The commitment to free speech has fallen apart. He said that the platform should allow all legal speech when he launched his takeover bid. His stance changed this month when he blocked a swastika from rapper Ye. He increased his efforts this week and suspended more than 25 accounts that posted flight data for his private jet. Several journalists who had reported on the purge were kicked off of the social network as well.
Setting rules is not the only way that moderation is guided by. Musk has argued that he protects people from being doxed, but this week he decided to censor accounts because they offended him.
The new approach will have a long-term impact on the micro-messaging service. Despite its small size, journalists have helped keep the platform relevant by providing free content when news breaks and rumors swirl.
Musk made a move against high-profile journalists on the social networking site.
John Davisson is the director of litigation and senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit that focuses on privacy and free expression. It is being carried out in a way that is self centered. New policies on live location sharing and privacy seem to be designed to help Musk, not to protect users.
The new policies announced this week by Musk will be enforced in a way that covers all users, but Davisson doesn't think that's possible.
Jack Sweeney, a college student, runs an account called ElonJet that uses public flight- tracking data to provide a location of the private jet of entrepreneurs. Musk said in November that he would allow the account to stay online after he took control of the company. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN have suspended reporters. Links to Mastodon have been blocked by the social networking site.
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