{"id":314396,"date":"2022-04-27T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T03:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/?p=314396"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T06:32:55","slug":"elon-musk-free-speech-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/elon-musk-free-speech-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"After Twitter takeover, Elon Musk says people who fear free speech have cause for worry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk is all over in the news after his takeover deal with Twitter was confirmed. And soon after that, he shared that free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. After this, people started saying that this move can welcome people whose accounts were suspended here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this, Tesla&#8217;s CEO explained what he meant by free speech. He said that he simply means that things which match the law. He also said that he is against censorship that goes far beyond the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk further said that if people want less free speech then will ask the government to pass laws to that effect. He concluded that therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/elon-musk-criticizing-tweets-twitter\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/elon-musk-criticizing-tweets-twitter\/\">Elon Musk buys Twitter: From criticizing to acquiring a microblogging platform, here\u2019s what all happened in a month on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tesla CEO even said that people who fear free speech are getting extreme antibody reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all<\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519020176884305920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Musk finalised the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion. and has stuck to his offer of $54.20 per share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Musk is the largest share owner of Twitter. He owns around a 9.1 per cent stake in Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, in a statement, Musk said that he wants to make Twitter better than ever by authenticating all humans. After this, some people started raising questions and said if this route going to turn haywire for people or for him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Elon Musk&#8217;s news went viral Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market shared a tweet that Elon Musk knows it well that he will have to abide by the EU rules.. In the tweet, he wrote be it cars or social media, any company operating in Europe needs to comply with their rules, regardless of their shareholding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/jignesh-mevani-assault-case\/\">Gujarat\u2019s Independent MLA Jignesh Mevani has been sent to 5-day police custody by a court in Assam\u2019s Barpeta district in an assault case where he has been accused of assault and molestation by a woman police constable in Assam.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump-kangana-ranaut-account\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.apnlive.com\/elon-musk-twitter-donald-trump-kangana-ranaut-account\/\">Elon Musk buys Twitter: Will former US President Donald Trump and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut\u2019s account be restored after Musk hails free speech?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has now explained what he meant by free speech and has said that he is also against censorship that goes beyond the law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":307928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Elon Musk explains his tweet, says those who fear free speech are getting antibody reaction\n#ElonMusk #Twittersold","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,98870,125714],"tags":[6881,129596,129538,3145,650],"yst_prominent_words":[21640,21779,89256,89252,26370,8108,24875,89242,24903,4051,58775,21675,6190,4590],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/04\/10143632\/1211442310.jpg.0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=314396"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=314396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->