Whose speech will Elon Musk’s Twitter be protecting, exactly?
But is Elon Musk really the person to fix these problems, or will he and his version of free speech make them worse?
What’s more, a platform devoid of any content moderation at all is a nightmare from a user-experience perspective. Just look at Gab, Parler or Truth Social: The vast majority of people do not want to spend time on a site where harassment and abuse are rampant. Third, by removing the guardrails of our public sphere, Mr. Musk would invariably be reinvigorating the case for democratic governance. Around the democratic world, governments are beginning to develop new rules for social-media platforms. And while critics of these initiatives often cast them as limiting speech – as Twitter did, in its recent claim that the Canadian government’s approach to an online harms bill was comparable to policies in China, North Korea and Iran – the reality, as Mr.
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