The opposition to Musk buying Twitter is diverse, here are the opposition’s Top 10
Did nobody make the claim that ‘guy who claims he wants free speech will restrict speech instead’?
Not that I’d know whether that would be a reasonable worry. I guess that question could be settled with a prediction market, if the question could be sufficiently operationalized.
No, because that point is for the case where he does want free speech, just that there are other factors that might interfere with that. This point covers the case where he doesn’t actually want free speech (i.e. wants it for me but not thee).
Did nobody make the claim that ‘guy who claims he wants free speech will restrict speech instead’?
Not that I’d know whether that would be a reasonable worry. I guess that question could be settled with a prediction market, if the question could be sufficiently operationalized.
That is indeed a point critics are making—though usually it’s more about the hypocrisy. I’ve seen this brought up recently in particular: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk-blogger-tesla-motors-model-x
I interpreted the following as saying just that:
No, because that point is for the case where he does want free speech, just that there are other factors that might interfere with that. This point covers the case where he doesn’t actually want free speech (i.e. wants it for me but not thee).