The tech bros don’t care about free speech; they care about control.
Elon Musk, the self-described “free speech absolutist,” who is currently arguing in court that the “n word” has a place at Tesla, is actually a snowflake actively shutting down social media promotion for a biopic of himself.
“The studio releasing Alex Gibney’s new Elon Musk documentary Musk is finding itself unable to buy an ad on the biggest social platforms,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote on Friday. “YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram and Facebook owner Meta are all declining to run the trailer for Musk, along with X itself”.
The “social media” (propaganda) companies of YouTube (owned by Google), TikTok (owned in part by Larry Ellison’s Oracle) and Meta (owned by Mark Zuckerberg of Cambridge Analytica and other scandals involving helping to spread right wing lies) cited a rejection of “political content” reasons for denying the paid advertisement for the Musk documentary on their platforms.
“The unwillingness of platforms to accept even paid advertising is sure to raise concerns about free speech and the dwindling number of companies that control many of the platforms in this country,” the Hollywood Reporter pointed out.
Musk opens in theaters on October 9. Watch the trailer below:
The Snowflake Hypocrisy
Musk bought Twitter citing his love for free speech. The World’s Most Sensitive Man stated he bought Twitter to create an unrestrictive global space for free expression. He glazed himself as a free speech absolutist!
Yet, after he took over in the most cringeworthy style a person can imagine by carrying a sink into Twitter headquarters, media watchdogs and journalists noted that Twitter/X has suspended accounts belonging to journalists and critics who questioned Musk.
The World’s Most Sensitive Man frequently took refuge in “free speech” to justify his refusal to moderate speech, regardless of how offensive or controversial it might be, on his “digital town square” of X/Twitter.
But now, the World’s Most Sensitive Man is using it to silence speech he doesn’t like even as he allows a CSAM poster to remain on the platform and allows his AI “Grok” to use publicly shared photos to create CSAM and revenge porn on unwitting prey.
