Musk vouches to 'fight for max freedom of speech under law' on X
Elon Musk on Sunday vouched that his social media company X, formerly Twitter, will fight for maximum freedom of speech under the law.
Musk said that while his company follows the aforesaid policy, anyone working at X who does not comply with the principle can join «other social media companies who sell their soul for a buck», he wrote in a post on X.
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The article also claims that this is in contrast to other countries such as Turkey and India, where X continues to legally contest censorship demands.
«At the risk of stating the obvious, I don't know what's going on with every part of this platform all the time, but our policy worldwide is to fight for maximum freedom of speech under the law,» Musk wrote in a post on X on Sunday.
«Anyone working for X Corp who does not operate according to this principle will be invited to further their career at any one of the other social media companies who sell their soul for a buck.»
Recently, the Musk-owned X also filed a lawsuit alleging that a new California law requiring social media platforms to declare certain moderation practices is «unconstitutional» and a clear violation of the company's right to free speech.
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