I don't like the witch hunt culture no matter which direction it goes. This whole situation is cringe. However, I'm not convinced by the popular argument explaining why Musk is "wrong" - that he has a "responsibility" when speaking to his 120 million followers that is not shared by anyone he mentions in his speech. This seems arbitrarily restrictive at first glance, because it means anyone can speak about Musk, but h…
Instead of cooking up hypothetical circumstances in which Musk is a hapless victim, how about we examine the actual situation where he and others are insinuating that this Roth guy was promoting pedophilia (he wasn't), and the fact that Twitter isn't consistently removing obvious and explicit death threats. Edit: for context, here's a collection of threat examples from a fairly well-known researcher who regularly cat…
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I'm in no way defending what Musk did to Roth and find it despicable. Roth was not promoting pedophilia, and Musk insinuated he was.