You have to admit, the “free speech” shield-wielding megalomaniac working so hard to keep people from freely accessing info isn’t exactly great optics.

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immibis2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Optics and logic are two different things. The optics seem to be working out well for him, for some reason.

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freedomben 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm very much on the side of xcancel and nitter on this one, but I do think it's fair to point out that Twitter is free of monetary charge. It's not free in the sense that you do have to provide some personal information and data to them in exchange for that free account, but it isn't a huge roadblock for most people, however annoying it may be.

Now that said, I sure hope Elon will pivot this and make these services unnecessary. I'm not holding my breath though.

	▲	Operyl 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The biggest frustration for a lot of people is that their municipalities use Twitter almost exclusively to communicate with their constituents, it _sucks_. I've pleaded and begged my city and county to have some other form of communication, in addition to Twitter/X, to mass distribute information.
	▲	bakies 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		right, it's not free, like you said
	▲	angoragoats 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The phrase "free speech" does not typically mean "free as in beer," rather it means "free as in freedom," so in this case you're conflating the two meanings of "free" in English. The fact that Twitter is login-gated makes it objectively less free as in freedom.
	▲	InsideOutSanta 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Elon Musk, gratis speech absolutist.