Musk hopes to transform Twitter with few free speech restrictions, a move that could threaten civil rights, the National Urban League said.
"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy," Musk wrote in a letter sent to Taylor and disclosed in a. "However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
Musk, who's been known to attack journalists and others critical of him and his company, has an unclear definition of free speech. "A good sign as to whether there's free speech is: Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? And if that is the case, then we have free speech," Musk said Thursday at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Musk has referred to himself as a "free speech absolutist," and said he thinks Twitter's algorithm should be public so that users have greater control over the tweets they see in their news feed. He acknowledged there should be some content moderation, like around explicit calls for violence, and said, "Twitter should match the laws of the country."
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