Yet she said she would greatly favour a free speech advocate acquiring power over one of the social media companies. Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. "That's certainly a concern, because we just don't know what Elon Musk might do as far as free speech is concerned," he said. For example, Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, once said that Twitter belongs "to the free speech wing of the free speech party." "Elon Musk internally, within his own world, is not a huge champion of unfettered free speech," Nover said.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2022 13:01 UTC