Early this morning, Elon Musk did the right thing and suspended Ye’s Twitter account after the deranged rapper-turned-xenophobic demagogue managed to do the impossible: make the morally and literally bankrupt Alex Jones look sane by comparison. In a rock-bottom appearance yesterday on Jone’s InfoWars with fiendish miscreant Nick Fuentes, West exclaimed, “I like Hitler,” among other outrageous statements. The same day, he also posted a picture of a swastika inside a Star of David.
Elon Musk deserves kudos for the decision to suspend West’s account. Musk has demonstrated to his detractors that he can be a responsible steward of the platform, cultivating an environment of open discourse with less politically biased content moderation while still maintaining certain guardrails. As a private company, Twitter is well within its rights to enforce such guardrails.
Musk should stay the course. He hasn’t been perfect, but he seems to be taking “the bird” in the right direction.