Elon Musk: Freedom of Speech Not Reach

A clip from Elon Musk's interview with the new Twitter CEO, Linda Yaccarino, from April 18, 2023. In this clip they discuss Twitter's new "Freedom of Speech Not Freedom of Reach" policy.

Elon Musk: In order for civilization to advance, we've got to have freedom of speech. We've got to have a digital, yeah, so, thank you. It's a bigger deal than you think. It's the kind of thing that you don't know what you're missing until you don't have it. And in a lot of places, people don't have it. And, so it's important to bear in mind that the nature of free speech, the acid test for it is are people you don't like allowed to say things that you don't like? Otherwise, it's not free. It can't be just the things that you like, because eventually somebody's not going to like what you say, and they're going to shut you up. And that's, that's the essence of free speech. And that's why its the first amendment in this country. And if we lose that, I think we lose the bedrock of democracy.

Linda Yaccarino: So the bedrock of democracy, I would imagine, is important to everyone in this room. And you talk about the importance of freedom of speech. Yesterday, you posted a new policy that was titled Freedom of Speech Not Freedom of Reach. That caught my attention.

Elon Musk: Yes.

Linda Yaccarino: Tell us about your new policy.

Elon Musk: Right, so Freedom of Speech Not Freedom of Reach is important in that, you know, like if somebody has something hateful to say it doesn't mean you should give him a megaphone. They should still be able to say it, but it needs to be not then pushed on people. So, you can go like in Time Square, and you hear people say all kinds of crazy things. That's fine, but we don't broadcast that to Earth. So, if somebody wants to say something that's technically legal, but that is, you know, by most definitions hateful, they're not going to get, we're not going to promote that to people. We're not going to recommend hateful content to people. We'll put that behind a warning label saying this, this speech is probably something you don't want. So, now this is something we should be very careful that we roll out. And, and that it does not become what is intended to be good does not become bad. So, so we want to be delicate with the freedom of reach not speech, freedom of speech not reach. So we're taking it easy, but it's just, yeah, if if people are saying things that are they're making you sad or or encouraging negativity, then we're not going to amplify that. Which Twitter has done in the past.

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