On the same day that Elon Musk is posting that the X platform is reaching all-time highs, former CNN host Don Lemon announced he’s leaving it.
Of course, Lemon felt the need to announce his departure in a video…that he posted on the X platform.
"It's time for me to leave the platform," Lemon said in a video posted Wednesday.
Here's why I'm leaving Twitter... pic.twitter.com/VIope68L2k
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) November 13, 2024
Lemon claimed he no longer believed the platform was the place for open discussion and free speech (he probably preferred the platform when it censored people questioning COVID restrictions and blocking discussions on Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell – before Musk purchased it).
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"In addition, starting this Friday, November 15, X is implementing new terms of service, which among other things states that 'All disputes be brought exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas,’" Lemon added.
Lemon argues the move is to protect X from litigation.
Perhaps Lemon would prefer that all disputes against X be brought in a foreign court with laws that favor censorship.
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not. https://t.co/4lKsaRsYoA
UK’s left-leaning The Guardian also announced on Wednesday it would stop promoting its content on X.
“The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse,” the media outlet said.
Musk responded to The Guardian’s departure in new media terms.
“They are irrelevant.”
That is pretty much how social media also responded to Lemon's announcement.
