Elon Musk Says He’d Rather Lose Money To Maintain Free Speech Than To Bend To Censorship – ‘The Right Moral Decision’
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(Page Six) Elon Musk said he would prefer X to lose advertising dollars and maintain freedom of speech than have the platform be censored.
“There were some advertisers who were insisting on censorship, and at the end of the day … if I have to make the choice censorship and money or free speech and losing money we’re going to pick the second,” Musk told WPP CEO Mark Read during his Cannes Lions conversation Wednesday morning.
“We’re going to support free speech broadly then agree to be censored for money, which is, I think, the right moral decision.”
“We’re going to support free speech broadly then agree to be censored for money, which is, I think, the right moral decision,” he said during a Cannes Lions talk Wednesday. WireImage
The Tesla founder spoke with WPP Ceo Mark Read. Ella Pellegrini for NY PostThe SpaceX founder made the admission after Read asked Musk, 52, why he told advertisers to “go f—k ourselves.” Although Musk somewhat backtracked on his comment, insisting he wasn’t directing it at “advertisers as whole,” he doubled down on disagreeing with brands who believe “there can be no content that they disagree with on the platform.”“There’s an important distinction here that we don’t want to take money to censor broadly on the platform,” the Tesla founder explained. “I think that would be wrong.”
Musk clarified that he didn’t believe free speech meant people could say “illegal things” and reiterated the importance of “free speech within the bounds of the law.”
