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Elon Musk’s on again/off again attempts to purchase Twitter appear to be back on track. On Tuesday, the world’s wealthiest person, reversed himself and said that he would honor his orig…

What concerns me about Musk’s likely purchase is that he has said he would loosen up Twitter’s moderation policies tweeting, in April, “I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.”

I’m sure that even Musk will delete posts and suspend accounts that directly advocate violence against individuals or groups, but there are many examples of posts with “dog whistles” or other potentially inflammatory content that could lead to violence, as we saw in the runup to January 6 and continue to see on some other sites, including Donald Trump’s recent dangerous and racist post on his site Truth Social where he said that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel “has a DEATH WISH.

Since 2016, my nonprofit, ConnectSafely, has been an unpaid member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council, which regularly meets to discuss Twitter policies on topics such as “online Safety and harassment, human and digital rights, suicide prevention and mental health, child sexual exploitation, and dehumanization,” as Twitter explains in this.

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