According to ChainCatcher, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin called on Musk to 'cool it' as his platform sparked a new free speech controversy amidst a heated debate about foreign tech workers.
Musk publicly supports top American companies hiring foreign tech workers, a move that has sparked outrage among conservatives on X, who believe that employment conditions in the U.S. are becoming increasingly unfavorable for domestic citizens.
Vitalik stated that while he admires Musk's willingness to fight for free speech, he urged the Tesla CEO to 'cool it', tone down the 'rhetoric', and stop using the 'social media banhammer' to shut down X accounts.
Vitalik stated: 'It's easy to respect free speech when we agree with the speech, and hard when we find the speech terrible. But the reasons for respecting free speech never change: today the banhammer is in one party's hands, tomorrow it may be in another's.'