Elon Musk’s Twitter is caving to government censorship, just like he promised

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We don’t know if Musk knew Twitter was blocking links to a BBC documentary in India, but it seems clear he doesn’t care.

to a request for comment from lawyer David Freiheit. “It is not possible for me to fix every aspect of Twitter worldwide overnight, while still running Tesla and SpaceX, among other things.”and persistent complaints from Tesla shareholders. And Twitter, like other major tech companies, was obeying speech laws worldwide before the acquisition, albeit with more resistance than Musk seems to be putting up.

the world’s largest democracy issuing a public statement — on your own platform! — that you’d censored a journalistic investigation. The indifference is striking when Musk has spent thecastigating Twitter’s former leadership for allegedly colluding with various groups, including the US government, to suppress political speech.

It’s also, however, not surprising. Musk purchased Twitter with the professed goal of making it a haven for free expression, but he has

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