Feathers Are Flying At Twitter
It’s a boardroom blitz.
“This is not a way to make money,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday of his recent, highly-publicized bid to buy Twitter. “My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.”
Musk’s very public battle with progressives and Twitter’s current brass over censorship on the platform has been waxing hot since the moment he first began openly criticizing the platform for censoring speech and being opaque about the process.
Those who have defended Twitter’s right to censor with cries of, “Twitter is private company and can do whatever it wants,” have been singing a different tune this week with the news that Musk wants to buy the social media giant.
“One of the things that I believe Twitter should do is open source the algorithm and make any changes to people’s tweets, or if they emphasized or de-emphasized, that action should be made apparent so anyone can see that an action has been taken so there’s no sort of behind-the-scenes manipulation, either algorithmically or manually,” Elon Musk said during a Thursday TED conference.
While Musk explicitly decried open calls for violence, he maintained, “healthy free speech is when someone says something you don’t like”.