Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in on Monday over Big Tech’s recent move to censor President Trump in response to the Capitol riots by pro-Trump supporters last week.
“A lot of people are going to be very unhappy with the West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech,” Musk responded to a tweet from a satirical article titled “Evil Fascist Dictator Censored and Voted Out of Office.”
Musk faced Big Tech censorship earlier in June after calling Amazon for allegedly censoring the publication of a book on the coronavirus.
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- Facebook’s has announced that it will block Trump’s account indefinitely on the platform and on Instagram.
- Twitter immediately followed suit and on Friday announced its own permanent ban on Trump.
His latest remark comes days after Musk hacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol.
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