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Twitterati accuse Elon Musk of censoring videos of him getting booed at Dave Chappelle show

Some users were furious that earlier videos from the show have been pulled down, accusing Elon Musk of censoring Twitter

ARENA, SAN FRANCISCO: Elon Musk took the stage with boos at the Dave Chappelle show as videos have gone viral. Angry fans have since slammed Musk for allegedly removing the accounts that initially posted the video tweets on Monday, December 11. Musk, Twitter’s new owner, was with Chris Rock on a Sunday night show at the Chase Center in San Francisco. Dave Chappelle is heard asking the audience to "make some noise for the richest man in the world" as he announces Musk on stage.

The crowd in the video is heard welcoming the multi-millionaire wearing an “I Love Twitter” T-shirt and being greeted with a mix of cheers and heavy boos as well. "Cheers and boos, I say," Chappelle reacts. Chappelle joked to Musk: “Sounds like some of those people you fired.” As the boos continued to ring out, the comic pointed out that “All you people booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious — are in terrible seats,” reported WJTV.

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Musk remained on stage while the other artists from the evening, including Rock, Donnell Rawlings from "Chappelle's Show," and the hip-hop trio Black Star, came up to say goodbye. Musk was prompted to recite Rawlings' catchphrase from their iconic performance, "I'm wealthy b—-," by Chappelle. First Rawlings spoke, then Musk followed suit. At that point, Chappelle pleaded with the audience not to jeer Musk since he was needed for the first comedy club on Mars to open. Additionally, he asked Musk if he could assist Talib Kweli of Black Star, who Chappelle said had been suspended from Twitter.

Twitterati reacted to the videos from the show where Musk is receiving "heavy boos". Some users were furious that earlier videos from the show have been pulled down, accusing Musk of censoring Twitter. The accusation has created a Twitter storm of videos now being shared widely. Some reports identified the deleted Twitter handle as Cleo PatrA, which first posted a video of Musk getting booed and jeered by the audience.

"The original account that posted it has disappeared (either because the fanboys have been sicced on it or something more nefarious, not sure which), so here's Elon Musk being booed at a Dave Chappelle gig last night in San Francisco," said a user. Some pointed out that Musk was transphobic, the same thing Dave has been accused of, as one pointed out in his tweet: "Elon Musk got booed off the stage at a Dave Chappelle show and then immediately jumped on Twitter to attack trans people because the only way he can feel big is to attack some of the most marginalized, unprotected people amongst us. He is a shameless little imp of a man." Some jumped to the conclusion for Elon was transphobic he was anticipating a safe space but even they didn't like him hanging around. "I love that Elon Musk went on stage at a Dave Chappelle show, presumably thinking it'd be a safe space for his transphobic a**, and even that audience booed the shit out of him".

"How ‘bout Elon trying to censor the Chappell “boo” video?" said a tweet, while another read, "Wow, you're advocating censorship? Well, not too surprising since you're trying to censor people who boo you".

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