Tesla founder Elon Musk issued a warning yesterday to users of his popular social media platform, X (formally Twitter).
That a Kamala Harris presidency would essentially end X for good, according to Musk.
While speaking to podcaster Joe Rogan, Musk pondered what the future of X would look like if Harris is elected as president.
“I think if Trump wins, we’ll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will lift,” he said. “But if Kamala wins, we’ll see that boycott gets stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [it] down. There’s no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist.”
Musk is referring to acquired X for billions of dollars to protect free speech, according to him.
The conversation began with Rogan dispelling a myth that Musk has driven X into the ground, but failed to focus on the fact that people were being censored on the platform prior to Musk’s acquisition.
“If you didn’t do it, no one would have,” Rogan said. “And here’s the hilarious narrative that I keep hearing from idiots. ‘Elon’s a bad businessman. Twitter is worth, you know, 400% less than when he bought it.’ No, it wasn’t worth that in the first place. It wasn’t worth $44 billion, you f—ing morons. Wrong. And also, you’re not taking into account the advertiser boycott. That’s total bulls—.”
Musk agreed and said the Orwellian-named Center for Countering Digital Hate was a “total scam organization” like the Ministry of Truth.
He referred to the group as a “censorship organization” that “pushed the advertisers to boycott.”
Last year, Musk’s X Corp. sued the Center for Countering Digital Hate alleging it had published “misleading claims” and exaggerated the prevalence of harmful content on X to thwart investment from advertisers.
While Musk said that some aspects of the boycott have lessened, this election will be a decisive moment in the battle between government censorship and freedom of speech.
However, he believes that could turn if Harris is elected, specifically using the Department of Justice.
“They can sic the DOJ [Department of Justice] on you know, and say like, you know, they’ve got this whole thing about like hate speech, misinformation or whatever, except that they’re the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn’t stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ,” he said.