Elon Musk, the boss of the social network X and its 177 million subscribers, supports Martin Sellner, leading figure of the identity movement in Austria. Arrested and returned from the canton of Aargau in Switzerland two days ago, the far-right politician was able to complain about it on the American platform where he has just been readmitted after four years of exclusion due to his hate speech.
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The Swiss police announced that they had arrested and returned the Austrian Martin Sellner, a figure in the radical identity movement, who was to participate in a meeting of around a hundred people organized by the small far-right group Junge Tat. The meeting was to be held in a hall in the small village of Tegerfelden, about forty kilometers northwest of Zurich, near the German border. The police add that they were able to “ prevent the arrival of political adversaries » to avoid possible clashes.
Junge Tat is a small far-right group known for its spectacular actions and its identity-based ideology. He is resolutely opposed to non-European immigrants and Islam and is also a supporter of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.
Freedom of expression especially for the far right
But for Elon Musk, freedom of expression is absolute. No question of filtering online content. Even the most scabrous ones. Because according to him, moderation, in other words the monitoring and sorting of messages on social networks, is propaganda. This is why dozens of extremist accounts have resurfaced on the X platform since it became its owner.
Several figures from the ultra-right therefore praise him. And Martin Sellner did not hold back. Founder of the identity movement which advocates the superiority of the white man over all others and close to the author of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand which left 51 dead in two mosques in 2019, Martin Sellner, banned from social network since 2020, resumed service on X last week. And he immediately thanked Elon Musk. The latter adds by wondering if it is really normal for Sellner to be banned from residence by a Swiss canton because of his racist remarks. Provocation or not, no one knows, but the fascist sphere is rubbing its hands.
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