{"id":1438843,"date":"2022-04-14T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438843"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:15:26","slug":"elon-musk-on-twitter-free-speech-important-to-the-future-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-on-twitter-free-speech-important-to-the-future-of-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk on Twitter: Free Speech &#039;Important to the Future of Civilization&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-on-twitter-free-speech-important-to-the-future-of-civilization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438843&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Elon-Musk.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, the world\u2019s richest person, and recently the largest shareholder in Twitter who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-100-percent-of-twitter-restore-free-speech\/\">now offering to buy the company in its entirety<\/a>, reiterated his statements in support of online free speech today.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview at TED 2022, the mega-billionaire also said there is a \u201cplan B\u201d if Twitter\u2019s board does not accept his offer to buy out the company, but would not elaborate on what that plan is.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> Asked Whether There Is A Plan B If Twitter Does Not Accept His Offer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hetXpBsH5X\">pic.twitter.com\/hetXpBsH5X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Columbia Bugle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbiaBugle\/status\/1514667129664008192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interview, Musk said that his motivations for purchasing Twitter were not primarily financial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,\u201d said Musk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care about the economics at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tech mogul went on to describe his own definition of free speech, and his philosophy on content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf in doubt, let the speech \u2014 let it exist,\u201d said Musk. \u201cIf it\u2019s a grey area, I would say, let the tweet exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in a case where there\u2019s perhaps a lot of controversy, you would not necessarily want to promote that tweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not saying I have all the answers here,\u201d continued Musk. \u201cBut I do think that we want to be very reluctant to delete things, and just be very cautious with permanent bans. Timeouts, I think, are better than permanent bans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a> Laying Out Some Of His Ideas For Twitter<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA good sign as to whether there is free speech: is someone you don&#8217;t like allowed to say something you don&#8217;t like? If that is the case, then we have free speech.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wQVfYYigNI\">pic.twitter.com\/wQVfYYigNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Columbia Bugle \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColumbiaBugle\/status\/1514664034016002049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA good sign as to whether there\u2019s free speech is, is someone you don\u2019t like allowed to say something you don\u2019t like? If that is the case then we have free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it\u2019s damn annoying, when someone you don\u2019t like says something you don\u2019t like. That is a sign of a healthy, functioning, free speech situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s emphasis on his values-based motivations for buying Twitter stock echo what he wrote in his purchase offer to Twitter\u2019s board, disclosed earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/04\/14\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-100-percent-of-twitter-restore-free-speech\/\">In the letter<\/a>, Musk said he believes \u201cfree speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,\u201d but that Twitter will \u201cneither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><strong><em>#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, the world\u2019s richest person, and recently the largest shareholder in Twitter who is now offering to buy the company in its entirety, reiterated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}