"Free Speech" huh? I got completely booted off Twitter

[underpants]

I wasn’t doing or posting anything that I wouldn’t do on DU. I was trolling MAGA influencers but only with published and reported facts … and some memes (like on DU) …. but that’s it.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. You lost your First Amendment rights? On Twitter? How could that be?

[MichMan]

9. How is the First Amendment even applicable?

People get banned or posts get removed here on DU daily.

[dpibel]

19. Where does the OP mention the First?

Surprisingly, the phrase "free speech" is not limited to the First Amendment.

Elon Musk proclaimed himself a "free speech absolutist".

Comparisons between the self-description and what happens on Twitter seem entirely apt.

[ToxMarz]

16. Musk claims he is a champion of free speech and Twitter/X is all about free speech

That's why he champions (encourages?) the right of Nazi's and racist's to post freely on X. It doesn't neccessariy have anyting to do with the First Amendment. He didn't say he lost his First Ammendment rights, I think he was more caling out Musk's hypocrisy.

[Scrivener7]

2. Musk only allows biased speech?!?!? Who could have seen that coming?

But doesn't it feel good to stop being a product he can use for his own purposes?

[yardwork]

3. Weird. Scary.

Reminds me of Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

[EdmondDantes_]

7. Would it remind you of the same if someone here posted pro Trump messages and got banned?

Getting suspended on Twitter is hardly the government throwing someone in jail.

[yardwork]

10. Not the same at all.

DU is a small platform openly dedicated to a single issue: electing Democrats. Twitter is the largest communication platform in the world, and its owner, the wealthiest man in the world, helped get Trump elected and led the effort to destroy federal agencies.

Twitter banning people for the kinds of things they post on DU is chilling.

It's weird to me that you don't see the difference.

[EdmondDantes_]

12. Because that's not a real difference

How many members does a site need before they aren't allowed to ban people? Reddit, Facebook, Bluesky all ban people.

And you're taking the poster's word they didn't say anything they couldn't say here. Without seeing the post(s) in question, that's a leap of faith.

[yardwork]

13. Have you ever read anything on Twitter (X)?

[ret5hd]

24. if DU promised free speech as musk did.

[ananda]

4. I haven't posted to Xitter since Musk took it over.

I believe in boycotting all compromised media.

[Goonch]

5. ;-{) ......

[DFW]

6. You posted FACTS? That was really going out on a limb

No wonder they retaliated.

[ret5hd]

8. now is your chance to stop supporting musk.

just move on.

[MustLoveBeagles]

11. The free speech only applies to RWNJ's

Sorry you were booted for telling the truth.

[niyad]

14. The First Amendment Free Speech clause only applies to the government,

not being allowed to limit our speech, not private entities.

[underpants]

15. We know that but Elon buying Twitter was heralded* as THE RETURN OF FREE SPEECH

* by the right wing media and the rest of the media that follows.

[niyad]

21. It seems that many people do not know that. I cannot count the

number of times I have had to explain this to people in personal conversations.

[underpants]

22. I meant, you and I

and informed people.

[niyad]

23. True. Sad that we seem to be in a minority in the world.

[twodogsbarking]

17. This will go on your permanent record mister.

[GiqueCee]

18. Musk is a Nazi wannabe...

... totally devoid of any redeeming qualities whatsoever. Being a completely amoral psychopath is how he got so rich. You can fling all manner of poo at Dems and progressives on X, but whisper the slightest criticism of conservative snowflakes and you're gone.
The lines to piss on his grave will be long, indeed, so get your tickets now!

[MineralMan]

20. Freedom of speech is not guaranteed

on private forums. Think about who owns what used to be Twitter. He can do whatever he wants. It's his website.

Just go somewhere else. I canceled my account on Twitter the day Musk walked in carry8ing a kitchen sink.

[dpibel]

25. As mentioned multiple times in this thread:

The point is the hypocrisy.

Elon proclaimed himself a free speech absolutist. He is not.

Simple as that.

Nobody on this thread, that I can see, is claiming that there is some sort of prohibition against Musk censoring.

It is, however, noteworthy that he's the one who claimed to be reestablishing unbridled free speech.

I actually do not think this is such a difficult concept.

[canetoad]

26. I worry about you

Will you cope?