WHAT IS ELON MUSK DEFINITION OF FREE SPEECH ON TWITTER ?

(The Quiver) : Elon Musk ,the richest man of the world now owns the most influential social networking website which is Twitter.  After taking over twitter the Billionaire tech entrepreneur explained on Tuesday on what he meant by “free speech “. According to Musk the microblogging platform does not promote free speech.

Using his twitter account he explained why free speech is necessary for Twitter 

“By ‘free speech’, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people,” Musk tweeted.

This tweet was in reply to his previous tweet that said, “The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.” Basically, Musk criticised people who were criticising his move. Among these critics were human rights groups as well, who said that allowing free speech without any guidelines would lead to an explosion of hate speech content on the platform. Because free speech means no censorship in its true essence. Some of the people who were in favour also needed some kind of reassurance from Musk because Twitter has had a terrible hate speech problem and free speech, if implemented in its truest form, would just aggravate that.

But his words and intent could still not convince some people. So, for them, Musk has come up with a clarification on what he means by the word “free speech.”