Elon Musk's Twitter: A $44 Billion Town Square?
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week, Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute discusses Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, whether or not Twitter is a true “town square,” and what it means for the Left's control over big tech.
Show Notes:
Joel Thayer's articles that inspired the episode:
Elon Musk is Correct—Big Tech Platforms Are Digital Public Squares
If Big Tech Can Take Down Parler, It Can Handle Elon Musk
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| 0:00.0 | Man, now that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, I wonder if more people will like and share our |
| 0:07.4 | podcast. John Pop, do you think that's possible? |
| 0:09.8 | For sure. |
| 0:10.9 | Well, we can only hope it's for sure. |
| 0:14.6 | Folks, rate us five stars. |
| 0:16.1 | Leave us a comment. |
| 0:17.4 | And John Pop, what's the most important thing they can do? |
| 0:21.3 | Share. That's right. Thank thing they can do? Share. |
| 0:21.9 | That's right. |
| 0:22.5 | Thank you, Johnny. |
| 0:24.2 | Go ahead. |
| 0:24.8 | Do it now. |
| 0:25.8 | And thank you as always. |
| 0:47.0 | Thank you. From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:58.7 | Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square. |
| 1:07.8 | So it's just really important that people have the both the reality and the perception that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. |
| 1:13.4 | It's important to the function of democracy. |
| 1:16.7 | It's important to the function of the United States as a free country and on many other countries |
| 1:23.3 | and to help actually to help freedom in the world. |
| 1:30.3 | That's Elon Musk at a recent TED talk, |
| 1:33.2 | explaining why buying Twitter would be a step toward more free speech |
| 1:37.2 | as he strives to treat it as a town square of free ideas. |
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