Comment by lostlogin
4 hours ago
> I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?
Musk is a freedom of speech absolutist when it comes to the things he has to say. ‘I think that the bedrock of democracy is freedom of speech’ [1].
He has rather different views when it’s anyone else speaking [2].
[1] https://mrcfreespeechamerica.org/blogs/free-speech/tom-oloha...
[2]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/elon-m...
That may be the case, but the EFF’s Twitter alone is enough to explain their poor performance.
Their last post did quite well, and it is characteristically different from their other posts.
I don’t think Elon Musk personally needs to put his thumb on the scale in this case. I don’t even understand why he’d be involved here and not say anything. Like wouldn’t he say “EFF sucks” or something? I dunno, I don’t really keep up with that kind of thing.
It’s fine if the EFF wants to leave because they aren’t reaching people.