Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have been asking for trouble. It has found them.
The tensions between free speech absolutism and the rules and laws that apply outside of social media have been exposed quite explicitly by the arrest of Telegram’s Pavel Durov in France a week ago and the shutting down of Elon Musk’s X in Brazil at the weekend.after Brazil’s Supreme Court gave it 24 hours to name a new legal representative in the country or face closure.
Musk’s confrontation in Brazil came a week after France arrested Telegram’s Durov over the claimed use of the encrypted platform by criminals, paedophiles, terrorists, money launderers and human traffickers and Telegram’s failure to moderate that content or co-operate with law enforcement agencies. Musk, who sees moderation as censorship and X as an unfettered public square vital to democratic societies, unsurprisingly rushed to Durov’s defence, tweeting “Liberté, Liberté, Liberté, calling for Durov’s release and saying he, Musk, might have to limit his travels to countries where free speech was constitutionally protected
X could either be banned from offering its services in the EU, where it has more than 45 million active monthly users, or fined up to 6 per cent of its global revenues. By allowing their platforms to host content that wouldn’t be tolerated outside of the digital environment Durov and Musk have invited a response from lawmakers and regulators.
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