The New Republic reports:
Technocrat billionaire Elon Musk finally owned up Wednesday to restricting his critics’ X accounts. But the self-described “free speech absolutist” doesn’t see anything wrong with it.
Last week, Musk began stripping the verifications from far-right accounts run by people who challenged his support for H-1B visas, after he and his co–DOGE czar Vivek Ramaswamy went to war arguing that Asian workers were far better than American ones. Obviously, the pro-white American far right didn’t take too kindly to that messaging.
By taking away their verifications and knocking them out of X Pro, it seems that Musk has rendered several large accounts unable to receive ad revenue from X. Verification makes an account more visible too, so he has curbed their potential audiences.
Read the full article. Among the more prominent cultists to suffer Musk’s revenge are Laura Loomer, Infowars host and convicted rioter Owen Shroyer, New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax, and neo-Nazi leader Nick Fuentes. A number of Fuentes’ groyper followers have also been stripped of their checkmarks.
Exactly. The first amendment is protection for “free speech”, not “paid speech” ffs.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
Claiming censorship while simultaneously getting millions of views is the clearest possible evidence that Fuentes has 💩 for brains
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2025
Where is the note, Musk? pic.twitter.com/Afo6k7rZPo
— Asuka Groyper 🚬 (@asukagrypr) January 2, 2025