Elon Musk stated that Twitter will cover the legal costs of anybody who suffered unfair treatment at the hands of their employers as a result of their liking or uploading information on the social media site now known as “X.”
Musk stated this week, “We will pay for any legal fees if your employer treated you unfairly as a result of something you posted or liked on our platform. No restrictions. Please inform us.”
Musk said, “And we won’t just file a lawsuit; it will be very public, and we’ll target the companies’ boards of directors as well.”
The declaration came shortly after 25-year-old NASCAR driver Noah Gragson had been suspended indefinitely over liking a George Floyd meme on social media sites.
Musk was bombarded with requests from people who would benefit from the new policy shortly after making the statement about covering the legal costs of those whose employment was terminated due to their social media activities.
Writer David Volodzko, who was dismissed from the Seattle Times this past month, is one possible example of cancellation. Volodzko argued in his debut newspaper editorial that a statue honoring Russian Communist hero Vladimir Lenin should not be removed from the Fremont district of Seattle.
“I only needed the opportunity to talk about my own refugee grandparents, preparing pelmeni along with my babushka, as well as my grandfather Josef, the Nazi killer that I was named after,” Volodzko stated of the inspiration for the piece. “I noted Lenin’s genocidal slaughter, mass executions, forced relocations, and secret police raids.”
Volodzko acknowledged that he was wrong when he tweeted the article.
“But I did make a mistake when I uploaded the column on Twitter which compared Lenin to Hitler,” he said. I stated, “In reality, while Hitler has evolved into the great icon of evil in history texts, he too was less wicked than Lenin since Hitler exclusively targeted those he himself considered were bad to society whereas Lenin attacked individuals who he himself did not feel were harmful in any manner.”
The argument, according to Volodzko, was based on the fact that “communist leaders—Mao, Stalin, and Pol Pot—have a much higher body count compared to fascists.”
Volodzko was accused of supporting Adolf Hitler by the angry mob.
Six days after publishing Volodzko’s essay, The Seattle Times dismissed him.
Regarding the plight of the sacked journalist, Musk remarked, “This does appear to sound like a good case.”
The firing of Kara Lynne by Limited Run Games in January caught Musk’s attention as well.
According to a recent article by TheBlaze, “A woman was terminated from a gaming company just this month shortly after a ‘trans’ Twitter user labeled her a ‘transphobe’ that follows ‘right-wing transphobic creeps’ while using the social media site.”
Actress Gina Carano, podcaster Anthony Cumia, ex-Brand president of Levi Strauss & Company Jennifer Sey, as well as comedian Josh Denny also spoke out after losing their jobs for engaging in personal behavior on Twitter.
Advocates for free expression praised Musk’s promise to combat the cancel culture.
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