That’s a markedly different set of actions than those Musk took two years ago after criticizing Twitter’s decision to suppress a 2020 news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He called the ...

Elon Musk is a self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist.” He’s declared himself so committed to the unfettered, open exchange ...

Many religions and faiths would take an absolutist approach when it comes to decisions on life and death. An absolutist approach means that actions are viewed either as being always right or ...

Theresa May has said the growth of an "uncompromising absolutism" in UK and global politics risks poisoning debate and undermining democratic values. In her last major speech as PM, she said it ...

And some of the data suggests that its overlord Elon Musk isn't quite the "free speech absolutist" he makes himself out to be. Musk took over Twitter in the second half of 2022. Since then ...

But there’s more to it than that. As Off Message’s Brian Beutler noted in his latest column: Only in policy-absolutist terms, ...

Since purchasing Twitter in 2022 and then rebranding it, Musk has fashioned himself as a free speech absolutist. He fired most of Twitter's trust and safety team and has fought authorities in ...

Though he has branded himself a free-speech absolutist, Musk has repeatedly capitulated to government demands to moderate the platform more heavily. After months of refusing to comply with a ...

More than a decade later, as president of the Signal Foundation, she remains a privacy absolutist — committed to the idea of end-to-end encryption and the need for pockets of digital anonymity ...

A self-declared "free-speech absolutist", the billionaire entrepreneur had described Justice Moraes’ move to ban several dozen accounts as an abuse of power and a violation of free speech.

Think, for example, of self-proclaimed free-speech absolutist (and Rand fan) Elon Musk’s tendency to suspend journalists from X when they publish articles he doesn’t agree with. This inherent ...