Elon Musk just banned Jack Sweeney, a college kid he promised not to ban just last month.
Needless to say, all this seems wildly opposed to Musk's putative commitment to free speech, which has remained a key rallying point during his takeover of Twitter.that he cared about free speech so much that he wouldn't ban the account.
"My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk," he wrote. So banning ElonJet a month later is a puzzling move — though not particularly surprising, given Musk'sThen again, considering the flurry of eyebrowing raising decisions he's been making at Twitter seemingly every single day, maybe a month is all the time he needed to wait for this story to go less-noticed. In all likelihood, ElonJet's demise could simply get buried under the deluge of disastrous decision-making.
To be fair, it's unclear if Musk was involved in the suspension, directly or otherwise. Yet at the same time, he's made it clear that the buck stops with him, and it's nearly impossible to imagine the chaotic suspension having taken place before he took over the site.listeners in a Twitter space last week that he was worried that "something bad" could happen to him.
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