During a recent interview with conservative journalist Jack Posobiec, Elon Musk revealed the full extent he would be willing to go to in order to fight state censorship.
Musk’s answer followed questions Jack Posobiec posed regarding the censorship of the now-infamous Hunter Biden laptop story.
Collin Rugg provided the full quote from Musk: “If I think a government agency is breaking the law and there are demands on the platform, I would be prepared to go to prison personally if I think they are the ones breaking the law.”
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he is prepared to go to prison if the FBI comes to him in 2024 and tells him to illegally censor information similarly to what they did with the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.
This is why Elon Musk is the perfect person to own X 🔥
The comment came… pic.twitter.com/7DUHHw3tfR
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 10, 2023
Musk is right to take such a defiant stand against state-sponsored censorship and the protection of the First Amendment, without it we don’t have anything.
His recent move to allow Alex Jones back on the platform and refusing to bow down to corporate advertisers are both testaments to his resolve and commitment to freedom of speech.
Recall that the censorship went far beyond the Hunter Biden laptop story or even Covid censorship as investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger told Fox News:
“Well, it’s worse in the sense that the censorship was just one part of what we saw happening, both by U.K. and U.S. so-called former military contractors, but also currently employed, including some of those working for the Navy in 2020 when they created something called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, supposedly of volunteers.
ADVERTISEMENTBut many of these people were working actively for the Department of Homeland Security. We also saw people from the FBI working with social media companies to censor Americans.
But what we discovered was basically a handbook that they had created to use psychological operations and disinformation tactics against the American people.
These are tactics that have been developed abroad by the U.S. military and U.S. allies. So to see them turn against the American people really in reaction to the Trump election in 2016.”
Members of the X community celebrated Musk’s answer and his stalwart defense of intrinsically American principles:
Elon Musk just said on an X space that he is willing to go to prison if the government criminally asks him to engage in censorship / suppression of free speech.
IT’S GETTING REAL 🔥🔥🔥
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) December 10, 2023
This is why I have so much respect for Elon Musk!
He said that he is PREPARED TO GO TO PRISON if the FBI comes to him in 2024 and tells him to censor information illegally.@elonmusk is a PATRIOT!!!
— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) December 10, 2023
“I would be prepared to go to prison personally, if I think they are the ones breaking to law.”
Elon Musk tells @JackPosobiec that he does not plan on bending the knee to the establishment. pic.twitter.com/seapxwEGzD
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) December 10, 2023
Shellenberger penned this op-ed in The New York Post explaining the inner workings of the censorship-industrial complex:
And indeed the US government has been funding others to “do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly.”
The brains of the complex reside in four organizations — the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and Graphika, with murky ties to the Department of Defense, the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
ADVERTISEMENTThey appear to be working with multiple US government agencies to institutionalize censorship research and advocacy within dozens of other universities and think tanks.
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