .. . .

[jodihouts]

I don't use twitter but about half of my news is about twitter. Which isn't even real. Strange world we live in. I like Musk because he actually does something, even if that something is organizing other people to DO something.