Musk's concept of "free speech absolutism" does not include journalists

[quote]Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of journalists who cover the social media platform and its new owner Elon Musk, among them reporters working for The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other publications.

The company hasn’t explained to the journalists why it took down the accounts and made their profiles and past tweets disappear. But Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.” He provided no evidence for that claim.[/quote]
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/12/15/elon-musk-twitter-suspends-journalists/10907094002/

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sunsporter1649 demands [quote]"Splain to us the reasoning behind providing on an open forum the targets exact location[/quote]

What's this?

Since when did "free speech" imply that you had to provide a "reason" or a "justification" or a "rationale" for your speech or publication??

Regardless, the kid is just collating free publicly available flight information. It's already in the public domain.

Admit it - Musk ADORES censorship - he just wants to be in charge of the censorship!! That's why he declared "Comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then blocked the following joke: