Elon Musk slams Twitter for ‘going too far in squashing dissenting opinions’ over suspending Jordan Peterson for deadnaming Elliot Page – weeks after Tesla CEO’s son filed to change gender
- Elon Musk blasted website in suspending Jordan Peterson on Elliot Page
- The anti-woke Canadian psychologist had his Twitter account removed for June 22 tweet talking about Page’s transition to a man on Pride
- This was Peterson’s latest attack on Twitter with him launching into a tirade at Sports Illustrated for putting swimsuit model, Yumi Nu, on front page
Elon Musk has slammed Twitter for kicking Jordan Peterson off the social media platform for a tweet that deadnamed Elliot Page.
The billionaire blasted the website ‘for going way too far’ in suspending the psychologist for his posts about the transgender actor.
The anti-woke Canadian had his account disabled for negative posts about Page’s transition to a man.
He also appeared to make homophobic comments, writing: ‘Remember when pride was a sin?’
The tweet was his latest online tirade, with him earlier slamming Sports Illustrated for putting plus sized swimsuit model Yumi Nu on the front page.
Musk weighed into the row two weeks after his son Xavier, 18, announced she was trans and wanted to be called Vivian Jenna Wilson.
The teenager was granted the right to change her name and gender, after declaring she no longer wishes to be related to her biological father ‘in any way.’
Musk wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: ‘Yeah, they’re going way too far in squashing dissenting opinions.’
He was replying to a message on the social network which read: ‘BTW, did you see that JBP was recently banned from the bird app? Strange times.’
Peterson was kicked off the popular website on June 22, but was given 12 hours to redeem himself but chose not to, saying he would ‘rather die’ than delete it.
He had written: ‘Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.’
He later took to his Instagram and YouTube page and posted a 15-minute video, standing by his remarks.
Peterson said: ‘The suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the hateful tweet in question. And I would rather die than do that.
‘What was it that I said that caused such a fuss? What exactly was it that I said that resulted in the ban?’
His daughter Mikhaila shared a screenshot of the original tweet and the message from Twitter that her father received.
It is not the first time the psychologist has got in trouble for his comments, having been called out for remarks about model Yumi Nu earlier this year.
He said she was ‘not beautiful’ when she appeared on the front cover of Sports Illustrated magazine.
He told The Telegraph in May: ‘The use of that model, who was not athletic (remember: SPORTS Illustrated) was manipulative economically and in relation to the model herself (although she participated in her own exploitation).
‘Beauty is an ideal. Almost all of us fall short of an ideal. I’m not willing to sacrifice any ideal to faux compassion. Period. And certainly not the ideal of athletic beauty.’
He added he deleted his Twitter account from his personal devices to prevent him ‘from reading comments from anonymous trolls’ who insisted he was ‘a white supremacist’ and a ‘transphobe’.