Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, has threatened to shut down X with the help of President Kamala Harris.
After the election, Musk, who famously paid 44 billion dollars to purchase the social media network in order to “protect free speech,” discussed the platform’s future with podcaster Joe Rogan.
She will close X down – Elon Musk warns Americans of what is going to occur to his social media ‘x’ if Kamala wins today’s election
Rogan remarked, “No one would have if you hadn’t done it.” And this is the amusing story I hear from fools all the time. “Elon is a lousy entrepreneur.” You know, Twitter is worth 400% less now than it was when he purchased it. In the first place, it wasn’t worth that. You damn fools, it wasn’t worth $44 billion. False. Additionally, you’re not considering the boycott of advertisers. That is complete nonsense.
Musk concurred and said the Orwellian-named Center for Countering Digital Hate was a “total scam organization” like the Ministry of Truth. He referred to the group as a “censorship organization” that “pushed the advertisers to boycott.”
Last year, Musk’s X Corp sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate alleging it had published “misleading claims” and exaggerated the prevalence of harmful content on X to thwart investment from advertisers.
While Musk said that some aspects of the boycott have lessened, this election will be a decisive moment in the battle between government censorship and freedom of speech.
“I think if Trump wins, we’ll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will lift,” he said. “But if Kamala wins, we’ll see that boycott gets stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [it] down. There’s no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist.”
“You really think that they’ll be able to shut it down, though? Is there a pathway to that?” the podcast host asked, later inquiring, “What would they do?”
Musk offered a few scenarios he believes could happen.
“They can sic the DOJ [Department of Justice] on you know, and say like, you know, they’ve got this whole thing about like hate speech, misinformation or whatever, except that they’re the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn’t stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ,” he said.
Last year, the DOJ filed a lawsuit against SpaceX, accusing Musk’s company of discriminating against asylum recipients and refugees in its hiring decisions. A federal judge put that lawsuit on hold pending the results of SpaceX’s own suit.