Elon Musk leaves us again with a very juicy headline derived from his purchase of Twitter and then from one of the greatest acts of censorship committed on the social networkas well as the expulsion and veto he imposed on former United States President Donald Trump.

This was admitted by the richest man in the world during his participation in the “Future of the Car”, organized by the Financial Times and which discussed many things about the topic of the event, but in which Musk could not help but scratch some “controversial” statement and take advantage of the last round of questions.

Musk, who has shared some of his ideas to improve Twitter since the purchase agreement to move the social network to new and ambitious horizons, remains in line with the reasons he used to justify the acquisition, and his defense is freedom of expression one of those most blisters among certain groups.

So the question – repeated and the result of speculation since it became known that Musk will be the new owner of Twitter – if he would allow Trump to return to the platformthe answer was quite straightforward: the decision would reverse it, yes, but conditionally, because, as noted above, regulators have not yet approved the operation, so Twitter is not yet theirs.

«I talked to Jack Dorsey [fundador de Twitter] and we share the view that permanent bans should be extremely rare and we would reserve them for accounts that are robots, spam or fraud where there is no legitimacy to be held accountable.Musk answers. «I think it was wrong to ban it [el acceso] Donald Trump«Add.

Donald Trump celebrates, but at Truth Social

«I think it was a mistake because it alienated much of the country and in the end it did not mean that Donald Trump had no vote that will now be on Truth Social, as did many of the right-wing in the United States. States and I think it could end more frankly than having a single forum where everyone could discuss“Explain.”

«So I think the answer is this would lift the permanent banAlthough it’s nothing that will happen because I don’t own Twitter yet. But my view, and to be clear, Jack Dorsey shares this view is that we should not have permanent bans«. Add.

And it gets to the real core of the debate:This does not mean that everyone can say what they want. If someone says something that is illegal […] then maybe there should be some temporary ban or that particular tweet should be “invisible” or very limited in scope, but I think permanent measures only undermine trust in Twitter as a “square” where everyone can express their opinion«.

And it ends: «I think it was a morally wrong and extremely stupid decision. »

The moderator will then ask him if he really believes that, «even after [Trump] provoked the crowd that went to the capital“…

To which Musk responds with the same argument that he has argued all along:I think that if there are tweets that are not correct, they should be removed or made invisible, and that a temporary suspension is appropriate, but not a permanent one.He insists. the conversation continues and reiterates respect for freedom of speech, with the limit set by law, not a platform that should give a voice to everyone.

You can watch an excerpt of the interview in the video below.

However, Musk also points out that Trump expressed his intention to remain at Truth Social, a Twitter clone derived from Mastodon and created for his pleasure, while a few days ago it was known that his lawsuit against Twitter had been dismissed.

And this is how we all lose, as Musk emphasized in his answer: with extreme politicians who each complain about one thing while resorting to their echo chambers, where everyone agrees with them and applauds their events, without the risk of any opposite. what they call “hate messages” bothers them a little.