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by carlivar 1276 days ago
I agree. I'm a libertarian and was glad to see Elon exposing the subjective and left leaning prior Twitter censorship policies.

But... I also loathe Elon's sociopathic nature, and was waiting for the other shoe to drop with Twitter. It just did. He promised transparency but all these account suspensions are anything but. My idealist libertarian principles are offended, even if I don't really like the impacted journalists.

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." - Thomas Paine

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I'm not surprised. Elon might have enabled a couple cool technology companies to live and he's good at shitposting (in a good way), but he couldn't be farther away from libertarian ideals IMO. What's happening on Twitter right now is pretty much what I expected.