{"id":146880,"date":"2022-12-03T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jack-white-mocks-elon-musks-free-speech-hypocrisy-after-kanye-ban-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:40:03","slug":"jack-white-mocks-elon-musks-free-speech-hypocrisy-after-kanye-ban-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/jack-white-mocks-elon-musks-free-speech-hypocrisy-after-kanye-ban-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Mocks Elon Musk’s ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy After Kanye Ban \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tJack White has<\/span> been keeping up with Elon Musk’s Twitter regime \u2014 and has some pointed words about it. On Friday, the \u201cLove Is Blindness\u201d musician shared his thoughts on Musk’s allowance of certain people (read: Donald Trump, neo-Nazis) and certain hate (read: antisemitism, white supremacy) on his platform.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cSo Elon, how’s that ‘free speech’ thing working out?\u201d wrote White, who left Twitter last month, on Instagram. \u201cOh, I see, so you have to CHOOSE who gets free speech and who doesn’t then? What kind of crybaby liberal suspends someone’s free speech? Hmm\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWhite shared screenshots of Kanye West’s suspended account \u2014 it happened after the rapper tweeted a Swastika and Musk said it violated a Twitter rule about hurting violence. White also shared a screenshot of a tweet from Musk saying he wouldn’t let Alex Jones back on the platform since he has \u201cno mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for\u2026 fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cConspiracy liar Alex Jones doesn’t get ‘free speech’ either? I see. So you’re learning that these folks hurt violence and hatred but trump\u2026DOESN’T?\u201d he tweeted. (White said before that he left Twitter because of Musk’s decision to allow the former president back on the platform.) \u201cOr is it that liar Jones, and anti-Semite egomaniac Kanye can’t provide tax breaks for billionaires the way the former president could?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cOr that maybe the controller of this ‘free speech’ is insulted personally?\u201d White continued with the rhetorical questions. \u201cIt’s nice to watch in real time as you learn that all things need to be regulated, whether that be guns, drugs, alcohol, assembly, or speech because of the danger of someone or something being hurt or destroyed. They’re sometimes called ‘laws.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWhite continued to drag Musk, saying that the billionaire was likely learning \u201chow harmful it can be when you let dangerous, hateful people say whatever they want on your stage.\u201d White closed comments on his post, and made such decision a point, since he can \u201cregulate the platforms I control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cDo the right thing Elon and don’t provide other hate mongers a stage, let them go talk in [the] town square,\u201d he ended his rant. \u201cAnd no, twitter isn’t town square owned by the govt., it’s a private company owned by Elon Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWhite had originally explained his decision to leave Twitter in a similarly lengthy Instagram post dedicated to Musk in November, accusing the Tesla owner of giving back a platform to \u201cknown liars\u201d like Trump, while calling the reinstatement of Trump’s account \u201can asshole move. \u201d<\/p>\n

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\tMusk gave Trump back his account after more than 15 million people allegedly voted in a Twitter poll, with 51.8 percent suggesting that the former president’s account should be reinstated. \u201cVox Populi, Vox Dei,\u201d Musk wrote about his decision. (A Twitter insider recently told Rolling Stone<\/em> that Twitter polls are plagued with bots.)<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cThat’s not ‘free speech’ or ‘what the poll decided’ or whatever nonsense you’re claiming it to be; this is straight up you trying to help a fascist have a platform so you can eventually get your tax breaks,\u201d White wrote. \u201cI mean, how many more billions do you need that you have to risk democracy itself to obtain it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n