Does Twitter have a double standard for free speech?

Twitter owner Elon Musk spent his Friday tweeting about a topic that gets conservatives censored on the platform. He voiced support for a new Florida law banning sex change surgery for minors.

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“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life,” he tweeted. Twitter did not censor the tweet which was viewed nearly 22 million times, despite the platform’s rampant censorship of other users who criticize “transgenderism.”

Indeed, Twitter allowed Musk to publicly support the new Florida law banning hormone blockers and “gender reassignment surgery” but the platform censored Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for expressing the same beliefs. Just last month Twitter reduced the visibility of a video from the governor’s State of the State speech, according to a screenshot from Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik.

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