Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

  • faberyayo@lemm.ee
    259·
    3 days ago

    Wasn’t Elon Musk the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”? Turns out it was the “free speech abolitionist” after all.

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      82·
      3 days ago

      The extreme right wing in the US, has always had things they claim to revere, but don’t actually believe in.

      • Free Speech
      • Free Markets
      • Democracy
      • The Constitution

      Probably more

      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        54·
        3 days ago
        • families
        • children’s safety
        • voting rights
        • the economy
        • the well-being of working class people
        • peace
        • morality
        • women’s safety
        • corruption
        • technology
        • infrastructure
        • religion, in that it is only a tool to further their ends and they will interpret religious scripture at their own discretion and opinion
        • education
        • healthcare

        There’s only two things they do care about, capital and power. They are white supremacists and Christian nationalists second, capitalists and oligarchs first.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        It’s about power. They can lie and get away with it, they can break rules and get away with it.

        Everything they do should be viewed through the lens of power relations and control through power. They will say whatever is worthwhile for them to say to gain more power. That’s it, that’s all, that’s all it’s ever been. Calling them hypocrites does nothing, they love that we get mad about it. Because it means they have power over us.

        To quote a rando from (retch) reddit:

        There’s a russian adage about people dumbfounded by how people will baldfaced lie obvious falsehoods: They don’t lie to deceive you, they lie to INSULT you: it’s a statement “I can insult you this way and you can’t do anything about it”

      • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
        4·
        3 days ago

        They call themselves conservatives, but they’re radicals (the polar opposite) through and through.

    • Sibshops@lemm.eeEnglish
      90·
      3 days ago

      It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.

    • axh@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 days ago

      Apparently free speech absolutist means “absolutely no free speech” according to fElon.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        its the same people whoa re anti-woke, they are the wokest people out there.

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      It still blows my mind that he has this reputation. His OWN damn policy was and still is “Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” Which is blatantly censorship and suppression lol. I cannot grasp how someone could see that and be like “free speech is back!!!”