Changing ones views is fine, I would hope that we all update our views as we get a little older and wiser, but his whole raison d'être for the twitter acquisition was the pursuit of free speech.
He made a bunch of very recent, very public, and very direct commitments to that effect, and now he is backtracking on it.
It's absolutely something that he should reconcile with and address.
> He backtracks it because he prioritizes his family's safety. Is that a bad thing in your view?
It's bad that he's seemingly only interested in protecting his own. The moderation he decried as part of the Twitter takeover is often the sort of thing that's protecting others from harms of this nature.
If this helps him turn over a new leaf on the concept of "legal speech can still be dangerous to people and some of it shouldn't be on Twitter", great. I'll believe it if I see it.
> He even tweeted the new policy that tracking people in real-time is not ok.
That new policy is a hastily written ex post facto justification for the action he wanted to take. I think everyone suspects, with good reason, that it'll be inconsistently applied.
Let's not kid ourselves. All of us are mostly concerned about our own kids.
If we were concerned about other kids, we would drop everything right now and spend all of our time finding kidnapped kids instead. There are thousands of missing kids right now.
We would tell senates (or vote) to spend 10B or 50B a year of tax money finding missing kids. We would make it the top priority of the nation. We don't even do that
Musk being concerned about his own kids doesn't seem out of line.
Also, which kids are getting stalked by Musk? Maybe I missed the news
Yes, but he's not in charge of the largest megaphone on the planet, which Elon Musk has used to previously advertise his stance on the subject. To see him publicly retract that and re-state his new position rather than to have to infer it from his actions would help.
'Quietly updating your opinion' is a right reserved to those that quietly held it in the first place.
That's fine but he should at least admit he has been a hypocrite and stop attacking Twitters moderation policies.