{"id":12809,"date":"2022-04-21T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2022-04-22T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:34:53","slug":"755-elon-musks-private-strategy-for-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12809","title":{"rendered":"755 &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8216;private&#8217; strategy for free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/755-ElonMusk-Twitter-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12810\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20220421-justRIGHT-755-ElonMusksPrivateStrategyForFreeSpeech.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\nWidespread speculation about the consequences of <strong>Elon Musk\u2019s recent offer to buy Twitter<\/strong> has produced some interesting narratives of hope, doubts, skepticism, and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Motivations aside, Musk\u2019s actions have clearly upset members of the \u2018fake news\u2019 media, while those on the side of \u2018truth and free speech\u2019 are cheering him on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter\u2019s reputation as a censor of viewpoints that do not support \u2018official\u2019 narratives on everything from climate change to Ukraine has been well earned.<\/strong>  Even the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was banned from the social media site. <\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, <strong>Twitter claimed its right to censor and prohibit access under the premise that it is a private company<\/strong> (though publicly traded), while <strong>Musk now suggests that his purchase and private ownership of Twitter is the means to protect free speech<\/strong> on the site.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, efforts to control the public narrative by governments and politicians continue to go well beyond mere censorship.  For example, <strong>Canada\u2019s government is now in the process of forcing Facebook and Google to subsidize selected Canadian news outlets.<\/strong>  So the battle to protect freedom of speech is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>As a strategy for protecting free speech, it will remain to be seen whether Twitter\u2019s possible change of status under Elon Musk proves to be Just Right, or whether it is but one small step in the Right direction.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/755-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/755-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread speculation about the consequences of Elon Musk\u2019s recent offer to buy Twitter has produced some interesting narratives of hope, doubts, skepticism, and celebration. Motivations aside, Musk\u2019s actions have clearly upset members of the \u2018fake news\u2019 media, while those on the side of \u2018truth and free speech\u2019 are cheering him on. Twitter\u2019s reputation as a <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/12809' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,59,84,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-free-speech","category-journalism","category-latest","category-politics","issues-free-speech","issues-twitter","personalities-elon-musk","category-12-id","category-59-id","category-84-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12818,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions\/12818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}