While American society, especially the upper class of business, is not optimistic about this acquisition, just as Musk expected when he pleaded that he would promote "the maximum level of freedom of speech", in the short time after Twitter's surname was "Ma", a large number of su

After many twists and turns, on October 27 this year, the rich and willful Elon Musk finally spent tens of billions of dollars to win twitter.

In the American society, especially the upper class of business, the acquisition is not optimistic, just as Musk expected when he said he wanted to promote "the maximum level of freedom of speech", in the short time after Twitter's surname is "Ma", a large number of super "bad information" emerged on this international information platform featuring niche information releases, including hateful speech, violent content, etc.

EU responded very quickly and strongly to this, which shows the seriousness of the situation. On November 30, EU Internal Market Commissioner Breton directly warned Musk through a video that may be fined for posting content such as terrorism, child abuse and commercial fraud, and violated relevant EU bills. According to Global Network , this type of fine can reach 6% of Twitter's global revenue. At the same time, Twitter is more likely to be banned in the EU if it violates relevant provisions of the bill.

● Is Lao Ma really crazy enough to be out of bounds

Obviously, Musk wants to do something that looks very good, and he also wants to fight head-on, but he also comes with him.

This is a loss-making deal. Lao Ma spent 44 billion US dollars to acquire such an information company with a net worth of less than US$20 billion. Although some domestic commentators say that Lao Ma’s purpose is to achieve personal information manipulation and its corporate marketing by leading Twitter. This statement may make some sense, but it is a bit petty, and things seem to be far from being the case. If Lao Ma is not stupid, as the richest man in the world and the superman in technology industry who is so popular, he has as many other means as possible. Why not only make money at a loss, but also suffer various doubts that have nothing to do with business?

Musk is a bit similar to Soros. He has crazy ambitions and has some transcendent cognitions in his thoughts. Soros often studies philosophy while doing futures . His lifelong obsession is to be a philosopher, and Lao Ma also has his "first principle".

So, he had previously expressed deep dissatisfaction with Twitter's speech restrictions and claimed that the acquisition was to "remain a pure land for human freedom of speech" and "for the future of mankind." This does not necessarily mean to deceive the society or flatter the public. He should really have such a concept, or to a considerable extent, such a strategic direction.

However, there is indeed no absolute freedom of speech in the world. It always requires boundaries and limitations (of course, different restrictions have very different natures. In addition to the size of the scale, the essential difference lies in whether there are basically the same freedom between the upper and lower parts). It should be said that in the society where Lao Ma is located, this aspect is already very relaxed.

So why did Lao Ma be so hard and try to go up again?

From a personal perspective, we can say that Musk is arrogant, but if we look at the origin of Western social thought, then Lao Ma’s above concept is not without social and historical foundations, and is purely groundless.

● Lao Ma still has a basis for doing things

Since the turbulent human rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Western social and cultural have always tended to pursue "extreme" in personal freedom. Its main ideological basis is the "absolute natural rights" of human beings advocated by some previous Western thinkers (drawing back to the Enlightenment era and Ancient Greek ). It should be said that such pursuits gradually achieve results or results in reality, including S liberation, racial reconciliation, Western tolerance for same-sex marriage and public opinion expression in recent years, are all related to this. In any case, these changes are human progress.

Looking at Musk's various remarks, he is undoubtedly a person who has aspirations, so as a giant golden power crocodile, he has been constantly catching up with the practices of platforms such as Twitter. Such pursuits are significantly amplified and implemented in actions because of their "superman" personality and wealth. No matter what, those who embrace idealism are still worthy of appreciation. If Lao Ma’s concept can be realized as much as possible and at a very small cost, it will still be a blessing for the world.

The problem is that it's not that simple.Freedom of speech is indeed a priceless treasure of human life, and it is also a double-edged sword that is difficult to grasp. To this day, human nature still exists. Many people have not evolved to have perfect self-discipline in speech expression and perfect rational judgment in information acceptance. In this way, no matter how beautiful the freedom is, it is very easy to go astray.

If there is no necessary constraint, such as racial hatred or terrorism claims on information platforms, it is not difficult to spill out from the platform to society like the "externality" mentioned in economics, resulting in serious consequences, that is, lightning strikes.

Because of this, it is said that Lao Ma has already shown signs of turning back. Recently, he said he would check the information on Twitter. I hope that under the premise of balance, his ideal can still be advanced a few steps. If he can do it, he will be happy, and the public will be more happy.