The Twitter Files, Part Six
This is the height of hypocrisy. Everything the &quot;twitter files&quot; have disclosed so far is in line with what most people expected was happening, but Musk&#x27;s censorship of the platform has been far more egregious than anything that came before. This isn&#x27;t to defend the actions that Twitter took, which were arguably partisan in some cases, but it&#x27;s difficult to make the case that Twitter wasn&#x27;t making a best effort to curate a healthy platform.<p>Musk by contrast has shown that he only cares about limiting speech that damages himself, and he will say or do anything to obscure that fact. He promised not to ban the elonjet account, and then reversed course: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;14&#x2F;elons-promise-not-to-ban-account-tracking-his-jet-didnt-last-very-long-at-all-also-bans-guys-personal-account&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techdirt.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;12&#x2F;14&#x2F;elons-promise-not-to-ban...</a><p>He falsely claimed that Twitter refused to take action on child exploitation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1601302412056473600?s=20&amp;t=4jIvJ2xuiNax6k-AJEUdKw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;jack&#x2F;status&#x2F;1601302412056473600?s=20&amp;t=4...</a><p>He has banned journalists who were critical to him in the past: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.world&#x2F;@kairyssdal&#x2F;109524620754087441" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.world&#x2F;@kairyssdal&#x2F;109524620754087441</a><p>He has banned Mastodon and Pixelfed&#x27;s accounts, falsly labeling them as &quot;malware.&quot;<p>And most hypocritically, he claims the reason for all of this is because these people have shared &quot;assassination coordinates&quot; and &quot;doxxed&quot; him, even though first of all, the information is public: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@JxckS&#x2F;109524630642043912" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@JxckS&#x2F;109524630642043912</a> Second, most of the journalists never linked to his private information: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;famichiki.jp&#x2F;@stopthatgirl7&#x2F;109522071808584229" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;famichiki.jp&#x2F;@stopthatgirl7&#x2F;109522071808584229</a> There is evidence that his claimed stalker was far from an airport, and worst in my opinion, he has doxxed critics in the past in much more damaging ways:
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