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“Which one do you want?”

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with Elon Musk,  right, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, prior to their meeting in Ankara, Turkey,  Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with Elon Musk, right, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, prior to their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Photo: Pool Photo via AP (AP)

Musk defended the decision to censor tweets critical of Erdogan before Turkey’s election in 2023 after liberal commentator Matthew Yglesias pointed out the hypocrisy.

“Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?” Musk tweeted at the time.

Obviously, that’s not what Musk said over the weekend about efforts to censor tweets in Brazil, a country where there are no indications Musk is trying to build a Tesla plant.