There was a time when both sides recognized the value of free speech Author of the article:By Jesse Kline Published Apr 18, 2022 4 minute read Join the conversation Elon Musk's twitter account is seen on a smartphone in front of the Twitter logo in this photo il...
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. ...
Elon Musk’s $44bn education on free speechHe 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
So Elon Musk bought Twitter under the guise of protecting free speech. The fact that the 1st Amendment only applies to the government, and Twitter was a publicly traded company was as irrelevant as whether or not Musk even understood the distinction. He's not a defender of free speech. He'...
(Reuters) -Mere hours after Elon Musk kicked off a new era at Twitter Inc, the billionaire owner was deluged with pleas and demands from banned account […]
Musk had been publicly calling into question Twitter’s approach to free speech via apoll conducted on his Twitter accounton March 25th. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” the CEO asked, before noting in afollow...
"Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," said Mr. Musk in a statement when the deal was announced Monday. watch now
It’s evident that Musk has failed to fulfill his mandate of ushering in a new era of free speech to the platform. According to a report fromRest of World, based on data from Harvard University’s Lumen Database, in the six months since Musk’s arrival, Twitter’s compliance with govern...
The company said Musk has secured $25.5 billion of financing and will cough up $21 billion of his own funding to buy Twitter. "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk sa...
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...