I don't understand the blind spot which allows those very conversant with the necessary conditions of intellectual freedom to produce pieces like this, where Musk (accurately described as being under various forms of attack from some quarters) is INACCURATELY presented as a free speech warrior in sentences such as this:
"In times of censorship, he bought and now protects a free-speech platform, the only one remaining with any real reach into the public mind. Countless millions of people are deeply grateful, even if the platform is a long way from profitability."
X is NOT a free speech platform. It's guiding policies as explicitly stated by Musk and Yaccarino are 1. "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach", a ridiculous koan which yields anything BUT intellectual freedom as it completely smothers "disliked" perspectives; and 2. A reservation of the right to NON-TRANSPARENTLY demonetize and deamplify accounts and posts which are subjectively determined to be in a category called "lawful but awful". 3. No transparency about who was/is being de-amplified.
I don't understand the blind spot which allows those very conversant with the necessary conditions of intellectual freedom to produce pieces like this, where Musk (accurately described as being under various forms of attack from some quarters) is INACCURATELY presented as a free speech warrior in sentences such as this:
"In times of censorship, he bought and now protects a free-speech platform, the only one remaining with any real reach into the public mind. Countless millions of people are deeply grateful, even if the platform is a long way from profitability."
X is NOT a free speech platform. It's guiding policies as explicitly stated by Musk and Yaccarino are 1. "freedom of speech, not freedom of reach", a ridiculous koan which yields anything BUT intellectual freedom as it completely smothers "disliked" perspectives; and 2. A reservation of the right to NON-TRANSPARENTLY demonetize and deamplify accounts and posts which are subjectively determined to be in a category called "lawful but awful". 3. No transparency about who was/is being de-amplified.
Musk being attacked, does not make X a free speech platform. Getting rid of those policies would make it a free speech platform. More on that: https://jenswanndowney.substack.com/p/we-are-being-trained-to-perceive