Slapstick chaos has been spreading like wildfire in the Twittersphere ever since Elon Musk’s tenure. Never a dull moment. 

On December 16th, Musk jumped into a Spaces discussion with several high-profile journalists and talked about his decision to ban many reporter accounts. 

Intensely grilled by Buzzfeed News’ Katie Notopoulos and The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell for his hypocritically selective free-speech absolutism, Musk hurriedly made an exit. Harwell herself was quashed for covering the @ElonJet skirmishes. It took Musk only a few hours to partially mute-out Spaces to “fix a Legacy bug”. How much more owned and self-entitled can anyone get?

For some background info, Chief Twit had falsely accused @ElonJet – an account run by sophomore student Jack Sweeney that uses publicly-available data to track the private jet whereabouts of many tech moguls and even Musk’s own brother – of leaking his real-time “assassination” coordinates and helping out the alleged “crazy stalker” of his 2-year-old son X Æ A-12. 

The billionaire saw red. Twitter immediately announced its outlaw on sharing other users’ live, same-day location information (historical data is permissible). One could argue here that no “free speech” resides in the act of trailing anyone’s precise location. America, and the world, are indeed by no means ready for this sort of open season on its public figures. We’re talking about the eruption of assassinations here. 

But Trump-loving Musk was not doxxed, instead hiding behind a lie that legitimizes political speech censorship and vindicates the suppression of his own detractors. We don’t even know how he will factor in “intent” when it comes to political events and protests.

Back to Spaces – Less than 24 hours passed and Spaces were resurrected back into beinghood, with some journo bans on hosting/entering Spaces also getting magically lifted. 

Let’s wait and see what this Musky soap drama will bring with its newer episodes. In the meantime, you can learn more here.