It was fun seeing these people go from "no private platform is obligated to host your speech, biatch!" to "whaaa! a private platform is getting a new owner and the new owner will make changes to what they host that I don't like!" practically overnight.
Personally, I don't think Elon Musk will allow people to proverbially shit on the floor (like 4chan does for example). After all, Twitter has to make money to pay back the leveraged buyout loans, which means it has to remain attractive to advertisers. I'd be more worried about what will happen during the transition period (considering Twitter has already gone into "code freeze").
The real reason the wokes are annoyed so much is that they want the ability for them to say everything they want on Twitter (up to and including stating that "all they want for Christmas is white genocide" or stating they have the urge to "kneecap white men") while everyone else must be subjected to much higher scrutiny (reaching censorship levels).
The kind of "moderation" we get on Ars is a good indicator of what those people mean by "moderation". For example, yesterday I was banned from Ars for posting "stupid meme images", despite the fact other users are allowed post equally stupid My Little Pony meme images on nearly every thread. When I contacted the mods about it, they said the pony memes were "grandfathered in".
In plain English, wokes want the ability for themselves to proverbially shit on the floor, but not for anyone else. Elon Musk has promised to keep everyone to the same standards, and unsurprisingly the wokes are losing their minds.
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