“Today, in response to a court case and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we took action to restrict access to some content in Turkey,” Twitter said over the weekend. The main point was that the government of incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wanted to ensure that its competitors’ communication options were curtailed in the context of the current elections.
When Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias clarified this, there was an immediate response from Musk himself. “Are your brains out, Yglesias? You have a choice of choking Twitter completely or restricting access to some tweets. Which do you want from it?” the multi-billionaire said.
Lots of headwind
This drew a variety of reactions. Even users who are more friendly to Musk’s course made it clear that you can’t always uphold freedom of speech if you end up defending it only when it costs nothing. Especially since Twitter has been repeatedly blocked by the Erdoğan government, making it so clear that Musks even falls behind the previous Twitter management when it comes to money.
A word reported Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who has had a wide range of experiences with state repression since the online encyclopedia was founded. “What Wikipedia did: We stood up for our principles and fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. That’s what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle and not as a slogan,” he explained .
- Elon Musk takes over Twitter and promises free speech
- Twitter caves in and restricts access to content in Turkey
- Musk responds to criticism and defends confinement
- Critics make it clear that freedom of speech cannot be upheld all the time
- Jimmy Wales explains how to stand up for principles
- Musk falls behind previous Twitter management when it comes to money
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