Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. Twitter is the digital town square. We therefore deserve someone who is carefully thinking about how it should operate, rather than a ramshackle man-child. ✒️ IanDunt for ipaperviews
The men and women who led the historic fight for free speech were not ‘absolutists’, in this or any other matterIan Dunt: ‘Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. Twitter is the digital town square. We therefore deserve someone who is carefully thinking about how it should operate’
Musk calls himself a “free speech absolutist”. His tweets since the takeover indicate that this approach will now rule on the platform. “The bird is freed,” he tweeted after the takeover. Then: “Comedy is now legal on Twitter.” “Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape”, he said in a message to advertisers last week. “Our platform must be warm and welcoming for all.”
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