It’s probably not a good idea for important platforms to be in the business of frequently banning users for life.
and impose upon it his version of free speech, speculation swirled about whether he would let Donald Trump, the ultimate Twitter scofflaw, return to the platform. Well, the suspense is over. On Tuesday, Musk confirmed what most people suspected, announcing at aconference that he would “reverse the permanent ban” of the former president’s account. Trump, you will recall, got
If anything, deleting tweets that are “wrong and bad” suggests a broader, more easily abused standard of content moderation than Twitter currently deploys. The most likely explanation for Musk’s conflicting statements is that he’s simply making this up as he goes and has not given any serious thought to how content rules should work on the social platform that he’s trying to spend $44 billion to buy. And yet, buried in Musk’s free-speech word salad is a crouton of wisdom worth chewing on.
“I think permanent bans can be really harmful,” says Evelyn Douek, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School who studies content moderation. “And in some ways, they’re going to be more harmful for the average user than for a really powerful politician who is always going to be able to get their message out.”that he won’t return to Twitter even if reinstated, and will instead use his own Twitter-clone platform, Truth Social. OK, sure.
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