Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP/FileSource: AFPThe limits of Elon Musk's self-professed "free speech absolutism" were laid bare, critics said, when he banned rapper Kanye West from Twitter over his latest anti-Semitic outburst on Thursday. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead." "The problem is that Elon Musk has a half-baked free speech philosophy," said Jacob Mchangama, author of "Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media". "So-called free speech absolutism is just a fantasy," said influential podcaster Sam Harris earlier this week on his "Making Sense" show. "You can't have free speech absolutism... but you should err on the side of free speech and there are ways that Musk could have done it.

Source: The Star December 02, 2022 12:10 UTC