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Elon Musk’s censorship of rap icon Ye over an offensive tweet signals the platform’s new CEO is not serious about free speech, says a non-profit foundation run by former congressman Ron Paul.
“Meet the new boss…same as the old boss,” the account for the Ron Paul Institute responded to Musk Thursday after he suspended Ye.
Meet the new boss…same as the old boss.. You’re telling me people cannot themselves block or mute Kanye? We are absolutely uninterested in Nazi crap. But we never ever have to see a single Kanye/Ye Tweet. Nor does anyone else. Elon: this is not rocket science! https://t.co/fQcseogHaB
— Ron Paul Institute (@RonPaulInstitut) December 2, 2022
“You’re telling me people cannot themselves block or mute Kanye? We are absolutely uninterested in Nazi crap. But we never ever have to see a single Kanye/Ye Tweet. Nor does anyone else. Elon: this is not rocket science!”
Continuing, the Ron Paul Institute – whose account is not run by the former congressman – criticized conservatives’ celebration of Ye’s suspension as “dumb” and said it illustrates how they “love cancel culture” when they’re the ones doing the canceling.
What if we told you that you never had to see a single @kanyewest post ever? All you had to do was press “block” and you could delete him yourselves. But that’s not enough for the bi-partisan cancel culture cult. Let and Right both agree that people should be disappeared.
— Ron Paul Institute (@RonPaulInstitut) December 2, 2022
“What if we told you that you never had to see a single @kanyewest post ever? All you had to do was press ‘block’ and you could delete him yourselves,” the Institute correctly pointed out, adding, “But that’s not enough for the bi-partisan cancel culture cult. Let and Right both agree that people should be disappeared.”
On Thursday evening, Musk banned Ye for posting a Raelien symbol, which Ye captioned “#LOVESPEECH,” claiming the rapper had violated the platform’s policies prohibiting incitements to violence.
This is the tweet that did him in… pic.twitter.com/mK3ly3nuTc
— Real Phil Jones
(@RealPJones) December 2, 2022
Responding to a user who asked him to “FIX KANYE PLEASE,” Musk replied that he’d tried, but that he was incorrigible and his policy violations would necessitate a suspension.
I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
In an article Friday by the Ron Paul Institute’s Adam Dick, he pointed out how “Ye’s Suspension from Twitter Suggests Elon Musk’s Free Speech Commitment is a Sham.”
“This action appears to fly in the face of Musk’s assurances that he is turning Twitter, long notorious for censorship, into a sanctuary for free speech,” Dick reiterated.
“YE24” in the tweet, which is no longer viewable at Twitter, appears to be a reference to Ye running in the 2024 United States presidential contest. Suppose the image in the tweet is intended to represent, sans Raelianistic meaning, just the Hebrew Star of David and German National Socialist swastika mashed up. Then, the image, combined with the text accompanying it, seems likely to indicate that Ye extends love to people of all viewpoints — along the lines of “coexist” bumper stickers — and is flexing his love for speech by posting something that will jar people. (It is also possible that Ye jumbled his attempted communication.)
In contrast, the assertion that Ye was inciting violence through this tweet is preposterous. Yet, that is what Musk appears to have claimed Ye had done.
“It looks like the facade of the new Twitter as a defender of free speech is crumbling,” Dick wrote.
Is Ye’s suspension proof Musk will not be the free speech absolutist he claimed to be?