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Jemima Kelly: No Elon, your version of free speech cannot flourish online
Musk’s X continues to die a slow and tedious death. Maybe we should be grateful.
FT columnist writes that social media is not as billed – it is actually an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth.
By Jemima Kelly of the Financial Times
There has been much talk about the importance of free speech in recent weeks — and for understandable reasons: having the freedom to speak out without fear of punishment or censorship is tested in times of crisis. But in a world in which much of our discourse takes place online, can free speech still do the work it used to? What if, by seeing it as some kind of end in itself, its defenders actually miss what makes it so valuable?
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