Elon Musk Declares War On Free Speech
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk calls himself the king of free speech, but he's just mass banned a load of journalists who were scrutinising him from Twitter. Now the right don't really believe in free speech at all - by their own definitions, though they are hypocrites. What they really want to defend is the right of privileged white men like Musk to say what they want, not least about marginalised minorities, and face no response or consequence.
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| 0:00.0 | The one thing Elon Musk loves is free speech, right? |
| 0:03.5 | Yeah, just, you know, allowing people to freely debate |
| 0:06.7 | each other in the marketplace of ideas |
| 0:09.3 | without fear of censorship. |
| 0:11.3 | Let a thousand flowers bloom. |
| 0:12.8 | That is, Elon Musk's underlying philosophy. |
| 0:16.5 | Unlike, of course, the free speech hating woke mob |
| 0:19.9 | who want to silence people the everyday man |
| 0:22.1 | just for having an opinion, |
| 0:23.7 | the crime of a wrong thing, |
| 0:26.1 | like a particularly humorous reboot of the Stasi. |
| 0:30.0 | So, let's just have a little look |
| 0:33.6 | at the latest in Elon Musk, |
| 0:36.9 | the big king of free speech. |
| 0:39.2 | So he's just mass suspended a load of journalists |
| 0:42.4 | who are reporting on him. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you, CNN's Donnio Sullivan, |
| 0:46.0 | the Washington Post drew farewell. |
| 0:48.1 | The New York Times is Ryan Mack, |
| 0:49.5 | Mashable's Matt Binder and other journalists |
| 0:51.3 | such as Tony Webster and Aaron Rupert. |
| 0:53.9 | So this self-appointed king of free speech |
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