First someone came and and accused Musk of helping to rig elections on Turkey by suppressing one of the candidates on Twitter.
Musk got mad at him and called him stupid. He said he had to suppress one candidate as was requested by Turkish Gov or else they would turn off all of Twitter.
He basically admits to rigging the election and uses the excuse that they would shut off Twitter in Turkey if he didn’t participate. It’s still wrong either way.
Later he comes back saying all social media sites are doing it because “they have to” but Twitter is the only one being transparent about it. The only reason he’s being transparent is because someone just exposed him.
Musk is deep state. The starlink satellites he runs is a mega spy program to spy on us. The brain chip he made is for mind control. The electric stuff he is pushing for more more control. His mom has all kinds of cult pics. He dressed up as Baphomet for Halloween and occasional throws up the devil horns signs. He’s also a billionaire. No billionaire is a good person.
I think Musk isn't lying about his reasons. He wants to make Twitter the everything app so it has to be legit to tie into bank accounts and such - it can't go underground like Telegram in your example.
Telegram didn't go underground it ignored local laws assisting users to circumvent them and hugely enlarged its userbase.
Size of userbase is the only thing that matters for profit in case of "everything app" too.
If Musk really "wants to make Twitter the everything app", then he have to enlarge its userbase, and by abiding local laws like European or Turkish or whatever he hugely shrink it.
Bank accounts and such have nothing to do with "everything app". Musk already played with Dogecoin and perfectly know that he don't need to be legit anywhere outside USA to creale working financial system for his "everything app" that will be resistant to any local regulations and so will attract even more users and even tunnel noticeable part of money traffic from local instutions to his "everything app".
Durov was not able to start his TON payment project only because US SEC didn't allow him to do that and he account US as his base jusrisdiction. He didn't give any fuck about legality in any other jurisdiction where Telegram is working (i.e. all other jusrisdictions, even those where Telegram is officially banned) at all.
Turkey authorities and legislators have nothing to do with Twitter jurisdiction, so absolutely nothing from that side could be a reason for Musk to refuse to add more users in Turkey.
So censoring political stuff at Turkey request is not about anything connected with "everything app" at all. It just could not be. More likely it was an order from his handlers.
It's a net lose-lose either way. He either is a disruptor and being all coy about it. Or if he is being legit then this is just par for the course because of how large Twitter is and how big corp and big government are so crucial for the business or the brand image that he has to kowtow to their "requests".
In the end someone above Elon somewhere is calling the shots no matter what. Be it a handler or a separate, corrupt figure