Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

  • faberyayo@lemm.ee
    231·
    6 days ago

    Wasn’t Elon Musk the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”? Turns out it was the “free speech abolitionist” after all.

    • Sibshops@lemm.eeEnglish
      77·
      6 days ago

      It means Elon gets free speech, not any of us. Elon is free to threaten a Judges daughter with no ramifications.

    • axh@lemmy.world
      11·
      6 days ago

      Apparently free speech absolutist means “absolutely no free speech” according to fElon.

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        its the same people whoa re anti-woke, they are the wokest people out there.

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      It still blows my mind that he has this reputation. His OWN damn policy was and still is “Freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.” Which is blatantly censorship and suppression lol. I cannot grasp how someone could see that and be like “free speech is back!!!”