Yoel Roth, the anti-Trump former Twitter employee who briefly served as the site’s top censor, has penned an article for the New York Times explaining how regulators and corporate interests can prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech on the platform.
explaining how a coalition of regulators and corporate interests can prevent Elon Musk from fully restoring free speech on the platform.
In the article, Roth, who briefly led Twitter’s notorious “Trust & Safety” department — responsible for the platform’s sitewide censorship policies — outlined the establishment’s playbook for restraining any platform that attempts to move towards free speech on its own.
Roth also noted the power of state regulators. In addition to referencing European regulators, who can explicitly demand platforms take down “hate speech” and other material they deem illegal, he also points to U.S. agencies like the FTC. Despite the First Amendment prohibiting government regulation of speech in America, the Biden administration has repeatedly leaned on social media companies to take down content.
Regulators have significant tools at their disposal to enforce their will on Twitter and on Mr. Musk. Penalties for noncompliance with Europe’s Digital Services Act could total as much as 6 percent of the company’s annual revenue. In the United States, the F.T.C. has shown an increasing willingness to exact significant fines for noncompliance with its orders (like a blockbuster
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