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Thursday morning, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter<\/a> to save free speech. <\/p>\n

\u201cI invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,\u201d wrote the Tesla and SpaceX billionaire \u2014 who recently acquired a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter \u2014 in a filing. \u201cHowever, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear<\/a> how this gambit will play out, but there\u2019s also a more fundamental question: what does Elon Musk think free speech is, and who\u2019s threatening it? Free expression is a cornerstone of an open society, and with governments across the world eyeing crackdowns on internet platforms, there\u2019s a complicated interplay between different visions of what should be allowed online. But despite his sweeping declaration, Musk\u2019s eye seems almost entirely focused on the far smaller question of Twitter\u2019s own internal rules.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Twitter\u2019s former CEO Dick Costolo asserted<\/a> that Twitter belonged to \u201cthe free speech wing of the free speech party,\u201d a phrase that\u2019s been invoked by critics of the platform\u2019s moderation calls ever since. In the context of that era, free speech controversies mostly involved Twitter\u2019s relationship with governments. The platform was earning plaudits for letting activists organize under the threat of political repression in Egypt and other countries<\/a>. Costolo boasted about his fight with the US government<\/a> over account data related to WikiLeaks, which was under investigation after leaking diplomatic cables.<\/p>\n

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