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The use of the word "censor" is a very common misdirect by those who want to control narratives to dismiss any attempts to regulate their control. From Musk's perspective, "free speech" is speech he has exclusive censorship rights over, as an individual, rather than any democratic body. In reality speech can only ever be as free as platform owners' intend it to be (be that platform digital, trad private media, or even state broadcast) - Musk takes issue with EU citizens having a say in his level of control over such speech.

I'd recommmend interrogating anyone's use of the word "censor" to see what their own record of "censorship" is - everything is mediated/controlled/"censored" in some way by someone (Google filter bubble, etc.) - the only question is the democratisation of access to such controls.

Community Notes may be more efficient than "bureaucrats" but I can't see any evidence that it's more accurate - it will almost certainly be more short-lived.



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