I’ve been discussing this with a co-worker for months now. My opinion is in line with yours.
Basically what he says is that X became far right, usually I respond by saying that probably a lot more people than we expected a year or two ago are actually conservatives, or have far right opinions on certain subjects, and we’re seeing that back in the shift in politics now.
Than ongoing to the next ‘problem’, what do you do with it. He hinted to moderating things and my opinion is that moderating opinions is just a nice word for censorship, especially if those opinions aren’t breaking any laws. It’s an argument he struggles to counter. And honestly analysing this, would you really want to give X employees the power to control narratives just because it isn’t in line with what the government thinks.
The only thing I struggle with is what do we do with disinformation and who has the monopoly on the truth in that case. I think that it’s for the police or services in the countries where it happens to fight that, but it’s a difficult subject. Also because it isn’t always very nuanced and simple things like memes can be very powerful.
I do agree with Elon Musk that as long as opinions aren’t breaking the law, free speech applies. But the reality is that it’s a quite complex discussion.
Basically what he says is that X became far right, usually I respond by saying that probably a lot more people than we expected a year or two ago are actually conservatives, or have far right opinions on certain subjects, and we’re seeing that back in the shift in politics now.
Than ongoing to the next ‘problem’, what do you do with it. He hinted to moderating things and my opinion is that moderating opinions is just a nice word for censorship, especially if those opinions aren’t breaking any laws. It’s an argument he struggles to counter. And honestly analysing this, would you really want to give X employees the power to control narratives just because it isn’t in line with what the government thinks.
The only thing I struggle with is what do we do with disinformation and who has the monopoly on the truth in that case. I think that it’s for the police or services in the countries where it happens to fight that, but it’s a difficult subject. Also because it isn’t always very nuanced and simple things like memes can be very powerful.
I do agree with Elon Musk that as long as opinions aren’t breaking the law, free speech applies. But the reality is that it’s a quite complex discussion.
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