Is Free Speech Right Wing?

By Keith Teare • Issue #306 • View online

Is Elon Musk a “right wing troll”? Or is he an example of real democratic thinking? How did it become “right wing” to favor free speech? Content from @ElonMusk @David Sacks @Vitalik Buterin and more

Contents

• The Battle for Twitter
• Venture Week
• All Change for Ethereum
• Web3 and the Crypto Universe
• Essay of the Week
• Startup of the Week
• Tweet of the Week

Editorial

There is almost no prior period in human history where the desire to allow free speech would be considered right-wing. Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter is widely believed to be driven by his desire to support open discussion in a “public square” like platform. Yet his opponents are almost entirely self-identifying as “left-wing”.

Of course, the fact that Twitter gave a permanent ban to Donald Trump, added to the likelihood of Musk rescinding that ban, which now means that anybody who wishes to see Trump’s ban continue (mainly the “left”) is an opponent of Musk. And so Musk must be “right-wing” — right?

Well, no.