Elon Musk Wants Free Speech at Twitter After Spending Years Silencing Critics
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"Elon Musk Want To Allow Some People to Violate Twitter Terms of Service After Spending Years Silencing Critics". That seems more accurate.
I honestly don't get this sort of thing. The USA has a legal system that prioritizes private property. The USA has spent the last 40 years making it clear that anyone has freedom of speech, but nobody has to listen to it, and most certainly nobody has to pay to spread anyone else's speech. Trump comes along an all that goes out the window - Twitter must carry Trump's TOS-violating speech? Seems hypocritical in the extreme.
That right has brought freedom and prosperity everywhere it's been implemented with minimal restrictions.
Twitter has become a public platform/forum/news outlet at this point. It's hard for anyone to argue with that, since people go there to get their news and to hear what prominent figures have to say.
Regardless of all that, shouldn't we be insisting that American companies retain core American values? The market can't select for those values since Twitter has no direct competitors, which makes the case for it being a platform even stronger.
Lack of legal repercussions is also not lack of social repercussions.
Maybe we should be insisting on American companies retaining core American values, but that's not the legal environment they operate in, which is one of "fiduciary duty" only.