I can't imagine that it took much pressure, given the ideological overlap between the two 'men' in question. I don't think that Spez is particularly burdened by standards or a dedication to fair moderation either, unless he's had a very late-in-life conversion to being decent.
Not much of a story really. Some people made death threats over DOGE on reddit, Musk asked for them to be taken down and they were.
It's basically the same thing as the premise behind "The Twitter Files", isn't it? Someone in government sees rule-breaking content, reports it through back channels.
Yes, but 'Dont Tread on Me' is only about the government. When we're talking about capitalists, it's 'Tread on Me harder, daddy'.
The problem is that it also included "doxxing" DOGE employees, even though they are significant public figures and their anonymity is almost certainly illegal. Protecting the identity of government employees who are more powerful than cabinet secretaries is plain abuse of ToS. (I will add that I don't believe most of the alleged death threats were real. I think Musk's concern was the "doxxing" and the death threats were a pretext.)
Is this an apology piece for Spez now that Elon isn't cool with his friends anymore?
He burned any redeemable goodwill a long time ago, and it's laughable that he thinks he can get it back.
It will be interesting to see how the shareholders of the publicly traded company respond when the FBI, etc. start getting involved with the threats being made on that platform.