1/ @elonmusk seems genuinely to be grappling with two impulses. He wants Twitter to be a place for free speech. But he also wants it to host "accurate" information, as he or some other arbiter sees fit.
The sooner he realizes he must choose one, the better off all of us will be.
The sooner he realizes he must choose one, the better off all of us will be.
2/ The great hope for all of us on Team Reality was that Elon would get Twitter OUT of the content moderation business, that he would bring social media back to its roots as a place where everyone could speak...
3/ And the ugly, messy, necessary business of free speech and debate could be conducted without cease, jour et nuit, until the robots come for us all.
Twitter in particular is especially suited to play this role, which is why authoritarians pay it such close heed.
Twitter in particular is especially suited to play this role, which is why authoritarians pay it such close heed.
4/ But Elon - for reasons I don't claim to understand - has fumbled this first principle along with nearly everything else in the last two weeks. And he needs very quickly to tamp down on the chaos before he breaks Twitter in a way that even he can't fix.
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