AUSTIN, TEXAS: Recently, UFC commentator Joe Rogan praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk for buying X, formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in April 2022, giving users a platform to post about controversial topics that may be censored on other apps.
This comes after the 56-year-old stand-up comedian raged against cancel culture, voicing his support for free speech.
Joe Rogan praises Elon Musk's bold move of acquiring X
On the latest 'Fight Companion' episode of the 'Joe Rogan Experience' podcast, the Texas resident spoke about how social media has changed over the years and praised his friend Elon Musk.
Speaking about the internet, Joe Rogan revealed it had changed over the years. From being a place of absolute free speech, where anybody may say and discuss anything, to being a much more sterilized and censored zone.
He described how the pressure to impose control on their platforms increased after the government became engaged in social media and marketers followed suit, changing the internet significantly from only a few years earlier.
Rogan said, “Well things have totally changed once the government got involved in censoring social media and all the tech platforms came on board with it. And all the advertisers put pressure on them, that changed everything."
He further quipped, "Because you think about how wild the internet was and then how tame network television was. Network television is now slightly less tame. And the internet is way different."
Praising Musk, he said, “And until Elon bought Twitter, we were kind of f****d because there was not one place where you could just wildly talk s**t."
Rogan went on to say, "And you go on Twitter any day of the week, you see Obama’s wife is a man and all kinds of crazy s**t. A lot of porn, so much porn on Twitter.”
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to X
When Twitter announced a name change in July 2023, the internet was taken aback. Well, Musk broke the Internet after he officially rebranded Twitter to X, also changing the logo from the iconic blue bird to a simple X.
According to newly appointed CEO Linda Yaccarino, the rebranding is a further step in Twitter's continuous metamorphosis from what was previously a social network for highly connected individuals into an app that can do "everything".
"Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the everything app," Elon Musk stated in a now-deleted tweet.
"The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video," he wrote.
Musk concluded by noting, "In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world."
