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“There is no choice”: on Twitter, Elon Musk was forced to accept requests to censor content

Elon Musk has accepted numerous requests to remove content on Twitter from authoritarian governments. According to him, he never had any real choice but to force himself to do it.

More than four out of five applications were accepted. Since his takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk has been conciliatory towards requests to censor content. Last week, the Spanish daily The country indicated that 83% of the requests from authoritarian governments have been met.

A figure that the owner of the social network was criticized by an editorial writer for the economic newspaper Bloomberg, reports the US site The Verge. Matthew Yglesias was happy to recall the promise Elon Musk made by sharing the article in Spanish on Twitter with the simple mention: “I am an absolutist of freedom of expression.”

Reset Banned Accounts

The expression “freedom of expression absolutist” is often used by the businessman to justify his choices. It is also in the name of free speech that he restored the previously banned accounts on Twitter in November 2022.

A few days after Russia invaded Ukraine in early March 2022, it had already refused to block Russian news sites through its Starlink satellite internet access service. Here again the defense of freedom of expression had been invoked.

Author: pierre monnier
Source: BFM TV

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