Episode 09: The 44 Billion Dollar Edit Button

Topics:

• Twitter, Elon Musk, and “free speech”
  • Musk buying Twitter for $44b
  • Musk promised changes:
    • Edit button
    • Open-sourced algorithm
    • Shut down bots/verify all humans
  • Is twitter the “de facto town square”?
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly of free speech
    • When is speech _too_ free
    • Should speech be 100% free
    • Tuning what you see (avoiding the town square)
  • Government regulated
  • US vs. the rest of the world
    • Non-US politicians invoking the 1st amendment
  • Twitter as a private vs publicly-traded company

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