• MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Views_of_Elon_Musk&oldid=1182272283

    Though it’s worth noting that for all of his claims of supporting free speech broadly, he only ever acted in support of the freedom of certain kinds of speech

    Top result for me searching “musk promotes far right accounts” from 2022 https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/HHRG-118-IF16-20230328-SD035.pdf

    The point is, this stuff is trivially easy to find

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      The point is, each additional step adds uncertainty:

      1. Musk is highly likely to be a Nazi because
      2. he very likely bought Twitter in order to promote Nazis, which we know because
      3. after the acquisition, it’s very likely that his actions have been to promote Nazis, which we know because
      4. after the acquisition, the accounts we know have been promoted are right and far-right

      In reverse order:

      1. What if there are other actions in support of left-wing views our analysis has missed? What if the motivation was a belief that left-wing views were generally not being suppressed as much as right-wing views? (An easy belief to acquire, because the far-right are more violent than the far-left, so more often fall foul of rules against promotion of violence)
      2. What if these far-right groups are horrible, but not actually Nazis?
      3. What if Musk bought Twitter for other reasons, even though the actual effect has been promoting far-right/Nazis?

      Let me be very clear: it is abundantly obvious that Musk is a Nazi. I am not trying to convince you that he isn’t. I’m not trying to convince you that there was no reason to think he was a horrible shitstain in 2023; there absolutely was. But you and others in this thread are conflating convincing evidence with incontrovertible evidence. That’s just a failure of empathy; people are unconvinced by convincing evidence all the damn time.