Far left, to me, would be things like nationalizing whole industries or seizing the assets of the “rich oppressors”. It seems “far left” to (too) much of the US means parental leave or single payer healthcare.
Indeed. The US has gone so far down the path of broken Capitalism that ideas that are pretty middle-of-the-road are enough to brand you a firy communist.
Richard Nixon was piloting Universal Basic Income and founded the EPA. Let THAT sink in.
Problem is, he thinks moderate means tolerating two extremes as opposed to being hostile to both extremes. There is speech made in bad faith and hostile intent and there is sincere exchange of thoughts.
The better approach is to let the leader decide. The classical approach was to let things stay and let people form their own opinion. Then big tech started to moderate content more strictly and in my opinion with political intend. I believe the classical approach worked better.
It's a private company, of course the leader decides. But being a publicly accessible platform it poses a danger to the public when it promotes extremism. If the leader decides then the leader is responsible even with the penalty of prison time when people get hurt as a result of poort moderation.
Like I said in my comment, intent is important. If you say something with the intent of harming someone it is as if you actually harmed them. This is why planning to kill, steal or defraud is a serious crime. Elon himself should be banned for some of his actions on the platform. I see no proof of political moderation on twitter but even if there is it is easily fixable. Just replace people. These social media companies need a mandated moderation officer accountable to the DoJ really.
What pisses me off the most is how people don't understand how precious democracy and your country are. These companies are destroying them and like that in a day all of this will be gone for good.
He is definitely changing the perception many had of him. Probably many people thought of him as an eccentric tech genius and in a harmless, inspirational, or non political context. Eccentric is starting to veer towards quite crazy or unhinged, harmless/inspirational/non political is starting to look more like sinister, corrupt, and/or divisive.
Appears that he is throwing away a lot of the good will people had towards him and his other companies (Tesla and SpaceX particularly), so that they will be making a downwards reevaluation of him. Will be interesting to see how far this all goes, particularly in Musk making himself a target for negative media and inviting scandals.
In most any conversations I've been in or heard involving Musk, the overall perception of him and his image was overwhelmingly positive. This entire Twitter fiasco, and how he is handling it, seems to have changed that a lot.
Additionally, once the media starts zeroing in or locking on to people with a negative story to tell and sell, they can run with it and where they try to outdo each other. I don't see the continuous negative stories and narrative about Musk stopping for years to come.