Musk rolling out new censorship schemes in response to getting destroyed on the immigration issue shows the insularity of our elites. Musk is better than most since he interacts with normal people on Twitter, but he is still surrounded by flunkies and yes men who think his every utterance is pure genius. He is not used to people mocking his opinions.

If you look at the new rules, it is basically a system for making sure that Musk and his buddies do not see the negative feedback. It is a big account protection system. If you challenge the big follower accounts and they mute you, your replies are slowly hidden based on how many big accounts mute or block you. It is a reputation management system controlled by the big accounts.

In other words, it is a technological implementation of what happens in the meat space. The people who dare question the boss are slowly filtered out or driven to the fringe so the boss and his cronies do not hear them. This is the process that eventually led to a aristocratic class in France that may as well had been space aliens for as much as they knew about France.