Musk, and a lot of his followers, have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the audience-performer dynamic works. What's comedy isn't decided by a policy of a tech company, or by a government. It lives within that dynamic of how an audience reacts. You can't make Musk's posts funny by decree, they have to be funny to the audience.
These people like to lean on 'it was just a joke' or 'you are reading into something'. But many actual comedians have fallen into the right-wing pipeline from the other side - they know their communication is 'just a joke', but they're upsettio that people don't find it funny. When something is just a joke from the perspective of the performer, but doesn't land, it matters. Enough boos and the performer will say they're cancelled, they'll say 'you can't even do comedy anymore'. No, the general 'you' can, everyone can. Comedy is a form of expression that's just always there, it's a dynamic that has existed forever. You in particular cannot do comedy, because the audience doesn't like what you say. No matter what you write in your terms of service.
The audience will read into things, that's how art is. All communication comes with layers of connotation, context, references to other art. Audiences synthesize all this and decide if they find it aesthetic or unaesthetic. We're gonna keep booing.
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