Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover: what will change, is free speech at risk and should you delete the app?

Billionaire’s buyout of social media company reignites debate about leaving the platform but is it too soon to act – and where could you go?

and his promises to revamp the social media platform have reignited debate about whether it’s time to leave the website permanently. But is that too hasty? How do you leave? And where would you go?It seems every few months there’s a wave of people announcing they are quitting. Some do it permanently, while others make the big announcement only to return weeks or months later.

Australian lobby group Digital Rights Watch has expressed concern that while Musk claims the takeover is about free speech, it’s actually about power.“While free speech is important, you have to account for asymmetries of power and other barriers that stop people from speaking freely,” chair Lizzie O’Shea said.

Electronic Frontiers Foundation said any move away from allowing anonymous accounts on the platform would have the effect of reducing free speech.

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