Is Musk giving up? If so, it will be a blow to the freedom of speech. The other social media giants are censoring patriots as lustily as they always have.
Early Sunday evening, Elon Musk posted a new Twitter poll: “Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.” Over seventeen million votes were cast, and the Yes votes won with over 57 percent.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
So will Musk really give up Twitter after shaking up the entire world, and especially the U.S. political and media establishment that has now definitively proven that it opposes the freedom of speech?
He may be joking. He may be planning to step away from day-to-day operations of the platform and leave it to a like-minded person. Or he may be tired of all the abuse and threats, which were only going to increase the longer he pursued his free-speech agenda. If there was any doubt about David Horowitz’s dictum that “inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” there isn’t any now. Back in April, Musk tweeted: “By ‘free speech’, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.” That this was remotely controversial was bad enough in itself.
