Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter represents a chilling new threat: billionaire trolls taking over social media
by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing. In the suit, the agency alleges that minority employees were subjected to a culture of harassment and forced to perform dehumanizing, degrading work at the company's factory in Fremont, California. The lawsuit also alleges that Black employees were segregated to another part of the factory that employees sometimes referred to as"the monkey station" or"the slave ship" or"the plantation.
These words have violent meanings. Racial slurs are unacceptable because they are dehumanizing. They carry the weight of hundreds of years of inequality and abuse. They make people feel less-than and foster toxicity. Back in 2017, in response to a previous allegation of racial discrimination at Tesla, Musk wrote a letter, in part:"if someone is a jerk to you, but sincerely apologizes, it is important to be thick-skinned and accept that apology." He also added:"If you are part of a less represented group, you don't get a free pass on being a jerk yourself.
When Musk uses"free speech" as a defense for this kind of behavior, it shows he does not understand the concept. He's cloaking himself in the language of free speech to justify bullying the people who make his favorite social media toy. As a Twitter board member, he would have been limited in his ability to menace the company into behaving more like him. As the sole owner and power user, he would be free to do so.
It has taken years of failures for Twitter to separate the concept of free speech from the practice of moderating its platform. Now in comes Musk, hell bent on muddying the waters again for his benefit. Do not be confused. Whatever Musk is using his billions to do with Twitter isn't about high minded ideals, or making the platform better for users as a whole — it's about Elon Musk.
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