Elon Musk: Let Ideas Compete—Censorship Has No Place in a Free Society

Elon Musk: We should let ideas compete, not suppress them.

“I think we should embrace a diversity of views, and we should have reasonable arguments, and we should have debates. The essence of free speech is that ideas survive when they're competing ideas in the marketplace of ideas.

And if somebody says something that's incorrect, then that can be corrected. That's what happens on the 𝕏 platform. People will say something, then others will add context to it, or they will correct it, or there will be a community note.

This applies equally to the left and right. There's no thumb on the scale like there used to be. And there's no voice on the left that's been silenced, unlike in the past, where many voices on the right were silenced.

But they just don't seem to like the idea that people on the right can say what they want to say within the bounds of the law, which is startling.”

Pittsburgh, October 20, 2024