It is unfortunate that social media platforms are still shaping what people say online. If there is one thing that Elon Musk hates about Twitter, it's that it suppresses free speech. Join us today in this blog, as we explore, Elan's take on free speech on Twitter though. A prolific Twitter user, the Tesla billionaire hates the giant social media platform for limiting free speech.
The tag icon is a free speech absolutist who does not shy away from expressing his thoughts on social media. At times, his tweets have made him clash with the government. A couple of days before the tech guru could buy a stake in Twitter, he conducted an online poll to help improve whether the social media platform promotes free speech.
His tweet reads free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this? Out of the more than 2 million people who participated in the poll. 70% of them said that Twitter does not adhere to the principle of free speech. A day later that Tesla CEO came back to the social media platform and asked other Twitter users to help him determine the solution to the problem he tweeted.
Given that Twitter serves as the defacto public town square failing to adhere to free speech principles, fundamentally undermines democracy, or what should be done as an avid Twitter user. Elon Musk hates the state that the free speech is highly limited in the communication plan. After carefully thinking about the issue of free speech on Twitter, the world's richest man made a decision to come to the rescue of the social media platform.
After raising the issue on the social media site, the Tesla founder went for action. When he bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, in his sec, filing the Tesla CEO said that he decided to invest in Twitter after it failed to promote free speech. Part of the SCC document that was filed. 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. Most of the Twitter users were excited about the news of Ilan acquiring a stake in Twitter. The hopes of seeing reforms on the communication site increased when Ilan was given a seat at the board. One of the reforms that most people wanted is for the platform to have an edit.
However things took a quick turn. When the Tesla founder declined the offer, although he had accepted it earlier on, he rejected the offer on the morning of the 9th of April, the day when his appointment to the board was going to be effective. But it is the events of the 14th of April that showed that Musk had a major issue with Twitter.
When he made an offer of taking it private for $54 and 20 cents per share, which amounts to $43 billion. And the U S security exchange commission. The test, the owner made it clear that he wanted to take the company private so that he can reform it by fixing some issues. The tech guru has an objective of reforming Twitter so that it can promote free speech must believe that the changes he wants to make will not be realized when Twitter is public, which informs his choice of taking the company.
Private. This was clearly stated in the document that was filed with the sec and. However, since making my investment, I now realize that company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company. If you can rest assured that Elon Musk will transform Twitter as a free speech absolutist first, he will ensure that Twitter is a platform where people are free to say what they want.
Secondly, the tech icon will make open all the Twitter algorithm. The tech genius faults, Twitter for its algorithms that determine what people are able to see. The tech billionaire took issue with the Twitter algorithms while attending a Ted 20, 22 conference in Vancouver. He said having a black box algorithm, promote some things and not other things.
I think this can be quite daunting. As such the platform has powers to influence what the users in different parts of the world are able to see of the crypto king is also expected to allow Twitter users to make their subscriptions using crypto. The Tesla CEO will choose doge coin over other coins as he is a great supporter of doge coin.
There are very few social media platforms that guarantee free speech and privacy. Twitter on its end does not promote free speech and will block anyone who posts something that they do not agree with. The big question is how Twitter determines what their users need to post and what they should not post.
There is every possibility that the decision may be made in a biased way. What could be offensive? Speech to one person may not be offensive to another person that there is every indication that Musk is working on a new social media platform that will promote free speech. It is a platform where people will be free to speak their mind without restrictions.
There is no doubt that Musk social media platform will give Twitter and giant communication platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp, a run for their money signal and telegram, or some of the social media platforms that promote free speech. The users on the platforms are free to post what they want. The browser duck, duck go is also good as it guarantees private.
Most of the other browsers cannot be trusted as they can be used to track the browsing history of a person. Even after deleting your browsing history, the files can be accessed and recovered by unauthorized parties using free file recovery tools available on the web free speech was on trial. When Twitter kicked out, president Donald Trump out of the platform, Trump was accused of using the site to condone instead of condemning his supporters who had attacked the Capitol in the final days of his presence.
Most of Trump's supporters were annoyed by Twitter's move of banning the president from the site as such. They also ditch the microblogging site and instead embraced free speech sites, such as telegram and signal. In October, 2021, president Trump started truth social, which is a free speech and open source distributed social network.
Nevertheless, the site is yet to have a global presence as it can only be accessed in the U S and Canada. Moreover, it is iOS users who can access. The social media platform is also facing a number of technical hitches. While a number of the executives in the social media platform have equally resigned the level of biases and the various social media platforms kills free speech in Twitter and other social media platforms.
It is possible that you will be punished for a certain mistake while other people will be excused over the same. In the past Twitter algorithms have been accused of promoting the content of right-wing politicians at the expense of left wing political figures as such free speech is greatly compromised.
Since most of the people will only see the content of right-wing politicians, even in the midst of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Elon Musk proved that he is a firm believer in free speech. When he tweeted, saying Sterling has been told by some governments not Ukraine to block Russian news source.
We will not do so unless I'd gunpoint, sorry to be a free speech, absolutist social media and the media in general influences how people understand particular subjects. For example, in the war in Eastern Europe, some Russian news outlets justify the conflict while the Western media is condemning Putin for the.
In some instances, Kiev and Moscow have given conflicting information over a number of soldiers that have died in the conflict. Therefore, the media has a role of authenticating everything before it is relayed to the public free speech is good. As it creates a platform where people can criticize the government without any interference, most democratic nations have highly embraced the concept of free speech, where the citizens say what they want.
We are optimistic that Elon Musk will get a chance of promoting free speech on Twitter. When he finally takes it private. If the bid is not successful, Elon Musk will certainly create a social media platform that promotes free speech. What Elan hates. He solves anyways, guys, if you want to see more interesting videos, click the video right above.
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