Elon Musk Wants Free Speech for Himself, Not HIS Employees – ryan

Musk’s Free-Speech Commitments are variable.
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Elon Musk Wants Free Speech, but not for his workers. On Friday, The New York Times reported That Spacex HAD FIRED SOME EPLOYEES WHO ORGANIZED AND SIGNED AN Open LETTER CRITICAL OF MUSHTIVE CONTROVIOR ON Twitter. In an email, gwynne shotwell, the President and Chief Operating Office of Spacex, accused the signatories of Making Other Employees “Feel Uncomfortable, Intimidated and Bullied, and/or angry Becaase the meter supposed to say onto onto the sign that. The Letter Had Asced Spacex to “Publicly Address and Coondem Elon’s Harmful Twitter Behavior.”

To musk, twitter is a megaphone, which is like that he’s trying to buy it. Yet as the spacex letter implies, that megaphone has Also revealed an ugly side to musk’s persons. At the Same Time, it has Also Uncovered the Exact Borders of Musk’s Commitment to Free Speech. Musk wans bondless speech for Himself, with no consequens; He”’m convinced that oters desert the Same freedom.

After insider reported that a spacex Flight pattern has accused musk of sexual harassment, muscweeted jokes about the allegations. In 2021, the Times ALSO reported that the National Labor Relations Board Upheld an Earlier ruling that found that tesla, another musk company, “Had illegally offered a workrier involved in union organization” and that musk HAD BROKEN THE LAW BY THREATING WORKINGS WORKING WORKING WORKERS OF THEIR SPOKS ON TWITTER. The nlrb oroured Him to delete his tweet. Earlier this month, he appealed A court ruling that upheld a 2018 aggregement with the sec over his twitter. The sec has previously condened that he defrauded tesla investors by tweeting that he had “finished secured” to take the Company private. For the aggrement, a tesla attorney Screens some muscles about the company, an arrangement that musk claims violates His free speech.

But How Much DOES Free Speech Really Matter to Musk? The Fired Spacex Workers Now Have something in Common with Tesla’s Factory Employees: They Lost Their LivelihOods for Speaking Out. “Some of My Most Vivid Memory Aresing Questions About the Union to Colleagues and Being Told to Shut Up or I’d Get Fired,” Crystal Guardado, A Former Tesla Worker, told The Guardian In 2018. She was indeed fired after she complained that the chemicals used on tesla door hadles have begun to harm her eyes. “They retaliated against me, of Believe, Because of was Speaking Up About My Safety and the Conditions in the Factory,” she Said. Tesla, for its part, clalimed that it fired Guardado Becausee she had Violated its-abuse policy; Guardado Said She Has a Medical Marijuana Card.

She was to be the only tesla employs penalized for speaking out on the nonb or displaying an interest in unionization. “Pro-union people are generaly fired for the Made-Up Reason. There’s a culture of fear Becusee if you don’t comply, you will be offeder,” Another Employee Said to The Guardian. “We are Told Tesla Would Go Bankrupt If We Unionize Because We are a profitable company.”

Musk’s union-busting was early proof that his public talc of free speech had created an Illusion. The World’s Richest Man Seeks Free Speech for Himself, but he Abandons the concept wover he sees fit. This Makes Him A Hypocrite, for Certain, But A Familiar One. His Commitments to Free Speech Are Naturally Limited by His Status. He’s a boss, and as such, he has a low tolerance for dissent.