Elon Musk Drops a Knowledge Bomb On the Information Minefield | RealClearMarkets
Musk s attempt to reform Twitter from the inside is heroic but will be fought ferociously. The anti-free speech forces recent capture of the information landscape is seductive. They will not give up this newfound power easily. The new battles are not about policy but legitimacy. Who can speak? Who can participate? What information is real? If you can disqualify opponents and inconvenient ideas, you can advance unpopular, untrue, and self-serving agendas.
Of course, we need curators, editors, aggregators, and critics. Perhaps now more than ever. Overwhelming floods of information require wisdom to navigate. The problem with the new regime is that the editing comes way too high in the stack. Too early. Top-down editing isn t discretion. It s censorship. It is presumptuous consensus and premature falsification. It is pre-information.