Elon Musk, Twitter’s next owner, provides his definition of “free speech”

Arstechnica really has a peculiar demographic and I heavily disagree with the general sentiment. Former or current content moderators maybe? Would explain the mental exhaustion.

I guess people will have to register under their real name with Twitter in the future. I doubt it will improve that platform and people should not underestimated the leverage some countries have on Musk. He build factories in a number of them and I guess if they don't like the compliance of Twitter, they will retaliate here.

He already said that the right will be unhappy too and I guess it is regarding Twitter very closely cooperating with state authorities and Musk will provide them access to user data. I don't have a twitter account but I think the influence from Twitter is toxic and negative on politics so you have some engagement if you want or not. But anonymous platforms are still the preferable for real discussions.

Good news, the barrier between government <-> corporations <-> ONGs is growing thinner and thinner, with the same people moving between those and working in the same agenda. Many political decisions that shape the countries have been delegated to big corporations so that nobody has to take political heat for those decisions. It's better if politicians have to actually change the law and deal with the responsibility if they want to change the country.