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Why? I’m definitely not pro Nazi and I am a minority. But why is posting hate speech a bridge too far for a “free speech” hard liner as Musk pretends to be?

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Because Elon doesn't actually have an ounce of moral intelligence. Like virtually every other thing that has happened with this whole takeover, he appears not to have really thought about the problem for more than 30 seconds.

This was evident even before a "tricky" case came up. His opening salvo was "free speech reigns," then immediately "well, law of the land matters," then "wait I guess I didn't think about how to handle variations in laws..."

It's humoring how many geniuses there are on the internet with the full authority to denounce the intelligence of the worlds currently richest man.

Yep, there's never before been a rich man with a loose grasp on morality, nor a poor man with a strong one. History shows that this just doesn't happen.

None said anything about morality. You seem very intelligent.

It’s also humoring just how many stans there are on HN.

Who would have thought that the engineer who initiatived and led both Tesla and SpaceX would have a lot of fans on an engineering forum

This is ridiculous. We should only air our opinions about people poorer than us?

He's so rich because Tesla is incredibly overvalued. I don't think Musk is an idiot, but he's done nothing to demonstrate he's a genius, just smart in some areas.

The whole money=intelligence makes no sense, many field require high level intelligence but don't monetarily reward comparatively well (e.g. scientific research)

He could make spacex go public and make up for the fact that Tesla is arguably overvalued, and the market is wrong and you are right. Which you must be, since you are an internet genius!

So if you think his “intelligence” is transferable, would you let him perform brain surgery on you?

Intelligence is not the same as knowledge of a particular domain, such as surgery. You seem very intelligent. Yes, I believe intelligence is something that is applied, just like wisdom.

I assume it's finally beginning to dawn on Elon that maybe everyone on twitter won't pay $8 to see a sea of swastikas, and he will need those advertisers after all.

Musk wants advertiser money back.

I believe Kanye posted some private comms between them on Parler or Truth Social. I've not read them but it might include some of his reasoning.

Private comms between Musk and Kanye was Musk quoting the Bible (?) as giving him the authority to decide whether Kanye's Swastikarofdavid is "love" or not.

No joke.

The swastika is associated with racial violence and violence is always something Musk has said he will not allow.

And claiming that an election was stolen that actually caused some idiots to storm a government building and putting the VP of the United States in danger is not associated with violence?

No, posting a flag of mass murderers is different from encouraging people to protest. I don’t care about the left/right politics, but since you may: bring consistent here also allows BLM to keep posting on Twitter despite people being shot by extremists.

Interesting. Look up the Boer flag, of Musk's South Africa.

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