Twitter’s most recognisable global power user matters desperately to a business Elon Musk has been bungling since the moment he took it over.
came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidised projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘Drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it…” —Elon Musk took to Twitter on Sunday night, posting a cartoon of a woman eyeing a bottle of prescription drugs.
Trump had been inciting violence for years before that — at his rallies, in his speeches and on social media — and the 6 January insurrection made the consequences of his flame-throwing tangible. Twitter took all of that into account as it examined Trump’s courtship of the “American Patriots” who stormed the Capitol.Twitter ultimately concluded that Trump’s boycott of the inauguration demonstrated little interest in a peaceful transfer of power.
Trump is struggling, too. His recent political fortunes, including watching myriad candidates he endorsed take a beating in the midterms, make a return to Twitter attractive and, despite his declarations to do otherwise, probably inevitable. The timing of the reinstatement is perfect — it certainly wasn’t coincidental — and it means two world-class juvenile delinquents will coexist in the same digital frat house.
Free speech isn’t an absolute right in the US, and the first amendment of the constitution guards against the government infringing on speech; private enterprises can do as much infringing as they see fit. The law protects vigorous reporting and intense scrutiny of public figures while limiting, for example, protection for certain obscenities and for language that incites violence or encourages overthrowing the government.
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