Sacks: Musk's free speech mission at Twitter is vital for humanity
David Sacks · E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more · Dec 16, 2022 · at 8:11
David Sachs defends Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter, arguing the broad mission of restoring open speech outweighs individual content moderation disputes.
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“If you define what he's doing in the larger sense as restoring free speech to the most important town square social network, hopefully thereby inspiring other tech companies to move in the direction of opening things up, then I actually think it's a pretty good use of his time. So look, I think we can quibble about this or that decision that he makes or this or that tweet, but I think the overall thrust of what he's doing Is very important for the country and for humanity.”
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