Elon Musk and his legion of free-speech defenders on Twitter have recently been locked in a battle with the British government, as well as the European Union, in the wake of race riots that rocked the country this month. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and others in the government have attacked Musk’s social media platform for spreading false claims about immigrants, while Musk has hit back hard and warned that threats of speech censorship lead inevitably to authoritarianism.
For all his concern about free speech in the UK, however, Musk has had nothing to say about the far more aggressive speech censorship campaign presently being enacted in Israel, a country whose leadership he vocally supports. The crackdown is the result of the crude enforcement of an Israeli law that can criminalize acts as innocuous as posting a Palestinian flag on social media. …..more
