Elon Musk Keeps Banning and Demonitizing Immigration Critics

So much for the "free speech absolutist"

Published: January 2, 2025, 2:34 pm

    Elon Musk Launches Twitter Purge, Bans Critics of His Push to Expand Indian Immigration

    The short-lived era of Elon Musk’s Twitter being a semi-“free speech platform” came to an end on Friday after Musk started banning right-wing critics of his who vocally opposed his plan to radically expand Indian immigration.

    On Friday night, Musk called MAGA critics of Indian immigration “contemptible fools” who “must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.”

    Musk, who became a Republican just two years ago and originally supported DeSantis over Trump, made the comment in response to a post from Neera Tanden telling her fellow Indians to vote Democrat because Republicans are racist against Indians.

    Neera Tanden is a lifelong Democrat activist who has worked under Clinton, Obama and Biden.

    We’re basically as far away from an election as you can get and yet Musk evidently decided that the feelings of Tanden should be setting GOP policy.

    He swiftly launched a massive purge of right-wing accounts he labeled “coordinated reply spammers/scammers.”

    Twitter is filled with “reply spammers” — that’s the main way people get views on the site — and yet it’s only the people who criticized him who are getting banned.

    Though Musk himself shares fake tweets all the time, he banned this guy for sharing a fake tweet of him.

    For the record, that fake tweet went viral yesterday after it made the front page of Reddit.

    Sriram Krishnan, the Indian immigrant whose appointment by Trump to be Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence initially sparked much of this backlash, was described by an Indian Twitter user as “our George Floyd.”

    “Man, Sriram sure didn’t deserve all this! He’s such a great guy,” Musk said in response. “I hope this ultimately pieces [sic] the boil of hidden racism and leads to a better America.”

    Despite his criticisms of “reply spammers,” Musk didn’t apply these rules to his chief defender, Malaysian reply spammer/content ripper Ian Miles Cheong.

    Cheong, who tweets almost exclusively about American politics despite living his whole life in Malaysia and never even stepping foot in America, is evidently Musk’s model citizen.

    Perhaps Musk will get Cheong an H-1B visa so he can finally come to America and serve as his footstool?

    Source: Information Liberation

    Elon Musk’s “everything app” will take away everything you’ve earned if you disagree with his plan to flood America with foreigners in the name of “meritocracy.”

    Musk closed out 2024 by banning over a dozen Groypers last week who criticized his plans to expand Indian immigration through H-1B visas and now he’s removing the blue checkmarks from critics of his including Stew Peters, Myron Gaines and Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis.

    Musk said in 2022 that he hopes even his “worst critics” remained on his platform because “that is what free speech means.”

    Now, he’s banning them and demonetizing them for criticizing him.

    Source: Information Liberation

    Elon Musk Defends Censoring Critics, Says First Amendment Does Not Protect ‘Paid Speech’

    X owner Elon Musk on Wednesday defended his decision to censor critics of his mass “legal” immigration agenda by insisting the First Amendment does not provide protection for “paid speech.”

    “People getting demonetized for their inexcusable behavior then complaining about free speech is hilarious to me,” Zionist activist Nicole Behnam said on X. “You can say whatever you want. You just can’t get paid for it. Hope this helps.”

    “Exactly,” Musk responded. “The first amendment is protection for ‘free speech’, not ‘paid speech’ ffs.”

    Musk pitched everyone on paying for Twitter by telling them you’re paying to have free speech (and expanded reach) but now he has apparently changed his mind and decided to take that all away.

    He also said you have “s**t for brains” if you think his censoring people is censorship because he hasn’t banned everyone yet.

    As I reported earlier, Musk spent the last week of 2024 shilling for increased Indian immigration, denigrating Americans as too “retarded” to work in tech and crying and banning people for criticizing him.

    On New Year’s Eve, he removed the blue checkmarks from critics of his including Stew Peters, Myron Gaines, Jake Shields and Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (all of whom also happen to be fierce critics of Israel).

    Musk claimed when he purchased Twitter that he was a “free speech absolutist” and would seek to allow the maximum amount of free speech permitted by law but all that changed after he got into hot water for agreeing with a poster who said that Jews are pushing anti-white hate.

    Musk sought to make amends by visiting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel for an atrocity propaganda tour and reportedly made a deal with the Anti-Defamation League to censor terms like “From the river to the sea” and “decolonization” as “calls for violence.”

    He then implemented a new caste system on X and took a trip to Auschwitz with Ben Shapiro.

    He also changed the X algorithm to suppress the reach of anti-Zionist users and stop showing people video of the atrocities Israel was committing in Gaza.

    Now, he’s using blue check removal as a punishment and an implicit threat to shut people up for opposing him (just as the previous regime did under the old Twitter).

    What a way to ring in the New Year!

    Source: Information Liberation

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