According to Reuters, the Western world's big sanctions against Russia have reached the point where "migratory birds have to draw a clear line with Russia." After the sanctions occurred, apple, Microsoft and other large companies have announced follow-up delisting, and then various Western international organizations, associations, chambers of commerce have also expressed their sanctions against Russia, the Olympic Committee, the Football Federation, these more influential groups need to issue a separate statement condemnation, and even the "Russian sister cities" in the United States have been canceled. Under the fierce network public opinion in Europe and the United States, if there are still people who dare to defend Russia or continue to do business, the consequences can be imagined.
However, this is really a "hard-headed" person, the world's richest man, Tesla president Musk published an article on social platforms this afternoon, in response to more and more people asking him to approve the removal of Russia's position from the "Starlink" news, and block all Russian media, Musk firmly refused. He posted: "Some government (not Ukraine) has asked me to block Russian news sources, and I will never compromise until I am pointed at a gun!" Musk continues at the end: "I am an absolute liberal of speech."
His tweet garnered more than 20,000 interactions in just two hours, most of which advised Musk to "stop talking." They claimed that such freedom was unavoidable, and some agitated people accused him of being a "Russian spy who had infiltrated the United States"; because the Russian media was spreading a cloud of information about what position it was taking, which would "interfere with certain facts". Some people believe that in the first time of the war, large media platforms such as Twitter and Google restricted the traffic of these accounts of the Russian Satellite News Agency, and they "do not need Russia to defend themselves." This is also one of the reasons why the external network is currently hyping up Ukrainian public opinion so fiercely, that is, "all articles with a Russian stance cannot be seen by the majority."
However, there are also comments that are unhappy with the Biden administration praising Musk's approach, arguing that he is implying that he is threatened by the US government (i.e., "certain governments" in the article). There is speculation that the reason why he will openly oppose the sanctions against the Russian media is because Musk and Biden himself are very incompatible, Biden wants to develop the new energy industry in the United States, but ignores Musk's Tesla company to advertise for his competitor Ford (also a long-term democratic funder), so angry musk on Twitter to rebuke Biden as a "controlled puppet"; there are also people who worry that he may be retaliated against repeatedly using influence to attack the US government, and Biden "is not as broad-minded as Trump." ”
It is also worth mentioning that Chinese netizens have different views on this matter. One key message is that the "Starlink" system has not matured, and now it is the stage of global promotion, and Musk can use "freedom of speech" to obtain more national markets. That's why he publicly stated that his platform can not be influenced and controlled by the US government, and when the market opens in the future, they can still "not succumb to US censorship", can a company be independent of the control of the US government? This is obviously an unlikely thing to do.