Taking Twitter To The Free Speech Moon Won't Be Easy For Elon Musk
Elon Musk is no stranger to the Moon but taking Twitter to those dizzy heights won’t be an easy or straightforward task, and especially in terms of free speech. Through SpaceX, Musk plans on taking humans to the Moon, literally. Through the backing of crypto projects like Dogecoin, Musk has often been credited with helping meme coins get closer to the Moon, figuratively. With the popular tech figure now in the process of taking over Twitter, many might be expecting a similar impact. However, and while there undoubtedly will be changes, how much can actually change remains to be seen.
Like many other social media services in 2022, Twitter has a content problem. More specifically, a moderation of content problem and this has led to various changes already. To name a couple, adding labels to Tweets deemed problematic for various reasons and allowing people to choose who can reply to posts. In some of the more extreme cases, accounts have been outright banned. These bans are often explained away as repeated violations of Twitter’s guidelines, but to others, it is simply a matter of silencing speech. To some, Twitter is not just silencing, but attacking free speech.
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Musk apparently plans to stop this ‘attack’ from continuing. Before a deal for Twitter was done and confirmed, Musk had already made clear that Twitter has a free speech problem and one that he hoped to help solve. In the announcement confirming the deal, Musk again referred to free speech, Twitter’s so-called ‘digital town square’ status, and the need for a more open platform in general. Even going so far as to state that the mysterious algorithm blamed for many of Twitter’s decisions will be open-sourced
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