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What if freedom of discourse was more important than spaceships or electric cars or solar panels? I think it is. My guess is Elon does too.

• AlexandrB 4y ago
  Elon has completely failed to communicate what he means by "freedom of discourse". Judged by his actions so far it seems like it means "mostly the same as Twitter's existing policies, but you can't impersonate people and you especially can't impersonate Elon". Which seems like it's less freedom than before(?) It honestly seems like he hasn't thought about the problem deeply enough to have a coherent vision here. We'll see, I guess.
  • tdehnel 4y ago
    I’m glad he’s giving it a shot. No idea if it will work, but I am quite sure that progress as a species is dependent on a culture of open conjecture and criticism. Old Twitter was trending the other way imo, esp when it came to working with the government to decide what was true or not.
    • api 4y ago
      The problem is that social media as presently designed faces a choice between being an absolute cess pit of trolls and hate or being sometimes over-moderated. There is no way to do moderation right that will not get you accused of being biased or operating in bad faith by a large faction of people. If Elon can solve that he truly is a genius. So far no Internet forum has managed to achieve anything but that trade-off.