{"id":1447089,"date":"2022-04-20T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447089"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:47:07","slug":"elon-musk-generates-controversy-over-what-he-deems-good-twitter-policy-while-discussing-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-generates-controversy-over-what-he-deems-good-twitter-policy-while-discussing-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Generates Controversy Over What He Deems \u2018Good\u2019 Twitter Policy While Discussing Censorship"},"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\">28<\/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-generates-controversy-over-what-he-deems-good-twitter-policy-while-discussing-censorship%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=1447089&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/EM2-2-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk sparked more controversy on Tuesday with a pair of tweets, one offering a \u201cgood\u201d metric for determining if a social media company\u2019s policies were effective and another asking who is behind \u201cshadowy\u201d censorship and deplatforming on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from Musk come as he launched a hostile, $43 billion bid last week to take Twitter private in order to unlock the platform\u2019s potential as a place to advance free speech. Musk has encountered various roadblocks, with key investors balking at the price of his offer and Twitter\u2019s board adopting a poison pill to stop his takeover attempt altogether. The entrepreneur and world\u2019s richest man is reportedly now exploring recruiting other investors to join his effort.<\/p>\n<p>Musk first replied to a tweet from tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, who wrote: \u201cI predict essentially identical censorship\/deplatforming policies across all layers of the legacy Internet stack. Client-side &#038; server-side ISPs, cloud platforms, CDNs, payment networks, client OSs, browsers, email clients. With only rare exceptions. The pressure is intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtremely concerning,\u201d Musk responded. \u201cWho is pushing this censorship\/deplatforming? Very shadowy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Extremely concerning. Who is pushing this censorship\/deplatforming? Very shadowy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1516470730136952833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Less than an hour later, Musk said that a social media company\u2019s policies would be \u201cgood\u201d if the policies equally made extremes on both sides \u201cunhappy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA social media platform\u2019s policies are good if the most extreme 10% on left and right are equally unhappy,\u201d Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>That tweet triggered both praise and criticism.\u00a0Notable responses included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Will Oremus<\/strong>, The Washington Post: \u201cOld enough to remember when he was a \u2018free speech absolutist.\u2019 Thoughts and prayers to the folks trying to parse his tweets for any kind of ideological consistency or logical coherence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dana Loesch<\/strong>, radio host: \u201cThey\u2019re good when they follow the principle that bad speech is cured by good speech. This, of course, requires free, diverse speech.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah Frier<\/strong>, Bloomberg: \u201cThis take is quite Zuckerbergian.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Searcy<\/strong>, actor: \u201cWrong. A social media platform should not be in the business of deciding who gets to be happy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Schwartz<\/strong>, CTO at Ripple: \u201cThis is an incredibly bad policy that works absurdly poorly. It rewards unreasonable people and punishes reasonable people. And if there\u2019s one lesson to learn from economics, it\u2019s that people respond to incentives. Imagine if one side is entirely radical and one side is entirely moderate people. For the side with all radicals, only the 10% most radical of their positions will be prohibited. For the side with all moderates, not even all their moderate positions are allowed! This is about the worst policy imaginable. Every moderate increases the risk that moderate positions on their side get prohibited and every radical expands what their side may say. You reward the side that has the most people with the most extreme views and you punish the side with the most people with extreme views. Every extremist grants their side more ability to offend and annoy the other side. Every moderate is one less opportunity to push the moderation policy in your side\u2019s favor. Want to call everyone the n-word? Start convincing people that it\u2019s okay and move them in that direction to get it allowed. It really looks like Musk has literally never spoken to anyone who has tangled with social media moderation problems at all and is just listing off the top of his head all the policies that sounds good to someone who does not understand the problem at all.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nilay Patel<\/strong>, The Verge: \u201cThis man would not last a day moderating a medium-size neighborhood parents\u2019 Facebook group.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dave Rubin<\/strong>, YouTuber: \u201cThe problem is that the Right generally wants the Left to be on platforms so they can expose the lunacy. The Left generally wants people banned, fired and erased.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ian Miles Cheong<\/strong>, writer: \u201cWhile true on the face of it, the problem is that the mainstream left pretends the extreme left doesn\u2019t exist and that anyone to the right of Stalin is \u2018extreme right.&#8217;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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