Liberals should not quit Elon Musk’s X, leading US lawmaker says
Politico“I think that everything he has said publicly is he believes in free and open speech, and we need to have more platforms. Now, I don’t think X should be the only platform,” Khanna told Anne McElvoy for POLITICO’s Power Play podcast. “Not only do I stay, I use it all the time … I don’t think that the answer for progressives is to disengage.” “Now we have the distortion of the public sphere with moneyed interests and with digital spaces that aren’t equal for everyone to participate. And what we ought to be focused on is how do we create more town hall-like places for conversation online.” On the subject of regulation, Khanna said he was not in favor of the U.S. adopting Australia-style measures to ban social media for people under 16 years of age. “We have a more robust tradition of free speech, and if someone’s 15 and wants to speak out about Palestinian rights or LGTBQ rights or Black Lives Matter and wants to be online, I don’t think we should just blanket-restrict that person’s speech.
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