World’s richest individual and the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, Elon Musk took on the Big Tech firms over their uncommon censorship acts by naming that many individuals will be discontent with “West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech”.
“Many individuals will be too discontent with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech”, Musk tweeted while responding to a satirical article by Babylonbee.
In another tweet, Musk answered, “This is an important distinction” when a user said that Big Tech needs to make a distinction between banning hate speech and banning speech it hates.
Musk has in the past taken on Big Tech firms like Facebook over the latter’s AI plans. He as of late likewise empowered the selection of messaging application Signal, following Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s changes in its privacy settings.
These remarks by Musk come when Big Tech has been carrying out unprecedented censorship of conservative voices. This has included indefinitely banning Trump from Twitter, Facebook, and forcing Parler to go offline.