Sarah McLaughlinSince his takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has maintained that by “free speech” he “simply mean[s] that which matches the law." India's latest censorship campaign shows why that's very wrong, both as an understanding of free speech and as a way to run a global platform. https://www.thefire.org/news/censorship-india-exposes-gap-between-free-speech-and-law
Also, perceiving free speech as something to do with majority views is wrong at its core. The whole point of free speech is to ensure that minority viewpoints aren't crushed by the majority that wishes to see them silenced. Even if a censorship law did reflect the will of a majority of people, that does not make it pro-free speech somehow.
Days later, Twitter is still blocking links to the BBC documentary about Modi and Musk has yet to say anything about the censorship other than that he didn't know about it. That was 6 days ago. https://kenklippenstein.substack.com/p/elon-musk-continues-to-block-access
Brian Dear@sarahemclaugh One of many consequences a company faces with an extremely part-time CEO/owner whose attention is almost always elsewhere, and doesn’t care.