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> This is the type of speech that Elon believes should be allowed, and I agree.

And yet when the same satire it directed at Musk, he blows a gasket. Jeph Jacques[1] changed his profile picture and name to Musk's and tweeted (paraphrasing) "I like drinking my own piss first thing in the morning" and got permabanned for it. It was clearly satire to me, and broke no laws AFAICT.

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Rules against impersonation had been on the platform since 2018. IMO if you can't do satire without making your self indistinguishable from the person you are satirizing, you suck at it.

It says a lot that a tweet saying "I drink piss everyday" is indistinguishable from a real Elon tweet

Drinking his own piss is more of a Jack Dorsey move.

You mean bad satire is banned? Switching pages faster than Musk.

IMO repeatedly accusing a rescue worker of pedophilia is just as likely to provoke violence as Kanye posting a Nazi symbol on Twitter.

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