Elon Musk claims Harris will shut down X if she becomes next US president

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday (Nov 4) warned that if Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris comes to power she will shut down social media platformX by all means.

“There’s no way that the Kamala Harris puppet regime would allow X to exist,” said the billionaire, while speaking at 'The Joe Rogan Experience'podcast.

Speaking about Musk's acquisition of X for billions of dollars, podcaster Joe Rogan said, "If you didn't do it, no one would have. And here's the hilarious narrative that I keep hearing from idiots. ‘Elon's a bad businessman. Twitter is worth, you know, 400% less than when he bought it.’ No, it wasn't worth that in the first place. It wasn't worth $44 billion, you f---ing morons. Wrong. And also, you're not taking into account the advertiser boycott. That's total bulls---."

Musk said that he agrees that theOrwellian-named Center for Countering Digital Hate was a "total scam organisation" and called the group a "censorship organisation" that "pushed the advertisers to boycott."

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Musk's X Corp last year sued the Centre for Countering Digital Hate for publishing "misleading claims" and exaggerating the harmful content's prevalence on X to thwart investment from advertisers.

The X ownerstated that they have lessened some aspects of the boycott, however, the US presidentialelection will be decisive in the battle between freedom of speech and government censorship.

Musk says 'If Kamala wins...'

"I think if Trump wins, we'll see, you know, probably most of the boycott will lift. But if Kamala wins, we'll see that boycott gets stronger and they’ll friggin’ shut [it] down. There's no way that a Kamala puppet regime would allow X to exist," said Musk.

"You really think that they'll be able to shut it down, though? Is there a pathway to that?" quizzed the podcast host and later inquired, "What would they do?"

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"They can sic the DOJ [Department of Justice] on you know, and say like, you know, they've got this whole thing about like hate speech, misinformation or whatever, except that they're the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn't stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and using the DOJ," Musk answered.

Earlier in another interview while speaking about the time when he purchased X, Musk said, “At the time, I think I said, ‘Look, this is existential to the United States. It’s existential to democracy'. If you don’t have freedom of speech, you don’t have democracy. If you don’t have freedom of speech, people cannot make an informed vote. If they are just being fed propaganda and there is no freedom of speech, democracy is an illusion.”

(With inputs from agencies)