This is entirely consistent with free speech. Impersonation and parody are still allowed on Twitter.
Musk was just offering to add a blue check mark to accounts that agreed to certain terms, including identifying impersonation and parody as such.
Why should making an agreement and honoring it be so hard?
Of course he should have known that there are a lot of trolls who wouldn't honor the agreement, and that's on him, but it's disconcerting to see so many people cheering the trolls on.
A lot of people were doing a lot of work on hard things, Musk showed up insisting they were actually easy and those people were incompetent for not having solved them before, or maybe weren't even really trying. ("just ask people to make an agreement and honor it" is your solution, really?) So people are pleased to see Musk get a comeuppence there.
> ("just ask people to make an agreement and honor it" is your solution, really?)
It's not my solution, it's Musk's, and I agree it was naive. (But to be fair, that was only part of his solution - the other part was that Twitter was enforcing the agreement.)
I'm just saying that getting service terminated for failing to honor the agreement is not a free speech issue.
Musk was just offering to add a blue check mark to accounts that agreed to certain terms, including identifying impersonation and parody as such.
Why should making an agreement and honoring it be so hard?
Of course he should have known that there are a lot of trolls who wouldn't honor the agreement, and that's on him, but it's disconcerting to see so many people cheering the trolls on.