Yes you would aka free speech can have consequences. Just like getting suspended/banned etc from a private social media company is a consequence of spewing vile hate speech, misinformation, and inciting people towards violence.
Elon has stated that he wants directives carried out, or explain why he's wrong. Doing this on Twitter isn't a good idea though, and the attitude of that employee was recalcitrant at best. I would never talk to my boss (especially the CEO) like that on a public platform.
Hell, humans can barely cope with a valid spelling correction. Seriously. People will argue until the next asteroid strike over a spelling error THEY got wrong simply because it was pointed out in public, and generally people don't correct spelling in public because of the heat it brings. There are brave sorts who will especially if it's clearly not a typo, but there's a cost to it. Sometimes the spelling error is so bad that the person being corrected was writing the opposite of what they meant, e.g.;
"I'm really glad to be apart of this group."
"*a part"
*RAGE*.
I love those posts on Reddit where someone misspells 'lose', 'you're', or 'too' (inevitably) and there are 200+ likes for the spelling correction. I specifically look for those, lol.
Elon's not afraid to start over when something isn't working rather than polishing a turd to save face. If Elon is firing someone they probably deserved it. Allegedly some people were asked back so I'm curious about those specific examples if they're not FUD from the Left (like the epithets some tried to associate with Elon). Dirty tricks are everywhere.
The problem with the phrase "vile hate speech" is that it's up to interpretation. If a TERF (trans-exclusive radical feminist) says that trans women aren't women (they're trans women); is this hate speech? I don't think so. In fact I would say it's just true, but I will still use their preferred pronouns. But, I wouldn't support trans women in women's sports where developing male makes a difference.
So, this ideological premise 'trans women are women' sets up ALL female athletes for failure if this 'logic' is used to support the idea that trans women should be allowed to compete against CIS/Bio-women in female sport, such as handball, weightlifting, MMA, etc., where male development prior to transition makes an enormous difference. TERFs often get attacked but their position is anything but 'hate speech', though old Twitter basically banned someone for similar speech (for life, I believe). The stories are a search away.
Heck, even the word 'female' is under fire from the left, but they'll happily use the term 'male' everywhere, including where we're being insulted en masse. Is this 'hate speech'? I wouldn't be surprised if the lowest common safe space denominators claimed as much.
Was James Damore using 'hate speech' when he said that there's more of a choice gap (between men and women in STEM) to explain the difference in candidate numbers? No. Yet he was fired by Google and viciously attacked by the left who mischaracterized his position as much as possible, including calling his memo a 'manifesto'. Damore simply referred to the interest gap based on the big five psych traits that differ generally between the sexes. This is about the rule of course and not the exception. I'm very curious what kind of enormous settlement Damore got from Google, heh.
Is it 'hate speech' to be an atheist among a majority of believers? One of the older extended definitions of 'atheist' in dictionaries was 'wicked', and it was used synonymously. This has mostly fallen out of favor, but we still don't see many politicians who run as explicit atheists because it's still considered political suicide, though things are a-changin'.
This is why being an advocate of free speech is SO important and the platform has to support it, assuming one cares about diversity (of thought). Labeling something 'hate speech' simply assumes what it seeks to prove, and is logically fallacious. That doesn't mean hate doesn't exist. It certainly does, but we should interrogate the idea in a forum free of ideological thumbs on the scale.
That's just one of the reasons Elon bought Twitter, and I would say it's a primary reason. This stuff about monetization and verification is just administrative work that'll take a bit of experimentation to get right. The important bit here is that the bird is freed, and Twitter will find its balance soon enough with Elon steering the ship away from the prior thought-crime dystopia.
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