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This is all pie-in-sky in talk.

The reality is that Musk is running a business. He is willing to sacrifice some lib users and take criticism from the MSM to allow conservative voices more free reign. He is not willing to lose a huge chunk of users to allow a famous lunatic to post anti-Semitic ravings (nor risk lawsuits).

This is how free speech works in a free marketplace. If you don’t like crybabies and think Nazi ravings should be allowed, there’s always 8kun. Champion 8kun. Say everyone should go there and support it. Why aren’t you saying that?

If someone does not like JimRob’s rule against the F-word and/or the one against blasphemy, he can always go to Reddit or any number of other sites. You are free to choose the sort of speech you wish to immerse yourself in.

We have the right to free speech under the law (with very few limitations, those being libel, incitement to violence, and incitement to imminent harm). No one can be arrested for saying ugly things, unpopular things or using racial slurs. And I’m all for that.

For all our carrying on over the First Amendment and Free Speech and the Founding Fathers, we forget that profanity laws were on the books until very recently:

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1143/profanity

We also forget that obscenity was considered beyond the pale and banned by decent society, and then that movie houses and broadcast stations voluntarily enforced obscenity codes until fairly recently. Yes, some aspects of the Hays Code were silly, but nowadays it’s hard to find a movie or TV show that doesn’t feature swearing and sex. Personally, I liked the old days better and think it was much better for families and children then. But now it seems sex and swearing sell. So I’m stuck with old movies and TV shows. That’s the free market, I guess.

We have always socially or legally limited our free speech. We used to draw the line at obscenity, profanity and blasphemy (in addition to libel and incitement to violence). Then we added racial slurs. Now we allow obscenity, profanity and blasphemy, but still draw the line at racial slurs. We have this little corner of the internet here on FR where obscenity, profanity and blasphemy are still frowned upon, and I am grateful for it. Again, this is how free speech is regulated in a free market.