Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of X platform, has stirred the pot once again with his provocative comments about the state of free speech in Europe. Amidst the recent arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging service Telegram, Musk took to social media to express his dis...
skip to main content tech elon musk, self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist,” says twitter will treat “cisgender” as a slur the billionaire is not ceo anymore—and yet, he’s seemingly still changing the platform’s rules on a dime. by caleb ecarma june 21, 2023 by nathan laine/...
Musk has characterized himself as a First Amendment and free speech advocate for years, for example, in defending himself in a defamation lawsuit after calling a critic a "pedo guy" (Musk won), and to argue that the SEC infringed on his rights in asettlementagreement they struck and revised...
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk wondered aloud on Twitter whether another platform is needed, causing his millions of followers to call for him to buy the social media giant. "Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamen...
Elon Musk’s $44bn education on free speech He has had a crash course in the trade-offs in protecting free expression 他在保护言论自由的权衡方面有一个速成课程 Elon musk’s two months running Twitter has been an unhappy experiment. The social network’s 250m users have endured a wearying ...
Elon Musk has polled his 80 million followers about whether they’d like to be able to edit their tweets, after becoming Twitter’s biggest shareholder. Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal is paying attention.
In the months before Elon Musk took over Twitter, he declared himself a free speech absolutist. He elucidated his point on that same platform. “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy,” he twe...
Elon Musk is facing allegations of being complicit with state censorship after Twitter appeared to take sides with India's government in a turbulent free speech fight over a documentary critical of the country's prime minister. The fight revolves around a new documentary from the BBC that...
Musk seems to have a libertarian ideal that markets should be free from any regulation, but that ideal has two limitations in the context of speech. First, a platform such as Twitter is more of a commons than a market, since there are no prices to regulate how people contribute content. ...
Musk is a self-described “free speech absolutist” who thinks Twitter has the “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe,” and believes “free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.” Liberals who love tweeting about how moral...