Glenn Greenwald: Elon Musk Wants to Roll Back Heavy-Handed Censorship Twitter Relies on for Getting Rid of Rivals

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GREENWALD: "This is why think it’s important, this episode is. He is proposing a lot of changes, almost all of which are uncontroversial, things like getting rid of bots, making the verification process easier, providing an 'edit' button. The one proposal that he is so controversial and has generated all of this upset and outrage among the media class is he wants to make free speech values more predominant to erode and roll back what has become a very aggressive censorship regime where the range of use that you’re permitted to express is constantly contracting. And it’s bizarre to me, Howie, that journalist, who traditionally have prided ourselves on being the defenders, the front-line defenders of free speech and press freedom, now, at least in many sectors, seem to be the leading crusaders in favor of more censorship, of silencing dissident voices, of silencing and de-platforming their competitors. And clearly the horror about Elon Musk taking over Twitter, a platform most important to media links, as we just said, it’s all about the fact that they rely on the heavy censorship hand for managing the discourse and for getting rid of rivals."