Enough Musk Spam
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There are plenty of things you can't say in America. For example, churches can't endorse politicians, you can't say myriad swearwords on TV (h/t George Carlin), you can't even show a nude penis, you can't libel people, often you can't show brands or play music without being sued...
A more interesting thing to me, is this so called business wunderkind and owner of a communications platform doesn't know the rules around broadcasting. You know even a $5MM company usually retains one lawyer for this kind of shit.
Would you let an individual contributor, factotum role at your company say this publically? I'd be fired fucking instantly if I said that on the company LinkedIn profile.
Oh, I agree that it was a bad idea for Musk to say that. It isn't how one maximizes Twitter's profits; scandalized European regulators can create expensive problems and advertisers won't want to be associated with such language. These might be sacrifices that a principled person would accept in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, but Musk isn't such a person. I'm not really sure why he does what he does. However, he's not wasting my money so I can just sit back and enjoy the show.
(Also, if a principled person were to risk huge sums of money in order to make a defiant defense of free speech, could he be a little more eloquent? There's an art to using profanity well, and this isn't an example of that art.)